Services

What We Do

IDS Real Estate Group develops innovative strategies that are executed through disciplined operating practices to deliver creative solutions. 

The IDS holistic approach is founded on a unique generalist philosophy, where broadly experienced and educated managers serve as primary client liaisons.  In support of these managers, in-house specialists stand ready in their areas of expertise – from property, asset, and facilities management to marketing, advisory services, information systems, accounting, finance, and construction and development management.  This support is augmented by best-in-class vendors, attorneys, and consultants who appreciate their long-standing IDS relationships as much as we value their stellar performance on behalf of our clients.

PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

We appreciate the difficulty, time, and expense involved in attracting tenants.  As a result, IDS’s core property management services focus on a primary objective – tenant retention.

Once an initial lease is earned, all efforts are directed at ensuring it is for the long term. To this end, proprietary IDS property management checklists, plans, budgets, inspections, audits, and surveys focus on tenant retention.

As an IREM Accredited Management Organization, best practices we have cultivated are applied to all properties in the portfolio and, as an ancillary benefit to our clients, result in the lowest insurance loss ratios and premium rates in the industry.

The measure of success is clearly evident – in a 24 million square foot management portfolio of over 1,000 tenants, occupancy exceeds 95%.

DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT

As a development manager, IDS Real Estate Group has the extensive interdisciplinary and leadership skill sets necessary to produce significant value.

With a unique understanding of tenant needs based on our mangement portfolio complimented by long-term and intimate local market knowledge, IDS always designs real estate projects most appropriate for their sub-markets, tenants, equity, and lenders.

By leveraging long-standing local relationships and thorough understanding of regional communities and land-use politics and procedures, IDS managers expertly guide projects through entitlement and permitting.  When market-responsive design schematics are complete, in-house construction managers consult with architects, engineers, and general contractors to create detailed budgets and schedules.  This process ensures that clients and partners have precise, practical, and realistic budgets and implementation plans.

Finally, IDS professionals bring projects to completion – on time and within budget.

MARKETING

Since understanding your customer is the first rule of marketing, it is also the prime driver of our targeted marketing programs.

IDS marketing programs are informed by daily interactions with over 1,000 tenants.  As a result, we anticipate prospective tenant and buyer needs to create marketing programs that highlight compelling project features using cutting edge tools such as virtual reality tours.  Of equal importance, we evaluate the most effective aspects of marketing programs and implement these best practices across the entire management portfolio.

For market research and lead generation, IDS partners with the strongest individual brokers in each market, including those at national firms as well as local boutiques.  In structuring and documenting leases and sales, IDS managers have an unparalleled sense of urgency, understanding of how to maximize value, and attention to detail.  This ensures our clients and partners receive the best market terms and conditions from the most credible tenants and buyers.

CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT

Over decades of hands-on experience, IDS construction managers have directed more than $2 billion in ground-up commercial construction, and annually manage more than $75 million in tenant improvements and renovations.

IDS construction managers begin their work at project conception to assure only the most cost effective elements make it into schematic and design development documents.  Once this is accomplished, using state-of-the-art budgeting and scheduling tools, they then incorporate valuable input from engineers, consultants and general contractor into the creation of construction documents.  This process assures a project’s budget and its final cost are aligned.

IDS manages every step of construction; from site evaluation to plan creation; from contract negotiations to competitive bidding; and, finally, from daily construction oversight to close-out.   Our sharp aim is always to bring projects in on time and within budget.

CORPORATE SERVICES

IDS Corporate Services assists organizations that consider real estate a need that supports production — not as an investment.  Whether for manufacturers, distributors, technology companies, banks, professional service firms, retailers, or non-profits, our goal is to have real estate operations and transactions seamlessly advance a client’s strategic objectives.

IDS’s experience servicing real estate owners creates a deep reservoir of know-how on which to draw.  IDS Corporate Services tailors this expertise specifically for owner-users and tenants.  These outsource arrangements offer key advantages compared to self-operation where real estate is not, nor should be, an organization’s core competency.

This holistic approach is also differentiated by the quality of our analyses.  We concentrate our support on shaping insights to our client’s specific decision-making environment.  Use of proprietary analytical tools and models allows IDS Corporate Services to make recommendations based on empirical factors such as demographic data, transportation costs, and financing alternatives.  We investigate all opportunities and identify all contingencies in order to recommend appropriate real estate decisions.  Prior to the execution of any plan, a detailed re-examination of all strategic objectives is undertaken to confirm it truly advances these aims.

Once plan implementation begins, IDS Corporate Services created and offers a proprietary website enabling owner-users and tenants to monitor and track it in real time. Security is assured as the degree of access is customized according to employee responsibility and authorization levels.

Our corporate services include transaction management, facilities management, financing, development and construction management.  As an owner’s representative, IDS expertise can be leveraged to complement a client’s in-house capacity.  This commitment to coordinating all potential resources ensures streamlined management and its success has established the long-term relationships we enjoy today.

REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

At IDS, Real Estate Investment Management concentrates on meeting the precise needs of each real estate investor.    A research-based model allows us to be responsive to market dynamics while leading project oversight.

Our role across practices is to set strategies that minimize operational costs while maximizing revenue. This process may involve many options — improving various real estate functions, rationalizing excessive capital commitments, or unlocking unrealized potential in under-utilized property. A key to our success has been the stability we have enjoyed, not only within IDS but also with the financial community.

Using these strategies, seasoned senior asset managers oversee project level teams.  With market attuned discipline, we help real estate investors mitigate risk and take maximum advantage of real estate opportunities. By pulling together varied alternatives, potential outcomes can be quantified and assessed accordingly.

As an adjunct to real estate investment management, IDS offers highly effective financing services. We continue to enjoy long-term relationships across a wide network of financial resources – pension funds, banks, private equity, and insurance companies. By accessing these affiliations, we ensure solutions are cost appropriate and effectively delivered.