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Witten Advisors LLC is a market advisory firm specializing in the major apartment markets across the United States. The firm's mission is to support apartment developers, investors, owners and lenders in making market-smart investment decisions in the ongoing course of their businesses.

Founded by Ron Witten in 2001, the company offers an unmatched blend of a) 30 years' experience in apartment market data and analysis with b) an understanding of the business of apartment developers, equity investors, owners and lenders. Applying this combination of market research expertise and business insight, Witten Advisors helps clients plan their acquisition and development ventures for the right markets, optimally timed for market success.

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While the risk and reward scenario varies from developer to owner to investor to lender, each stakeholder shares these realities:

√ Most profits in the apartment industry rely on future cash flows - to provide an expected return, to support a certain asset value and residual at sale, to service debt. Verbalized or not, every firm holds a view of the future performance of various markets as decisions are made. In some cases, these market opinions are solidly based and well-articulated. For others, this view of the future may be more intuitive than analytical.

√ All stakeholders can enhance their profits by gaining more thorough and confident insight into how a market is likely to perform in the future - leading their firms toward more viable opportunities and helping avoid disappointing investments.
Although the future is never perfectly clear, anticipating future market performance is at the heart of Witten Advisors' mission. Rather than providing more research data to clients already overloaded with facts, our goal is:
  1. to determine the "why" behind recent supply and demand trends;
  2. to define "what's next" in each market, not with black-box methods but with a clearly disclosed logic trail that is open to discussion and debate;
  3. to translate that analysis to decision-point conclusions for development, acquisitions, dispositions, and for the financing of each kind of transaction; as well as
  4. to serve as an ongoing advisor for clients, as an expert sounding board to help crystallize their investment decisions.