Commercial Real Estate Advisory

The rigor of an institution, the alignment of a partner.

Alma Real Estate provides integrated portfolio management to institutional investors, family offices, private equity, and foundations. We bring strategy, administration, and asset management together under one senior point of view, with the discipline of an institutional platform and the alignment owners value most.

Experience
20+ Years
Clients
Institutional · Family Office · Private Equity · Foundations

The approach

Connected disciplines, one point of view.

Most owners get strategy from one provider, reporting from another, and asset management from a third, then spend their own time reconciling the gaps. Alma brings all three together under a single senior point of view.

Every engagement is led at the senior level and centered on actionable insights, the specific decisions and next moves that keep the portfolio on plan.

What we do

Integrated portfolio management, built around your objectives.

Alma brings three connected disciplines together, strategy, administration, and asset management, so your portfolio is guided by one coherent point of view rather than handed between disconnected providers. We start from your priorities, assess where the portfolio stands today, and align the plan to where you want it to go.

Strategy

Portfolio Strategy & Advisory

Performance-driven strategy with the financial analysis behind every recommendation, from a single asset to the full portfolio.

  • Acquisition and disposition underwriting
  • Hold, sell, and refinance analysis
  • Investment memos, SWOT analysis, and market studies
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Administration

Portfolio Administration & Reporting

The reporting and operating discipline institutional capital expects, delivered turnkey by a senior team that integrates with your operation from day one.

  • Investor reporting with NCREIF and GIPS alignment
  • Portfolio management and performance analysis
  • Yardi setup, cleanup, and process design
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Management

Asset & Transaction Management

Hands-on management across the hold period, keeping each asset on plan and ready when it is time to act.

  • Asset management plans and business plan resets
  • Repositioning and value-add execution
  • Valuation review and transaction support
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People
Every engagement is led at the senior level by someone who has run institutional portfolios.
Process
Institutional controls and reporting standards, applied to portfolios of any size.
Data
Analytics and clear dashboards that turn portfolio data into decisions you can act on.

Where we work

Depth across the sectors that institutions actually hold.

Sector knowledge is not interchangeable. Alma's experience is concentrated in the property types that make up institutional portfolios, including the operational nuance that separates a clean deal from a costly one.

Healthcare & Medical Office
Net Lease
Industrial
Multifamily
Seniors Housing
Retail
Hospitality
Data Centers
Self Storage
Education
A
April Thompson Founder & Managing Director

Leadership

Founded and led by an institutional portfolio manager.

April founded Alma after more than twenty years inside institutional commercial real estate, spanning portfolio management, asset management, investor relations, and fund operations. She has managed and reported on multibillion-dollar portfolios for demanding investors, including sovereign wealth funds and endowments.

She built Alma to bring that level of work to owners, managers, and private equity clients who want institutional rigor without the overhead and distance of a large firm. The standards stay the same from the first call to the final deliverable.

Credentials

· Florida Real Estate Broker · BK3085901
· CCIM
· Yardi Voyager Certified Partner
· Cornell CRE Course Facilitator
· MBA, University of Florida
· BS Finance, Florida State University

Track record

Senior roles at firms that set the standard in their sectors.

WelltowerSeniors housing & medical Kayne AndersonReal estate advisors RendinaHealthcare real estate CrowdStreetPortfolio management

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