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Services:
Real Estate & Gaming Consulting
As a dominant source of strategic information related to real estate development in the Southwest, RCG offers a broad range of consulting services to the real estate and financial industries.
Our consulting work involves the full array of actors in the development process - developers, corporations, property owners, land brokers, engineers, physical/land use planners, financial institutions, investors, zoning attorneys, architects, leasing agents and property brokers.
To meet the ever-changing and complex needs of our clients, RCG's consulting services are grouped into specialized real estate service lines:
CASINO-HOTEL SERVICES. As a major resource for the gaming industry and real estate developer, our role is to determine the economic and market viability of proposed and existing casino-hotel projects. Our services include project and market feasibility and strategy development.
INDUSTRIAL SERVICES. Comprehensive and up-to-date market information is analyzed for both speculative and non-speculative industrial markets to provide our clients with development recommendations, valuations, and strategies for industrial buildings and mixed-use business/industrial parks.
LAND PLANNING. RCG specializes in generating mixed-use development concepts for large land parcels. Based on market data, projected growth, and anticipated future competition, we develop concepts that define the mix of uses, general location of uses, absorption schedules, target markets and anticipated pricing.
MASTER-PLANNED COMMUNITY SERVICES. Our active and planned community databases, up-to-date market information and customized consulting services provide bottom-line recommendations to decision-makers in the for-sale housing industry. Services include appraisal, product and pricing recommendations, site selection, supply and demand analyses, feasibility studies, target market analyses and land competitive analyses.
MULTI-FAMILY SERVICES. A continuum of services supports the apartment developer and lender throughout the development process, from the early stages of land acquisition, development concept planning, financing, appraisal, land planning and zoning, product design and marketing to disposition strategies for stabilized properties.
OFFICE SERVICES. An emerging center of economic importance, the Las Vegas office market continues to be fueled by long-term projections of population and employment growth. RCG's comprehensive and detailed analysis of metropolitan area and national absorption trends, land pricing, and employment growth supports developers, financial institutions and investors in strategic planning decisions, site selection, feasibility analysis, marketing, disposition strategies and appraisal.
RETAIL SERVICES. Absorption, vacancy, rental rates, and tenant profiles are analyzed for strip, neighborhood, community, and regional centers. Combined with our comprehensive economic and demographic capabilities, our consultants deliver powerful decision-making tools to retail developers, investors, large retailers, franchisers and financial institutions.
Regional Economics/Public Planning
RCG is at the forefront of state-of-the-art techniques in regional economic research, while our real estate consulting has injected market reality into our public planning consulting. Over the past 10 years, our professionals have completed a variety of economic research/public planning projects across most of the western United States. Currently, we focus on three broad activities.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. Includes base analyses, industry studies, development planning, and information services for development implementation. For Las Vegas, we maintain a census of all major employers and monitor national/international trends in those industries.
These databases combined with our real estate supply-side databases give us the information-based edge for economic development planning. The professionals of RCG have completed a variety of economic-base analyses. Our economic development implementation services include the application of demographic, economic and real estate supply information to a variety of economic development problems, including industry targeting, advertising and marketing strategies.
REGIONAL ECONOMIC RESEARCH. Based on urban and regional modeling and economic/demographic projections. RCG is a leader in providing projections of population, employment, household income for a variety of public and private sector clients having a broad range of needs.
URBAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES. A focus on the public side of urban growth and community development issues, including land use planning, infrastructure/capital facilities planning, public services planning and economic/fiscal impact analysis. RCG's clients include the full range of public bodies in the Southwest - regional commissions, state agencies, counties, cities and other local jurisdictions.
RCG's strength lies in our rigorous application of analytical techniques - population forecasting and public needs assessment for infrastructure, the fiscalbalance sheet for private development - coupled with the market realities from our private sector real estate consulting.
Summary of Products
In addition to its advisory services, RCG offers several information products. These include quarterly market surveys of office, industrial and retail markets, regional profiles and a monthly real estate newsletter.
QUARTERLY MARKET SURVEYS. These reports are prepared in conjunction with Colliers International and focus on existing and projected supply/demand balance in the office, retail and industrial markets in the Las Vegas Valley. The supply analysis deals on a building-specific basis, including existing, under construction and planned projects. The demand analysis contains absorption estimates tied to region-specific economic and demographic trends. Synthesizing supply and demand conditions provides the context in which proposed developments can be meaningfully evaluated.
METRO AREA PROFILES. This product provides an integrated view of metropolitan area trends and patterns. They provide a comprehensive view of economic and demographic forces, the institutional/political context, existing and projected market conditions and areas of significant development opportunity (or liability) in a given region.
SOUTHERN NEVADA REAL ESTATE MONTHLY. A dynamic publication providing comprehensive news and analysis on everything from office and industrial to retail and residential transactions. The newsletter is a direct mail subscription-based publication targeting key industry decision-makers throughout Southern Nevada.
For More Information
John M. Restrepo, Principal
3960 Howard Hughes Parkway, Ste. 130
Las Vegas, Nevada 89169
Tel.: (702) 967-3188
Fax: (702) 967-3196
E-mail: jrestrepo@rcg1.com
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