Real Estate Development and Construction Practice Group
Strategic Finance and Operations for Real Estate Ventures
From land acquisition to lease-up, every phase of real estate development demands capital discipline, market insight, and operational excellence. Our professionals understand how to manage financial risk, optimize cash flow, and build investor confidence while navigating the complexities of the real estate lifecycle. Whether you're scaling your firm, launching a new project, or restructuring operations, we offer seasoned finance, operations, and HR leaders who know your world.
How We Help
We step in with the expertise and bandwidth to match your stage of growth. Our professionals help you manage investor reporting, model cash flow across project timelines, and evaluate capital structure. We work alongside your leadership team to support internal operations—from accounting and HR to systems and compliance—so you can stay focused on building and delivering profitable projects. Our fractional and interim professionals support you with:
Financial modeling and cash flow forecasting
Pro forma development analysis
Project-based accounting and fund-level reporting
Budgeting, investor reporting, and capital planning
M&A support and due diligence
Internal controls, compliance, and system improvements
Who We Serve
Established Small Developers and Contractors
As your company grows, the financial tools that got you started may no longer support your ambitions. We help you modernize reporting, improve profitability visibility, and streamline access to credit and give you the insight and support you need to scale with confidence. We can provide the insight and resources to help drive future growth,
Mid-to-Large Developers and Contractors
Juggling day-to-day operations while launching new projects can stretch your team thin. We help bridge the gap between project management and accounting—aligning systems, improving communication, and ensuring accurate, timely reporting. Our experts provide the oversight and staffing support you need to keep projects and financials moving forward, together.
Companies Experiencing Growth
Even with strong financial systems in place, shifting markets, new technologies, or regulatory changes can disrupt operations. When you need to pivot—whether restructuring, expanding to new sites, or managing unfamiliar risks—we bring seasoned expertise to assess your situation and implement solutions aligned with your goals. From project accountants to full interim teams, we help you stay agile and profitable.
Capabilities
We Advise and Assist Real Estate and Construction Companies to:
Set up accounting processes and procedures for projects and provide interim staff to handle added workload for the length of the project
Assign an accounting team that will address your daily, monthly and annual operating requirements accurately and on time.
Provide training, oversight and support to existing staff and supplement their expertise with outsourced professionals when required
Direct accounting policies and procedures of all sorts including revenue and cost recognition and work-in-process accounting
Evaluate and source financing options for new projects and liquidity needs
Prepare and present financial reporting packages to lenders, insurers, bonding companies, investors and other stakeholders
Coordinate reporting requirements with outside professionals including tax preparers and auditors
Develop compliance calendars
Process improvements to enable existing staff to spend more time supporting forward-looking decision making and less time on prior period reporting
Analyze the financial impact of changing regulations and tax policies and work with management on strategic solutions
Develop financial models for evaluating both individual projects and corporate performance for internal review and external review
Analyze costs and identify issues related to job performance and company performance
Create rolling cash forecasts and cash management systems
Develop annual budgets and long-term strategic plans
Develop systems to capture Key Metrics and Key Performance Indicators
Design and staff your accounting function with 100% outsourced consultants. This solution employs permanent part-time personnel that can work on or off-site to meet the financial operating requirements for your business. This team will be designed to be cost effective and provide the technical skills required for your financial operations
Meet the Team
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Peter Gray
Real Estate Development and Construction Practice Leader
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Anthony Froyd
Real Estate Development and Construction Practice Group Leader
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Bob Weis
Real Estate Development and Construction Practice Group Member
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Chris Chillingworth
Real Estate Development and Construction Practice Group Member
Build a High Performing Team
Whether your business is growing, transforming, or in need of change, finding the right people quickly is critical. Our recruiting services give you direct access to experienced recruiters and advisors who understand your industry, your challenges, and the kind of talent it takes to move your business forward. Whether you're filling a key executive role, backfilling staff during a transition, or building out a new team, you’ll get tailored recruiting support without the overhead of a traditional search firm.
You choose the model that fits: executive search, contingency recruiting, or interim and project-based staffing. Every search is grounded in deep operational knowledge from across the 2GO Advisory Group—so you’re not just hiring quickly, you're hiring wisely.
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Co-founded the development team that conceived and obtained entitlements for the residential community and championship golf course at Hiddenbrooke in Vallejo, California.
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Executed turnarounds for a foundering residential remolding company and a prominent real estate developer, achieving profitability shortly after taking control of the accounting and finance functions.
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Negotiated three renewable options to acquire contiguous tracts of land for large development without a cash payment to the landowners; options were sufficient to enable developer to proceed with obtaining entitlements.
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Designed and presented 18 month rolling financial statement history for management of a large subcontractor, allowing management to observe trends, monitor compliance metrics, and foresee shortfalls and surpluses.
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Designed interactive waterfall model that showed results of various scenarios in a high end residential development of spec, custom and semi-custom homes, which improved the credibility of developer and investor confidence.
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Designed queries to collect project data from various sources and consolidate into a single database that would report work in process and compare to prior periods, for two contractors that improved precision of reporting and accuracy of financial statements.
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Prepared projections for real estate developer allowing it to raise investor funds to meet cash requirements during entitlement phases.
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Prepared projections for real estate developer allowing it to raise investor funds to meet cash requirements during entitlement phases.
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Designed report for a contractor that showed loan covenant compliance at end of each close cycle to ensure loan terms were continuously met.
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