40+ years of Experience and Success

About Fifield

DEVELOPING FOR THE FUTURE​

Boutique Developers with Large-Scale Expertise

Fifield Companies is a boutique real estate developer with deep expertise in land acquisition, finance, construction management, architecture, design, marketing, operations, and management.

In our more than four decades in business, we have seen and adapted to almost every challenge in large-scale real estate development. We have executed more than $7 billion in developments with 21 million square feet of residential and office projects, comprising over 13,000 residential units and 8.7 million square feet of commercial projects. Our collaborative team allows us to be agile and reactive – employing creative solutions to overcome obstacles. The experience we’ve acquired has helped refine our process to plan and build developments that not only make sense economically, but help improve markets and leave minimal environmental impact.

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Market Strategy

Developing feasible, leading-edge communities across the country

  • Grow national presence targeting prime submarkets with high-barriers to entry
  • Identify short-term opportunities at market level and submarket level
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Development & Construction

Collaboration and peer reviews

  • Zoning entitlement relationships and expertise
  • Due diligence management
  • Collaborative relationships with architects and designers
  • Consultant selection including peer reviews of all key vendors
  • Construction management to completion
  • Contractor and subcontractor contract negotiation and close-out
  • Data oriented design development as renter preferences change and evolve

Asset Management​

An art and a science

  • Commercial and residential property management oversight
  • Trusted network of property management companies
  • Lease-up and revenue management strategy
  • Commercial tenant procurement and lease negotiation with strong local retail brokers
  • Maintain competitive advantage with quarterly property evaluations & “mark to market” valuations like our own institutional partners do
  • Leading-edge with prop tech investment
  • Asset disposition via extensive buyer and broker network
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Financial Management​

Maintaining prosperity

  • Proprietary financial models
  • Cash flow projections and sensitivity analysis
  • Full service financial statements and timely reporting
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Deal Structuring

We “live” with attorneys and capital providers

  • Complex purchase and sale agreements including joint developments and phased developments
  • Vertical subdivisions
  • Construction, mezzanine and senior loans
  • EB-5 financing
  • Joint venture partnership agreements

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