Curtis Coughlin, Advisor
After obtaining his finance degree from Arizona State University Curtis began his 18-year real estate career as a Senior Real Estate Consultant with Kenneth Leventhal & Co. There he performed a range of assignments over a 3.5 year period on Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), Investment Bank, and Fortune 500 bulk sales portfolios totaling in excess of $2 billion including asset reviews and valuations, database management, and project management. His other client engagements included reviewing and preparing collateralized mortgage obligation (CMO) cash flow models, real estate development feasibility reports, audit support, commercial property appraisals, and a study of retiree migration trends.
As Vice President for Land Development for Communities Southwest, LLC, Curtis was responsible for the development of nearly 2,000 acres including, two award winning golf courses, over 6,600 lots covering seven projects all of which exceeded budgeted returns and included two master plan communities that were simultaneously the fifth and sixth best selling communities in the market.
As a Principal of HPIM, LLC Land Services Group, LLC he was responsible for all activities associated with the acquisition, planning and entitlement of 4 projects totaling over 1,800 acres in Pinal County, having successfully obtained all budgeted zoning, land use and lot yield projections in spite of substantial municipal or neighbor opposition.
Additionally he completed all pre-construction work for 3,000 lots in Buckeye, Arizona, including General Plan amendments, annexations, zoning, preliminary platting, engineering, utility solutions, regional sewer and water planning and resolving Flood Control issues.
In all, Curtis has planned, entitled and/or developed over 12,000 residential lots, in addition to having planned and entitled over 400 acres of commercial, mixed use and multi-family land. Curtis has also developed two award-winning golf courses.
Curtis is a proven expert in sophisticated financial modeling allowing his Investment Banker clients to analyze investment alternatives. Through this method, he has enabled analysis a variety of investments totaling nearly $5 billion. These include mixed-use real estate developments projects, entertainment industry projects, European shopping centers and solar energy plant projects.