Recap Advisors

"Recap provides top notch service and exemplary work product. Their extensive knowledge of real estate and current trends in the industry allow them to present a detailed and thorough report that helps facilitate the closing of a transaction."

Andrew J. Weil
Executive Managing Director
Centerline Capital Group

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Representative Clients

We've worked with non-profits, partnerships, and government agencies across the country. Here are a few representative clients.

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Team

Ethan Handelman
Philip B. Silva
Thacher Tiffany

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Contact

Ethan Handelman
T: 617.338.9484 x218

Strategic Planning

Make long-term decisions that sustain assets and social outcomes

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Organizations may have socially beneficial affordable housing goals but need help in negotiating a difficult and often contentious environment.

A socially beneficial goal isn’t enough: you also have to deliver results

Organizations may have various goals: making a greater number of socially conscious loans, preserving existing affordable housing, or establishing long-term plans for providing affordable, elderly, or supportive housing. To achieve these goals, organizations must anticipate future changes in the environment and deploy their existing resources effectively.The results must be financially sound, politically acceptable, and realistically implementable.

Guidance must come from someone who understands both the economic and political aspects

For an organization to be effective in reaching its goals, it needs to:

  • Set goals and devise measurable objectives
  • Determine its highest-value actions
  • Anticipate and move to head off difficulties
  • Understand the long-term financial picture
  • Comprehend the entire system of which its efforts are a part.

Organizations seldom have the resources to perform all these tasks themselves.

Recap Advisors helps large non-profits and social organizations use their resources most effectively to achieve their goals

Recap has helped many organizations to reach their goals. It can make the complex affordable housing environment comprehensible, analyse and interpret complex data, design a plan to reach the goal, and then advise on course corrections. It has

  • Guided the development of a national nonprofit sponsor and preservation entity in its operations, transactions, and plans for growth.
  • Analyzed the profitability and mission success of a public housing authority to produce property, portfolio, and business-line recommendations.
  • Advised a national nonprofit intermediary on the creation of an acquisition facility to assist member nonprofits in preserving at-risk affordable housing.

Service elements

  • Complete survey of the business environment
  • Interviews with key executives to establish goals
  • SWOT analysis
  • Strategic recommendations
  • Ongoing support and advice