Case Studies
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Case Study: Chief Executive Officer
Management ConsultingExecutive Search and RecruitingWith its CEO of 20 years retiring, the family-owned company needed a new leader who would fit in with its values-based approach to developing, owning, and managing apartments and retail hubs....
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Case Study: Evaluating Portfolio Performance & Assessing Organizational Capabilities
Portfolio Analysis/OptimizationManagement ConsultingOrganizational ConsultingCapital StrategyPortfolio StrategyDespite a strong track record of development, a family office’s recent projects suggested that the robust economic results may have been the result of market movement more so than value creation. ...
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Case Study: Designing a Thoughtful Organizational Transition
Management ConsultingOrganizational ConsultingStrategy PlanningA multigenerational multifamily developer and operator with holdings concentrated in the mid-Atlantic was in the midst of a strategic shift: most importantly the company was expanding to a broader set of geographies and positioning the next generation ...
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Case Study: Building a National Organization Poised for Growth
Public SectorManagement ConsultingOrganizational ConsultingRCLCO was retained to help diagnose the advantages and challenges associated with the company’s unique structure and design an organizational roadmap to support the company’s growth ambitions....
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Case Study: Developing a Plan to Enter a New Market
Management ConsultingPortfolio StrategyStrategy PlanningGeographic ExpansionOne of Britain’s largest investment managers had successfully developed a model of investing in large scale mixed-use developments within major urban centers throughout the UK in partnership with local government and private developers. ...
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Case Study: Implementing a Focused, Growth-oriented Geographic Strategy
Management ConsultingPortfolio StrategyStrategy PlanningGeographic ExpansionIn 2016, IRET (now Centerspace) pivoted from a multifaceted real estate company with a mix of commercial assets, to a single-purpose multifamily REIT. ...
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Case Study: Transitioning to Raising Third-party Equity
Management ConsultingPortfolio StrategyCapital StrategyStrategy PlanningA diversified real estate investor and operator approached RCLCO to help it transition its capital structure away from deal-by-deal ventures. ...
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Case Study: Building a Best-in-class Asset Management Infrastructure
Management ConsultingOrganizational ConsultingStrategy PlanningRCLCO was retained to conduct corporate strategic planning for a private family-owned real estate holding company that had recently undergone significant leadership transition. ...
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Case Study: Understanding Residents and Creating Real-time Insights
Management ConsultingConsumer InsightOperational StrategyAn expanding multifamily owner and operator was interested in better understanding the composition of their renter base in order to inform property operations and guide future investment decisions....
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Case Study: Post-merger Support for National REIT
Single-Family RentalsManagement ConsultingCapital StrategyOrganizational ConsultingConsumer InsightOperational StrategyFollowing a large-scale acquisition, a national residential REIT ($10B+ market cap), approached RCLCO to identify opportunities to optimize the corporate cost structure while growing ancillary revenues and launching tactical initiatives to deepen custo...
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Case Study: Building a Rationalized Real Estate Process
Public SectorManagement ConsultingOrganizational ConsultingStrategy PlanningOperational StrategyA municipality with land-holdings totaling 10 square miles in one of the nation’s densest and fastest growing metropolitan areas engaged RCLCO to improve its real estate management processes and rationalize a complex organizational structure stretchi...
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Case Study: Optimizing a Vertically Integrated Organizational Structure
Management ConsultingOrganizational ConsultingStrategy PlanningA vertically integrated REIT engaged RCLCO to conduct an organizational assessment of its construction division and determine how to optimize the department’s role within the organization....
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Case Study: Executive Recruiting for a Senior Vice President of Residential Product Innovation
Management ConsultingExecutive Search and RecruitingIn an effort to make districts in Silicon Valley highly innovative, we recruited a senior team member to lead product innovation across the developments....
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Case Study: Executive Recruiting for a President of Property Management
Management ConsultingExecutive Search and RecruitingWe were tasked with hiring a President at a rapidly growing, national owner of affordable housing to run a new property management vertical....
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Case Study: Business Planning & Strategy for Double Bottom-Line Investing
Management ConsultingStrategy PlanningWorking closely with senior management and the client’s strategy team, RCLCO provided business planning services and evaluated the viability of funding an economically viable social impact strategy. ...
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Case Study: Strategic Planning Services & Asset Management Standardization
Management ConsultingCapital StrategyPortfolio StrategyRCLCO was retained to conduct corporate strategic planning for a private family-owned real estate holding company that had recently undergone significant leadership transition. ...
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Case Study: Performance Audit & Real Estate Management Assessment
Management ConsultingPortfolio StrategyRCLCO was retained to evaluate the performance of the real estate division of a large family office, which worked with RCLCO to identify core competencies and performance gaps for key real estate functions. ...
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Case Study: Strategic Planning Services for Kettler, Inc.
Management ConsultingOrganizational ConsultingStrategy PlanningRCLCO was retained to conduct corporate strategic planning at the holding company level, and then proceeded to conduct strategy plans for the two main operating divisions of the company, including the multifamily development company and the residential...
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Case Study: Strategic Planning Services for Investors Real Estate Trust
Management ConsultingOrganizational ConsultingStrategy PlanningIn 2016, IRET made the decision to pivot from a multifaceted real estate company with a mix of rental apartments, senior housing, medical office and other commercial assets, to a single-purpose multifamily REIT focused on the upper Midwestern markets. ...
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Case Study: Transwestern Corporate Strategy
Management ConsultingPortfolio StrategyOrganizational ConsultingStrategy PlanningFounded in 1978, Transwestern Property Company developed 5 million square feet of space in more than 35 institutional-quality office and industrial projects in Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio until the real estate market collapsed in the mid '8...
