Principal-level advisory on real estate decisions.
Construa Advisory is for owners, family offices, and investors who need experienced operator-level input on specific decisions — without taking on a full PM or construction-management engagement. Independent, paid by you, accountable to you.
Six common situations.
Advisory engagements are bounded by scope, deliverable, and fee — designed for moments where one experienced operator's view changes the decision.
Acquisition evaluation
Independent technical and operating review of a property under acquisition consideration — before non-refundable money is committed.
Development feasibility
Operator-lens review of whether a proposed development pencils — with construction-cost realism, entitlement honesty, and conservative absorption assumptions.
Mid-project second opinion
Independent view on an existing project that's slipping on scope, schedule, or cost — including options for stabilization or recovery.
Portfolio review
Operator-perspective review of a portfolio of assets, including capex prioritization, repositioning candidates, and disposition logic.
JV / partnership structuring
Independent input on proposed JV or partnership structures — waterfall mechanics, governance, decision rights, and exit paths.
Dispute, defect, or delay
Pre-litigation or settlement-stage technical analysis on construction-related disputes, defects, delays, or contract-performance issues.
Defined scope, defined deliverable, defined fee.
No retainer-with-no-end. No exploratory billing. Each engagement is structured around a specific decision and a specific output.
Discovery call
30–60 minute confidential conversation to understand the decision you're working through and confirm fit.
Scope & fee proposal
Written scope with the specific deliverable, the timeline, and the fee. Hourly retainer or fixed-fee depending on the engagement.
Engagement
Direct engagement with the principal. Working sessions, document reviews, site walks — whatever the scope requires. No account-manager filter.
Decision document
Written deliverable with the recommendation, the reasoning, and the alternatives. Built to outlast the conversation it came from.
Where Construa declines an advisory engagement.
Independence is the asset. Engagements are declined when independence cannot be preserved or when the engagement is structured around a predetermined answer.
- Engagements where the client wants validation, not analysis.
- Conflicts with active River, PFE, FFE, or Apice projects.
- Reports designed to support a position already taken.
- Litigation work outside Construa's technical domain.
- Anything requiring a different professional license (legal, securities, tax).
Send the situation. We'll tell you whether advisory is the right fit.
Discovery calls are confidential and obligation-free. If we're not the right fit, we'll say so directly.