Upland advises and manages the disposition process for owners of commercial real estate assets in and around New York City. Drawing upon Upland’s decades of institutional experience, the firm delivers comprehensive due diligence review, sophisticated financial modeling, and premium-quality marketing collateral. Upland utilizes a battle-tested sales process that drives buyer competition and achieves optimal pricing and terms. Unlike our competitors, all aspects of the disposition process are directly managed by Upland’s Senior Managing Partners, delivering superior quality, efficiency, and results.

We take a comprehensive approach toward helping our clients fully analyze their real estate situation and develop an optimal strategy to achieve their real estate goals. Multiple scenarios often need to be considered, such as outright sale vs. other capital strategies, including leasehold creation, recapitalization and joint ventures, and debt solutions. Upland’s senior partners have extensive experience navigating the complexities of multi-faceted real estate challenges and excel at developing creative customized solutions for our clients.

Upland Property Advisors is adept at identifying equity partners that are well suited to our clients’ investment philosophy and specific goals. We are highly experienced in negotiating recapitalization terms, including preferred equity structures, limited vs. general partnership, waterfall and promote structures, and operating agreements. We assist in the structuring of all aspects of the capital stack, including equity, preferred equity, mezzanine financing, and senior and subordinate debt.

Upland draws upon its market knowledge and negotiating skill to assist buyers in the acquisition of commercial real estate assets or partnership interests in the New York City metro area. We are notably successful in arranging off-market transactions to meet our clients’ particular investment goals, including 1031 Exchange transactions.

We assist clients in the sale of existing notes, both distressed and performing. Following a full analysis of note provisions and the underlying collateral, we aggressive market the note to a broad pool of qualified private equity and institutional investors.

As a first step in developing a real estate strategy, many owners of commercial assets or partnership interests seek a qualified Broker Opinion of Value. We have completed hundreds of these types of analyses, drawing upon our real-time market knowledge to produce sophisticated valuations that are accurate and achievable.

We can provide expert analysis, narrative, and testimony to assist in legal proceedings relating to commercial real estate assets in the New York City metro market. Cases may include partnership buyouts, ground lease market resets, collateral obligations, and the like.