Our Credibility
Gafcon, an integrated real estate development consulting firm with a regional office located in San Diego, has been providing advisory services to public agencies and private developers and investors for 19 years. Our staff consists of more than 100 economists, analysts, cost estimators, architects, urban planners, project managers and forensic specialists to deliver the most comprehensive and focused consulting services available.
Gafcon’s Real Estate Economics division brings more than 20 years of real estate research and analysis experience to public agencies, private developers and financial institutions. We are advisors specializing in matching private sector real estate opportunities with public sector land use policies. Gafcon has facilitated the planning, feasibility and development of more than 1,000 public and private sector projects throughout the United States and seven foreign countries.
When compared to competing real estate consulting firms, our feasibility analyses are not merely academic – we have actually developed and constructed hundreds of the projects we’ve studied for both private developers and public agencies. Our construction managers verify that the development plans, phasing and time schedules are feasible; our estimators ensure the cost projections are accurate and reflect the rising costs of labor and materials; and our condition surveyors uncover any hidden constraints to successful redevelopment or adaptive reuse. Because our firm often implements the development plans of private developers and redevelopment agencies by managing the construction of all types of projects, we are uniquely positioned to prepare “real world” financial proformas and structure mutually beneficial development agreements.
