Real Estate Development Consulting

Our Expertise

Simplifying the real estate development process

When it comes to complex real estate development projects, Plante Moran Realpoint, formerly Plante Moran Cresa/REIA, strives to simplify the process. Our experienced team will help you navigate the countless steps and requirements needed to maintain momentum, overcome hurdles, and mitigate risks from concept through opening.

Unsure how to make a project pencil? We assist with development strategy, feasibility analysis, due diligence and underwriting, financing strategy, and incentives. Need help engaging the right team? We can coordinate the bidding process to get the right people at the table. Having trouble navigating entitlements and permitting? Our experts can facilitate the entire process. Contact us to learn more.

Our services

Our real estate asset development consulting services include:

Development project feasibility

We offer feasibility, market research, design, and construction expertise as a full-service partner for developers and contractors, public-private partnerships, municipalities, corporate real estate teams, landowners, real estate investors, and businesses.

Financing & incentives procurement

We use our extensive network to ensure you have a wide array of competitive financing options to consider. As part of this process, we seek to maximize incentives to improve project feasibility and achieve desired return-on-investment targets.

Highest & best use analysis (redevelopment)

Our approach to determining the highest and best use of your property walks you through a process to identify opportunities for the site and assess market and project feasibility to come out with a variety of options for redevelopment.

Market strategy & studies

The right strategy will pave the road to success. Our team offers market supply and demand analysis, reasonableness opinion reports, economic impact studies, and asset positioning and valuations.

Public-private partnerships

Our expertise can ensure a strong, feasible project is conceptualized, developed, and implemented in a way that realizes the broader goals for community and economic development while remaining beneficial to the developer. Learn more.

Plante Moran Cresa and REIA have joined together as Plante Moran Realpoint

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Case Studies

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Henry Ford Health Future of Health Detroit Rendering of the Exterior of the Hospital Expansion

February 24, 2025

Henry Ford Health: Development support for the “Future of Health: Detroit” vision

Plante Moran Realpoint serves as the development coordinator in support of Henry Ford Health’s $3.3 billion “Future of Health: Detroit” vision.

Case Study / 1 min read

Street view of 11 Mile Road in Oak Park, MI, USA

March 26, 2024

Market study helps Michigan city investigate demand for real estate development

Plante Moran Realpoint helped the City of Oak Park, Mich., assess demand for a mixed-use development and commence development planning.

Case Study / 2 min read

Exterior grounds of religious congregation's home, with close-up of bench and residences

November 06, 2023

Congregation addresses aging members’ care through mission-aligned property sale

The Presentation Sisters Union property sale in San Antonio, Tex., supported the sisters’ educational mission and provided funding for retirement.

Case Study / 3 min read

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Our Team

Working with our development consultants

Having been involved with billions of dollars in developments, we understand every development is unique. Our consultants seamlessly integrate with your team to add bandwidth and provide proven processes to set your project up for success. On staff, we can pull from the expertise of architects, CPAs, engineers, real estate attorneys, construction experts, leasing experts, project managers, and leaders in every major asset class. Our breadth of resources ensures you have access to the right expertise when you need it.

Contact our team to learn more about how we can help.