Complex real estate.
Clearer decisions.
Brad L. Meyer helps organizations make complicated real estate decisions easier to understand, navigate, and move forward.
Trusted Guidance for Every Stage of Your Commercial Real Estate Strategy
From site selection to stakeholder alignment, Brad helps organizations make informed, confident real estate decisions.
Experience that changes how he sees the problem.
Brad L. Meyer brings more than two decades of experience across site selection, commercial brokerage, corporate real estate, acquisitions, investment, asset management, development, and public-sector environments. That breadth helps him see what different parties need, where interests align, where a deal may stall, and what needs to happen next.
Brad has worked with owners, brokers, and developers, and he has also worked inside the City of Portland and with permitting offices and municipal processes. That gives him a practical view of what happens on the other side of the approvals process: what different parties need, where a project may be getting stuck, and how to find a path forward.
Clients get senior-level real estate judgment directly from someone who understands how the entire process fits together and stays on their side of the table from the first question to the last signature.
Market Evaluation • Trade Area Analysis • Site selection • Acquisitions & development • Corporate real estate
Childcare & education • commercial & mixed-use • non-institutional multifamily
Portland and the Pacific Northwest, with national multi-market growth and site-selection experience.
Start with the business decision, not the transaction.
Sometimes the smartest real estate decision is not to make a move at all. Brad starts with the business objective, pressure-tests the assumptions, and helps determine whether a transaction is actually the right next step.
Four ways he works with clients.
Strategic Real Estate Advisory
Clarity before commitment.
Market intelligence, financial modeling, and a clear read on risk and tradeoffs before committing. Brad helps leaders see the full shape of a decision, including the issues that can become expensive later.
Site Selection & Growth Strategy
The right opportunity, not simply an available property.
Market evaluation, trade areas, site scoring, build-to-suit options, operating requirements, and business fit, for a single location or a multi-market expansion plan built to hold up over time.
Deal Navigation & Negotiation
Helping complicated deals keep moving.
Leases, acquisitions, LOIs, PSAs, redevelopment, and transaction strategy. Brad protects the client's interests while understanding what must be true for the other parties to continue moving toward a workable deal.
Development & Stakeholder Alignment
Connecting the people and decisions that have to come together.
Cross-functional alignment across owners, brokers, lenders, design and engineering teams, municipalities, and internal leadership, all pointed at the same outcome in the right sequence.
Positioning & Deal Readiness
Sometimes the problem is not finding property. It is that the market does not yet understand the business. A strong deal begins before the negotiation. Brad helps clients clearly present who they are, what they need, why they are credible, and why the opportunity should make sense to landlords, brokers, lenders, and other stakeholders.
Especially useful for unconventional or misunderstood businesses.
He has seen the deal from more than one side.
A client often arrives with what looks like a real estate problem. Usually it is also a business issue, market issue, deal issue, stakeholder issue, positioning issue, and timing issue. Seeing the whole picture is the work.
Make the complex knowable
Permitting, entitlements, municipal processes, and stakeholder requirements can feel like a black box. Brad has worked inside the City of Portland on property rights, public works, permits, right-of-way, and development requirements. That experience helps him understand what the process is asking for, what questions matter, where something may be stuck, and who needs to be involved.
“It's a process. It's knowable.”
Get to the right people faster
Knowing who actually matters to the objective, and reaching them, can save months of fragmented outreach. At one major industry conference, Brad identified the relatively small group of people who mattered to his objective and compressed months of conversations into two focused days.
The right connections accelerate everything.
Build for what comes next
Brad has repeatedly helped organizations move from one-off activity and fragmented processes toward repeatable systems, stronger pipelines, and approaches that can support more locations and more deals.
Solve today's challenge in a way that makes tomorrow's easier.
“Real estate moves at
the speed of trust.”
The best outcomes depend on understanding what different parties need, communicating clearly, and creating enough alignment to keep moving.
Brad is often the trusted advisor at the center of a complicated deal, helping owners, brokers, developers, lenders, municipalities, and internal teams understand one another, stay focused on what matters, and move the deal toward the finish line.
Especially helpful when the situation isn't standard.
Specialized & regulated businesses
Unusual utility, facility, regulatory, or operating requirements that many buildings and landlords are not set up to understand.
Multi-location growth businesses
Organizations moving from a few locations to many that need a repeatable approach rather than another one-off deal.
Education & childcare
Deep site-selection, development, and growth experience in environments where site criteria, licensing, and approvals matter.
Investors & developers
Complex projects involving multiple constituencies, public processes, and decision points that have to be sequenced well.
Owners who want a smart sounding board
Clients who do not need another large platform. They need experienced judgment available when an important question comes up.
“The most thorough real estate guidance we received on our unique business profile.”
Need a smart, experienced partner on your side?
Tell Brad about the real estate decision in front of you. If he can help, he will say how. If someone else is the right call, he will tell you that too.