Real Estate Investment Advisors

Our Expertise

Preserve, protect, and grow your real estate investments

Investing in commercial real estate is a sophisticated way to diversify your investment portfolio, hedge against inflation, generate income, and preserve capital. If you invest in real estate, or want to start investing in real estate, Plante Moran Real Estate Investment Advisors (REIA) can help you get the best results from your real estate portfolio — and mitigate risk along the way.

Our unbiased real estate investment consultants are experts at navigating the nuanced decisions you face as you develop a strategy and manage your portfolio, from buying and selling existing real estate assets to planning a new development. We deliver the insights and experience needed to help private and institutional clients preserve, protect, and grow their commercial real estate portfolios.

Interested in learning more about investing in real estate? Contact our team.

Plante Moran REIA services

Financing & Capital Markets

A key aspect of any successful investment strategy is identifying the appropriate financial structure and capital stack for each asset within your portfolio. We use our extensive network to ensure you have a wide array of competitive financing options to consider. Learn more.

Real Estate Acquisitions & Dispositions

We can assist in all aspects of the acquisition and disposition processes: buy-side real estate searches, sell-side representation, real estate due diligence and underwriting, financial modeling, transaction structuring (including oversight of joint venture structuring), 1031 like-kind exchange assistance, sale-leaseback structuring, and asset positioning. Learn more.

Real Estate Asset Management

Our team manages your real estate investments with an eye toward maximizing returns and enhancing long-term value at both the asset and portfolio level. The advice we offer is based on proven real estate expertise, extensive market knowledge, broad resources, and a disciplined process — it is not based on the fees on a transaction. Learn more.

Real Estate Investment Consulting

Our real estate investment consulting services includes development feasibility and advisory, incentive negotiation and procurement, market research studies, highest and best use analysis, asset positioning, public-private partnerships (P3s), real estate development financing, and project reasonableness opinion reports. Learn more.

Property & Real Estate Consulting for Religious Institutes

In serving religious institutes, Plante Moran REIA recognizes that discernment as to how you use your real estate resources to sustain your mission, charism, and members is essential. Our focus is on assisting you to make certain that your real estate holdings support your mission and care for members in the near term and into the future. Learn more.

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Our Work

View all Plante Moran REIA case studies

November 18, 2022

Municipality redevelops city center through $100 million public-private partnership

The City of Royal Oak engaged Plante Moran Cresa and Plante Moran REIA as a knowledgeable development advisor to help move forward a $100 million public-private partnership (P3) redevelopment of the City Center Complex.

Case Study / 1 min read

Aerial photo of Little Caesars Arena, the new home of the Detroit Red Wings and the Detroit Pistons, and Detroit, Michigan, skyline

November 14, 2022

The District Detroit & Little Caesars Arena: A mixed-use development case study

The District Detroit is a vibrant mixed-use development in the heart of Detroit, Mich. Anchored by the Little Caesars Arena, the 50-blocks encompass new construction dedicated to office, retail, residential, hospitality, and entertainment.

Case Study / 2 min read

The KONG Company Long Beach Facility Exterior

October 06, 2022

Refinance or sale-leaseback? How KONG capitalized on an unexpected real estate opportunity

During the process of refinancing a commercial loan on its West Coast distribution facility, The KONG Company received two unsolicited offers to purchase the building. Plante Moran Real Estate Investment Advisors (REIA) helped KONG evaluate the best path forward for outstanding results.

Case Study / 2 min read

Our Team

Working with our real estate investment consultants

We put your goals first and foremost by providing sound investment and real estate asset management solutions free from any conflicts of interest. Our fee structure is designed to ensure that we remain independent in our responsibility to our clients. As such, the strategy drives the transactions; the transactions do not drive the strategy.

If you invest in commercial real estate, or would like to start investing in real estate, contact our team to begin a conversation about your investment goals.