Biography
of David Chapman
- Twenty years of real estate analysis
experience, primarily on behalf of institutional
investors and their advisors
- Fifteen years with real estate consulting
divisions of CPA firms, including ten years with Kenneth
Leventhal & Company
- Specialty in market studies and cash flow
projections for office developments, new home projects,
desert golf course communities and master-planned
communities
- Author of numerous articles for real
estate industry publications (see below). Frequently
quoted as a real estate industry expert in publications
such as Los Angeles Times, California Real
Estate Journal and Orange County Report.
- Conducted market and financial analysis of
over forty-five master-planned communities, including
over 450,000 housing units and 300,000 acres, located in
major metropolitan areas throughout the country. Southern
California assignments included seven of the ten largest
proposed developments in the region.
- Co-managed due diligence teams on several
large portfolios for major financial institutions and
real estate subsidiaries of Fortune 500 corporations.
These engagements provided the information basis for
major portfolio acquisitions, dispositions and
restructurings. The portfolios had a wide variety of
product types in various stages of development, including
office, industrial, R&D, apartments, shopping
centers, regional malls, new home projects and
master-planned communities.
- Co-managed due diligence teams that
included over 1,000 performing and non-performing loans
for major banks and government institutions.
Published Articles
- "Evaluating Master-Planned
Communities: What Every Investor Should Know" (Builder
and Developer)
- "Don’t Miss the Next Housing
Boom" (Orange County Register)
- "Immigrants will soon replace
baby-boomers as the dominant force in California’s
housing market" (Orange County Register)
- "Market-Oriented Strategic Planning
for Homebuilders" (Builder & Developer)
- "Signs of Change in the Housing
Market" (Urban Land Institute)
- "California Housing Market
Trends" (Urban Land Institute)