What we do

Leading Property Group offers real estate sales, property management and leasing services.

The Leading Property Group is specialized in real estate development, resort management, financing, restructuring, repositioning, assisting companies in growth processes, and asset management, with a focus on the hospitality tourism sector in the Caribbean and Latin America.

  • Assist clients in identifying appropriate and desirable assets for purchase
  • Work with or represent clients in acquisition processes on due diligence, business plans, financing, negotiation and closing of transactions
  • Help clients put together a team of operating companies, independent engineers, contractors, appraisers, accountants and tax advisers with the strongest talents for the location and specific relevant experience
  • Work with or represent clients in acquisition processes on due diligence, business plans and financial modeling, negotiation and closing of transactions
  • Assist in identifying and brining in additional equity participants if necessary
  • Source and negotiate debt financing
  • Help clients organize and prepare due diligence materials and data rooms for the use of interested parties
  • Work with clients to prepare historical and forecasted financial information and business valuation scenarios
  • Carry out sales process to target, identify and bring in qualified potential buyers
  • Assist and in some cases, represent clients through the sales process with potential buyers including initial site visits, information exchanges, structuring deals, negotiations, and closing

 

Whom do we work for in acquisitions, divestitures and sales?
  • Owners of existing properties, whether they be multiple or single properties or entire multi-property companies
  • Institutional investors, funds, or creditors that either hold one or more properties in the Caribbean, Mexico, Latin America region and wish to exit, or wish to enter or grow in the region through carefully targeted opportunities
  • Family owned or closely held property owners needing to sell for generational or other reasons
  • Creditor banks needing to dispose of assets

Leading’s clients are business owners with companies that are growing yet need outside expertise to reach the next level as well as owners of existing businesses or properties that need to inject new dynamism into their entities.

The LPG team can help these clients reach optimal results from their assets with its ability to:
  • Assess the existing situation of the company
  • Evaluate its assets, market position and revenue streams
  • Quantify and characterize its funding sources
  • Develop and articulate a solid business plan
  • Assist owners and managers with implementation
  • Think outside of the box to bring in new alliances with unique capabilities to improve client’s results
LPG works for business owners and developers that require equity and / or debt financing by:
  • Evaluating the existing funding sources for the client
  • Analyzing its asset values, market position and revenue streams
  • Building a comprehensive financial model and test various solutions and their effect on shareholder value
  • Developing and articulate with owners a solid business plan
  • Preparing an information package for potential providers
  • Going out to the market and seek the most competitive financing sources, terms and conditions
  • Representing ownership in negotiations and execution
Leading Property Group’s activities in development include:
  • Help clients, who already own a site, devise the appropriate strategy to develop their property
  • For clients who do not presently own their site, Leading Property Group provides assistance to seek out and acquire the most advantageous location
  • Create and refine thorough development plans
  • Bring together a development team combining the strongest talents for the specific context
  • Formulate rigorous financial models
  • Obtain debt and / or equity financing
  • Oversee project execution for key stakeholders
  • Provide management review and expertise

 

Whom do we work for in the development here?
  • Land owners seeking to put their land assets to work
  • Investors interested in developing real estate
  • Hotel and resort companies seeking appropriate local or regional developers for their brands
  • Funds, banks or other institutional owners of property
The team at Leading Property Group works with clients who are:
  • Property owners who feel that their assets are underperforming
  • Hospitality chains desiring to refocus a product to a more profitable niche within today’s marketplace, or seeking to help owners improve the product Lenders who need to have a hotel or property perform better in order to repay loans
  • Hospitality chains needing a third party to assist a property owner in understanding and undertaking needed property improvements

 

Leading’s activities related to repositioning include:
  • Analyze the existing product or property within its market
  • Explore broad options for best and highest use
  • Involve new stakeholders and team members who bring needed strengths to the table
  • Create the new re-positioning plan
  • Test the plans with financial modeling
  • Obtain debt and / or equity financing
  • Oversee project execution for key stakeholders
  • Provide resort and vacation club management services making sure that this unique combination enhances all the financial metrics. Leading has the structure to provide all aspects of the management cycle including sales, marketing, accounting, collection and reservation services.
In workouts and restructurings, Leading Property Group works with:
  • In workouts and restructurings, Leading Property Group works with:
  • Developers and ownership groups to provide expertise on handling debt problems
  • Lenders in need of solid understanding of what options can be implemented to best recover value and on putting plans into place
  • Banks or other institutional owners of property in the context of a workout or restructuring negotiation
  • Institutional investors and lenders who need special expertise to manage a portfolio or single asset over time to maximize value

 

Leading Property Group can help its clients in this area with the team’s combined expertise in order to:
  • Assess the existing situation and parties at stake
  • Understand the assets and revenue streams
  • Quantify and characterize the liabilities and obligations
  • Develop a workable and equitable plan
  • Bring in new parties with specific relevant skills to add new value to the enterprise
  • Rally the affected parties and stakeholders around the strategy and execute decisively

Successful transactions depend on the ability to assemble a strong team that works efficiently and effectively together across all functions. We at LPG understand that developing long-lasting relationships is a vital element to our success. Since very early in our company and core team history , our relationships have included such prominent firms as KSL Capital Partners, Nexxus Capital, Terranum, Gam Capital, Alpha Wealth Solutions, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts, Marriott Hotels and Resorts, The Trump Organization, Warner Media, Playa Hotels and Resorts, Apple Leisure Group, Karisma Hotels and Resorts, Cap Cana S.A and other valuable industry partners

Our experience