Who is Eastdil Secured? What exactly do they do? Explain for dummies!
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[{"id": "iuw7wfv", "text": "Not sure but Green Street is doing a discussion with them next week that you can register for.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iuwavox", "text": "Investment sales brokerage firm. They compete and are one of the big boys.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iuwblwz", "text": "They help owners buy and sell buildings.  They also help owners find debt and equity investors for their projects", "replies": [{"id": "iv3sz27", "text": "They DO have investment banking teams in SF and NYC, but again investment sales and D/E placement is their bread and butter.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iuwbme6", "text": "At a basic level, Eastdill Secured is an investment sales brokerage that generally focuses on selling large institutional-grade commercial real estate assets.\n\nThey also do a higher than typical amount of debt &amp; equity brokerage - including syndication, fund raising and joint venture structuring. \n\nEastdill has worked hard to build a reputation as being the 'investment bank' of CRE brokerages but some of that is just smoke and mirrors. They're still a brokerage, they just focus on larger assets.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "iuy6niz", "text": "Debt and equity origination. Capital intermediary", "replies": [], "depth": 1}]