Headquartered in Atlanta, Ackerman & Co. is one of the leading full service real estate firms in the United States. The firm's expertise covers every major real estate discipline-brokerage, leasing, management, development, investment, and advisory services.
Our investment team has experience in every major property type – office, industrial, retail, hotel, land and residential – and the broad interdisciplinary expertise of Ackerman’s executive staff allow the company to nimbly shift its focus across a wide variety of investment and service opportunities. Ackerman prides itself on its ability to follow the opportunities in an ever changing market place.
Since 2002, Ackerman has profitably invested more than $500 million acquiring commercial real estate in the Southeastern United States. Most of this investment activity is undertaken with institutional capital partners that include a variety of domestic pension funds and endowments, such as Northwestern Mutual, Fidelity Investments, AEW Capital Management, and Urdang Capital Management.
The Ackerman team oversees the entire acquisition process starting with identifying a potential investment through due diligence and closing. Specific services in this acquisition process include: underwriting and modeling investment returns, operating and capital budgeting, coordinating due diligence, establishing marketing and leasing parameters, contract negotiations, and securing debt.
As a full-service firm, Ackerman is vertically integrated to help investors achieve optimized return on investments through its ability to closely operate the assets in its portfolio with on-site management that allows for strict cost control measures and in-house leasing with its professionals and their extensive network of industry contacts.
With more than four million square feet currently under management, experience has taught us that improving and then maintaining a property’s value begins with a focus on creating the best possible experience for the tenants. Our properties have average tenant retention rates of 76% and average occupancy rates of 89%. Ackerman also has reduced operating expenses an average of 6% over two years from the date we take over the project for our investors.
