MetroIntelligence Real Estate Advisors is a full-service real estate and land use consulting firm specializing in assisting clients minimize risk while maximizing opportunities.
At MetroIntelligence, we tap our team's decades of experience having worked for some of the real estate industry's largest land and commercial property developers, homebuilders, lenders and consulting firms on development projects throughout the United States.
With today's technologies and our unique but comprehensive strategic alliances, we can leverage that same experience, combine it with lower overhead, and provide you with lender-quality feasibility studies, market overviews and opportunity analyses at a very competitive price whether it's residential, commercial, industrial, hospitality or some mix of all uses.
We don't run a large 'consulting factory' here in order to keep a large staff busy and pay for expensive overhead -- each engagement we do is engineered to your specifications while saving you money.
We can also provide peer-reviewing services to analyze your existing consulting studies and determine whether or not we'd arrive at different conclusions and why.
MetroIntelligence: Providing Experience and Objectivity.
Beacon Economics is a research and consulting firm specializing in analyses of real estate markets, local economic development, and public and private policy issues. Beacon Economics organizes economic forecast conferences and advises city governments, financial institutes, real estate firms, and businesses. We are available for public speaking and for litigation support.
Beacon Economics contributes to the understanding of economic development issues and local regional economies in California and other western states. In addition to completing contract research targeted to specific economic development issues, Beacon Economics distributes outlook documents in conjunction with regional economic events and advises businesses and government organizations in public speaking engagements and private conferences.
In addition to these products our staff also produce white papers on topics important to the state and a monthly regional employment report.
With offices in both Northern and Southern California, we are well positioned to cover local and regional markets throughout the western United States.
HousingIntelligence is the culmination of a dream to create the kind of resource we, a team of market researchers, repeatedly wished we had access to as we worked with builders, developers and investment firms making decisions regarding residential housing investments.
We decided to create a site that would be for us and by us, with “us” being the analytically oriented “geeks” in this industry. We also think we’ll have some appeal to those special few executives who realize how intelligence created by geeks can significantly impact performance and serving the end consumer.
We know that professionals who are interested in understanding housing and the new home business have limited options for getting insightful and reliable information. Information is guarded by a few old-school monolithic companies who insist on only selling their information to clients at steep prices and with bundled consulting with even steeper price tags.
While numerous real estate web sites do exist, they all have an orientation towards consumers and realtors. Outside of these sites, limited information exists online other than that which is connected to major media companies or the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).
Our team has seen the powerful insights that come from applying customer survey data with applied economic and market demographic data. By being a small, independent company, we can more aggressively pursue innovations to improve housing intelligence.
Hanley Wood Market Intelligence is America's largest and most trusted source for point-of-sales contract information for the new home industry.
Because this data is collected monthly (in most markets) and based upon sales contracts that represent future closings, HWMI data is the most forward-looking data source in the markets it covers. In addition, the company updates residential development proposed for development through various city and county offices each quarter.
HWMI is a division of Hanley Wood, LLC, a leading media company serving housing and construction.
RealFacts is a research organization and database publisher specializing in the multifamily housing market throughout the western and southwestern United States as well as the states of Florida, Illinois, Missouri, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. Every quarter, we collect data on investment-grade complexes of 100 units or more including current rents, occupancy rates, any changes in ownership or management as well as any sales or loan details.
With our database of over 12,200 properties, we regularly track 2.6 billion square feet of rental space in more than 3 million apartment units and have a detailed 15-year history for specific complexes based on 74 quarters of consecutive updates. In addition, we have monitored 4,000 sales transactions over the past four years.
Our data, research and analysis is widely used, respected, and relied upon by owners, developers, brokers, management companies, lenders, consultants and trade associations, who collectively generate 2,000 reports using our proprietary software each week.
Our insights frequently form the basis of articles in the the trade media and, to name but a few, Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Orange County Register and San Jose Mercury News.
Philip Simmons and The Simmons Group professionals form one of the most efficient and experienced development teams in the industry. Simmons has served as President of the Urban Division of John Laing Homes, the second largest private homebuilder in the country, as well as Development Officer for Archstone-Smith, AvalonBay Communities, and Watt Industries. David Gaulton, who also serves as President of the highly regarded firm of Pacific Development Services, heads up The Simmons Group's construction management operations. Gaulton brings a depth of project management excellence to the team that is rarely seen in the development industry.