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Charles Dunn Company is truly a full-service firm with a dynamic delivery platform that seamlessly allows our specialized divisions to serve our clients’ diverse and changing needs. Our hands-on and personalized approach with each client – from private individuals, mid-cap investment firms, institutions and banks – has been at the forefront of our business since our inception.
Our occupier specialists analyze tenants’ space requirements and real estate business objectives to formulate the ideal real estate solution. Tenant representation experts study market conditions, renegotiate existing leases and relocate or expand companies into new facilities.
Our market knowledge, understanding of how to position a property in the marketplace and ability to expose a property to as many tenants and brokers as possible ensure maximum value for a landlord’s asset. Our landlord representation experts also identify target users, qualify tenants, develop marketing and leasing strategies, and collaborate with property managers, construction managers, architects and designers.
Charles Dunn Company provides both acquisition and disposition services to our investment property owners. Whether it’s raw land, office, industrial/distribution, multi-family or retail property, Charles Dunn Company’s market knowledge and invaluable experience, coupled with state-of-the-art resources and our access to qualified investors and exchange buyers, ensure clients achieve the highest value possible for their real estate investments.
Charles Dunn Company delivers comprehensive development advisory services to support both developers and investors. From site selection and entitlements to design coordination, construction management and financing, we advise clients through every step of the process.
Our valuation and advisory professionals possess a keen understanding of current and future market conditions, comparable properties and key financial data that are fundamental to a sound assessment of an asset’s value. This insight is critical as the analysis forms the basis for financing, risk management, and due diligence. Charles Dunn Company’s experts deliver accurate and timely valuation advice and services, including: asset and portfolio valuation, highest and best use analysis, feasibility studies, due diligence and underwriting, and property tax appeals, and discounted cash flow analysis.
Our skilled managers think as owners and use their entrepreneurial expertise to find effective solutions to all property-related issues so the goals and needs of our clients and tenants are met. Our staff is supported by state-of-the-art resources that help save time, minimize costs, and increase productivity.
We offer a comprehensive range of facility management services for corporate and government clients. Our company’s size and presence in the Western United States enables us to leverage our purchasing power and, thereby provide the lowest possible cost for supplies and services to facilities we manage, while still providing a personal level of care to our clients.
We develop and implement customized strategies for third party portfolios that focus on value creation through proactive management, aggressive leasing, and efficient operations. With a depth of marketing and management expertise at our disposal, we can deliver superior service for different property types, from multifamily and industrial to office and retail.
We offer expertise in all phases of construction, project management and administration for local, regional and national projects of all sizes. The attention to detail we employ to each service enables us to deliver superior service to asset managers, architects, and engineers representing both individual and institutional owners.
We possess extensive experience providing knowledgeable and neutral third party individuals to serve as court appointed receivers. We manage and administer a broad range of asset classes, including financial assets and real property. Our Property Management Division will work with the receiver in executing duties as established by the court pending the resolution of the dispute between the lender and owner. Additionally, experts from the Brokerage Division can recommend disposition strategies for the receivership property.
We’ve built a strong reputation for providing accurate and timely reports and budgets on either a cash or accrual basis. Our innovative systems not only allow comprehensive financial and management reporting in any format on multiple hardware and software platforms, they also help clients by reducing time, minimizing costs and increasing productivity.
We source funding in both equity and mezzanine lending for small- and large-scale projects. We’re active in financing ground-up development, as well as purchase transactions and refinancing. In addition, our Capital Markets Group provides sophisticated structured finance solutions for both our owner and occupier clients.
We’re not only frontrunners in the growing distressed assets business, it’s been a core practice of Charles Dunn Company for 40 years and many economic cycles. Whether in an advisory, managerial, or transactional capacity, our firm has a proven track record of maximizing property value, mitigating further deterioration of an asset’s value and repositioning distressed assets.
Our Construction Management team offers expertise in all phases of construction, project management and administration for local, regional and national projects of all sizes. The attention to detail we employ to each service enables us to give superior service to tenants and owner occupiers, as well as asset managers, architects and engineers representing both individual and institutional owners.
We have a successful track record of generating thousands in saving for our clients by formulating creative strategies and out of the box thinking to reduce value across all property types.
Specialties
We continue to prove our local market knowledge and ability to develop and implement successful leasing, sales and management strategies. Whether it be for a high-rise office tower, office park, multi-tenanted building, education facility, or mixed use project, tenants and landlords achieve superior results through Charles Dunn Company’s office brokerage and management experience.
Our experienced team of multi-family professionals provide a full range of management and disposition services for third-party owners. Charles Dunn Company has completed over 1,000 apartment sales in Southern California since we were established in 1921. Additionally, our skilled property managers consistently and proactively seek solutions to increase occupancy, minimize expenses and maximize income for our clients.
From site acquisition and disposition to build-to-suit planning, management and leasing, Charles Dunn Company provides its clients with a high level of professional and personalized service. Each brokerage and management expert has a keen understanding of logistics, warehousing, distribution and manufacturing users’ needs.
Charles Dunn Company has considerable experience and success with the sale, leasing, management, and advisory of retail properties. Retail assignments include shopping centers, strip malls, pad sites, and individual stores. Our in-depth knowledge of the retail market enables us to improve a property’s physical and financial status, as well as match buyers with sellers and tenants with landlords.
Our land sales experts guide every aspect of a project from site selection to entitlements, approvals, inspections and development. Charles Dunn Company combines experience in land usage with state-of-the-art tools to determine zoning, demographics and tax information. We also leverage a powerful network of contacts throughout the development community and across governmental agencies. The result is a thorough analysis of the site, an informed recommendation for the highest and best use of the property, and the ability to assist in all phases of the project.
As part of the middle market, Charles Dunn Company intimately understands the goals and concerns of companies within this emerging segment. We continue to seek out new and innovative ways to serve our middle market clients. We identify new investment opportunities for both our domestic and international clients. We’ve expanded business lines such as the Special Assets Group, to help clients in turbulent times. Our focus is simple, but deliberate: growth, service, innovation and collaboration.
Charles Dunn Company operates one of the largest inbound Asian investor and management practices in the Western United States. We speak more than 15 languages to serve international clients investing in U.S. properties. Our extensive coverage spans Asia–from China to Japan, Korea to Indonesia, the Philippines and beyond.