Alvaro Cortes Strassburger Email & Phone Number

💌 Contact me at alvaro.cortes@ab-latam.com | 📞: +506 6058 0811 | At Cushman & Wakfield (C&W) – AB Advisory (2015, Costa Rica), we help service companies to find, analyze, select and negotiate their office spaces, in Costa Rica, and the Central American region. ►►► HOW TO BUILD A REAL ESTATE STRATEGY FOR A COMPANY?Company leaders must implement a systematic process to align corporate objectives with real estate criteria, following 4 steps:1- Alignment of Mission and Objectives: define the company's mission and its objectives, ensuring that these objectives include all the growth potential of the company.2- Define the Real Estate Solution Criteria: take the above objectives and translate them into measurable real estate criteria (costs, access to labor, daily transportation patterns, etc.)3- Qualification of the criteria: the team must qualify each of the criteria in terms of the qualitative and quantitative importance assigned to each criteria. 4- Create an interactive scorecard: to compare different locations, and make decisions based on financial and qualitative analysis, always supported by a data-driven process.►►► OUR SERVICE: Tenant Representation We guide our clients in their processes of analysis, selection and negotiation of lease / purchase contracts…including renegotiations. We optimize costs such as: Rent, Maintenance fee, Capital for remodeling granted to the client by the owner (TIA), Annual increases, etc.)►►► THREE AREAS WHERE WE CAN ADD VALUE TO YOUR BUSINESS:✅ Office opening processes (analyze, select and negotiate the option to rent or buy)✅ Downsize processes or office closures✅ Renewals or Renegotiations of contracts►►► ONCE YOU SIGN THE EXCLUSIVITY AGREEMENT WITH US, WE:1. We define the requirements of the project according to your needs 2. We develop the analysis and strategy3. We study the market4. We analyze and select the best alternatives5. We formulate, develop and finalize the negotiation strategy6. We activate our “continuous service” to the contract►►► WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT:✅ Seniority: More than 24 years of joint experience✅ Largest number of m2 of offices traded in the region✅ Closed +US$347M in transactional volume and represented +237,000 m2 in the region✅ Specialization. Our team only represents corporate Tenants & Users. ✅ Exclusivity: My team only represent the interests of our clients. My team does not represent landlords.

Listed skills include Strategic Planning, Commercial Real Estate, Architecture, Microsoft Office, and 19 others.

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  Senior Advisor

  Cushman & Wakefield | Ab Advisory

  Dec 2020 - Present - Costa Rica

  More than 2,980,000 sf (+277,000 sqm) closed, with a transaction value of over $387 million. Creating and executing the real estate strategies of fortune 500 companies such as: Microsoft, Roche, Pfizer, Kimberly Clark, DHL, National Instruments, among others; within the Central American region.Main lead of the Tenant Representation Business Unit, in charge of Transaction Management for key clients, oversight of the tenant representation team, business development and strategic development of the Tenant Rep Business Unit. Mentoring and guiding both associates and junior associates into the world of commercial real estate.