Real Estate Advisory Services

Real Estate Strategies Corporation advises CFOs, Management, and Boards at public, private, private equity companies, and tax-exempt organizations, in achieving greater operational and financial excellence and in maximizing enterprise value. Real Estate Strategies Corporation provides advisory, guidance, planning, and execution services to enterprise and middle market corporate occupants. The Firm delivers strategies to matrix and other organizations, whether public, private, or tax-exempt. Its services focus on aligning real estate with growth or right-sizing objectives, in driving operating and financial efficiencies, and in support of complicated and simple business initiatives.

Andrew applies sophisticated real estate expertise and decades of experience in achieving his clients’ business objectives, areas, such as:

  • Buy & sell side M&A due diligence and support initiatives, corporate restructures, and business exit strategies
  • Business transformation and turnaround strategies
  • Complex business and real estate transaction strategy
  • Planning and executing facility portfolio rationalization and optimization strategies
  • Identifying and capturing liquidity
  • Mitigating operating, financial, and real estate risk
  • Supporting complex financial and operating objectives
  • Transaction restructuring
  • Facility acquisitions and dispositions
  • Transaction planning, negotiation, and execution
  • Subject matter expertise, expert witness testimony, litigation support

Real Estate Strategies Corporation serves companies with multi-function regional or geographically dispersed portfolios or single facilities, including:

  • Leased or owned facilities
  • Office, distribution, manufacturing, technology, retail facilities, and land
  • All industries
  • North America and global markets
  • No-cost Pro Bono Real Estate Guidance and Services to bona fide US and Canada based charitable organizations
  • Real Estate Strategies Corporation provides real estate transaction execution as a means of ensuring the credibility of its recommendations or procures additional service providers via Transaction Services Procurement when our clients’ preferences dictate an alternate approach.

Andrew B. Zezas, Strategist & CEO

Andrew.Zezas@RealStrat.com I 201 906 8964

Andrew B. Zezas is a proven leader, a corporate real estate industry and business influencer, and a client-results-driven executive. Andrew is a well-known subject matter expert, who is frequently called upon to provide insights and experience-based guidance on various real estate and related topics. As founder and CEO of Real Estate Strategies Corporation (“RealStrat”), Andrew leads a team of real estate executives, CFOs, and other highly accomplished individuals in delivering a unique approach to solving the operating, financial, and real estate needs of RealStrat’s clients. For more than three decades, enterprise and middle market company leaders and real estate executives have relied on Andrew to provide business and real estate guidance, create strategy, and lead sophisticated acquisitions and dispositions of occupied corporate facilities regionally, in the Americas, and globally.

Throughout Andrew’s career, he has sourced, secured, led, and completed billions of dollars in transactions for public and private companies in multiple industries around North America, and across multiple property types, including manufacturing, distribution, technology, and office properties. Andrew is licensed for real estate in New Jersey, has previously held licenses in eight other states, has represented the North America real estate interests of companies from 19 countries, and has completed engagements in:

  • 46 U.S. states
  • 6 Canadian provinces
  • 5 countries

Andrew draws on his extensive business and senior executive relationships in identifying emerging commercial real estate trends and successfully cultivating new opportunities on his clients’ behalf.

Andrew has a proven track record in working through matrix organization structures in North America, Europe, and Asia based companies, ensuring continuity, smooth operations, precise reporting, and positive results in complicated and sophisticated real estate transactions. He maintains an extensive executive network comprised of regional and national C-level executives, real estate experts, and others.

Andrew is a celebrated business and real estate leader and a highly skilled and dynamic speaker, regularly leading discussions in small groups and those measured in the hundreds of attendees. In addition to his extensive real estate knowledge and experience, he is frequently tapped by executives to provide career, transition, and other advice. His LinkedIn profile includes approximately 20,000 executive connections. Andrew has honed his written communication skills as Publisher and Senior Editor of CFO Intelligence magazine and other business publications.
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