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M&A Due Diligence Is Key in Today’s Competitive Housing Market

by Don Walker June 26, 2018

During the last housing downturn, our national Consulting team helped restructure billions of dollars in bad debt. Since then, we have been busy using the same market feasibility and financial analysis skills to help builders, developers, and building product manufacturers …

Single-Family Rental Industry Act 2: Build-to-Rent Taking Center Stage

by Don Walker & Rick Palacios Jr May 21, 2018

The single-family rental (SFR) space has quickly quieted skeptics and scaled into an institutional asset class. Build-to-rent (B2R) is now playing an emerging role in the industry’s evolution. In less than a decade, Progress Residential, Tricon American Homes, Front Yard …

M&A Heating Up

by Don Walker April 3, 2017

2017 is shaping up to be a big year for acquisitions. We have been very busy helping both buyers and sellers with their market due diligence and cash flow forecasting for multiple recapitalization, IPO, and M&A transactions that have already …

Building Product Manufacturers: A mitigated strategy to invest in the distressed real estate market.

by Don Walker March 15, 2012

We have been diving deeper into the Building Product Manufacturer space of the past year in order to provide our clients with a broader picture of the overall housing market. It has become clearer to us that this space offers …

Lot Price Rules of Thumb Get Investors into Trouble

by Don Walker September 2, 2011

A lot-to-home-price ratio is one tool used by investors, builders, and developers to quickly estimate the value of finished lots and raw land. It is a useful “rule of thumb” calculation that should be done after property-specific cash flows have …