Transaction diligence
Identify material property conditions, environmental findings, immediate needs, and future capital exposure before acquisition or financing.
Construction & real estate due diligenceNational Reach. Local Insight.
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Investors & Asset Managers
Independent condition, environmental, construction, and capital information for acquisitions, business plans, and operating portfolios.
Your perspective
Technical work shaped around the responsibility you carry.
Investment and asset-management teams need technical information that can be compared across assets without stripping away property-specific context. The work must support both the immediate transaction and the longer ownership strategy.
KOW helps organize physical condition, environmental exposure, active construction, and capital requirements into a consistent decision framework. Portfolio coordination provides one point of accountability while regional professionals bring local field knowledge to each assignment.
Where KOW enters
Before closing, during the work, and through the hold.
Business-plan execution
Support renovation, construction, repositioning, and repair programs with independent progress and condition information.
Portfolio planning
Normalize priorities, timing, and assumptions across assets so capital decisions can be evaluated at both building and portfolio levels.
What matters
Built around the questions you have to answer.
Comparable findings across a portfolio
Capital priorities separated by timing and consequence
Transaction and ownership context
Material issues easy to find and trace
Questions to answer
What the report should make clear.
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Which findings could affect valuation, negotiation, financing, or the business plan?
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How should immediate risk and longer-term capital needs be prioritized?
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Are active construction and renovation programs tracking against approved scope, budget, and schedule?
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Can findings and cost assumptions be compared reliably across the portfolio?
A useful deliverable
What the report should do for your team.
Support the investment thesis
Connect physical, environmental, construction, and capital findings with the proposed hold, improvement plan, financing, and disposition assumptions.
Normalize without erasing context
Use comparable terminology, timing, cost conventions, and priority definitions while preserving what is specific to each asset.
Separate risk from opportunity
Distinguish conditions that threaten the plan from work that may improve performance, resilience, operations, or long-term value.
Keep every roll-up traceable
Make portfolio summaries lead back to the property report, source observation, assumption, responsible party, and next action.
Proposal and kickoff
What to send at the start.
You do not need every item before contacting KOW. Share what is available, identify what is still coming, and flag the date the work must support.
Asset roster with addresses, property types, ownership entities, contacts, and transaction or business-plan dates
Required service by asset, intended users, reliance, report format, and portfolio terminology
Acquisition, financing, hold, renovation, operating, or disposition assumptions relevant to the technical work
Available property records, prior reports, capital plans, budgets, schedules, and known conditions
Program-level priority, timing, and cost conventions to be applied across the portfolio
Communication, status reporting, material-issue escalation, draft review, and final-acceptance responsibilities
Priority services
Expertise for the work ahead.
Property Condition Assessments
Property condition reporting that identifies material deficiencies, immediate repairs, and expected replacement needs for financing, acquisition, and capital planning.
Explore service Capital Needs AssessmentsA forward-looking schedule of major repairs and replacements based on observed condition, expected useful life, program requirements, and the planning period.
Explore service Phase I ESAEnvironmental due diligence that reviews property history, regulatory information, site observations, and interviews for recognized environmental conditions.
Explore service Desktop & Peer ReviewsRecords-based environmental screening and third-party report review for preliminary decisions, portfolio triage, and focused transaction questions.
Explore service Loan MonitoringIndependent site observations and draw review for lenders tracking work in place, requested funds, remaining cost, schedule, and change activity.
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