Eastdil Secured

Eastdil Secured is a global real estate investment bank that was established in 1967 in New York City. The firm specializes in uniquely combining commercial real estate expertise with capital markets knowledge to deliver comprehensive investment banking services focused on real estate. Recognized as the original real estate investment bank, Eastdil Secured provides independent advice from a global perspective. The company's core mission is to create value for its clients through creative and actionable ideas, aiming to be a relevant and trusted advisor in the commercial real estate capital markets.

The firm operates as a discreet and trusted advisor, prioritizing long-term relationships over single transactions. Eastdil Secured emphasizes a collaborative and intelligence-driven team environment, operating with a high degree of internal connectivity and trust. The company invests in its people, fostering their growth and empowerment at all levels. As a privately held firm with significant employee investment, Eastdil Secured provides independent advice and strategic guidance, ensuring its objectives remain fully aligned with its clients. The firm's culture is based on leadership, teamwork, and innovation, utilizing a salary-and-bonus structure, similar to Wall Street and financial firms, to promote collaboration rather than a commission-based system.

Eastdil Secured offers a wide range of services, including M&A and corporate advisory, property sales, joint ventures, capital raises, debt placement, structured credit, net lease, and loan sales. The firm's property sales team provides unbiased advisory services for a broad range of asset types throughout major markets worldwide. Eastdil Secured also assists clients with joint ventures and capital raises, leveraging an extensive network of leading domestic and international institutional investors to execute complex transactions. With offices in major cities globally, including London, Frankfurt, Tokyo, and Dubai, the firm serves a diverse clientele of institutional investors, real estate owners, and developers.

Among its diverse asset classes, Eastdil Secured includes student housing within its areas of expertise. The firm's global, fully integrated team shares extensive structuring experience, real estate knowledge, and capital market insights to provide advice and execution across all real estate asset classes, which encompasses student housing. This focus allows the company to align strategic capital partners, investment strategies, and transaction structures with the operating objectives of its clients to unlock and maximize value on every transaction within the student housing sector. The firm's expertise extends to multifamily and housing more broadly, further supporting its capabilities in the student accommodation market.

Eastdil Secured has been a prominent entity in real estate investment banking for over half a century, building its expertise into a knowledge franchise recognized as a dominant force in commercial real estate. The firm distinguishes itself by uniquely combining capital markets and real estate expertise, offering clients outstanding advice and execution across all major markets, property types, and transaction forms. The company's platform integrates conventional real estate advisory and brokerage with the corporate finance and capital markets expertise of an investment bank. This approach allows Eastdil Secured to create custom-crafted strategies for its clients, maximizing opportunities through unparalleled advisory services and individually-tailored structures. The firm's non-commission compensation structure is designed to foster a team-oriented environment, benefiting clients through coordinated and responsive service that emphasizes the collective formation and deployment of knowledge, experience, and relationships.