Direct REO is a specialized real estate advisory firm focused on the acquisition, management and disposition of distressed real estate assets. Our trading platform is transparent, stream-lined and delivers optimum trade execution for all property types across all performance levels. Value-Add acquisition strategy focuses on senior whole loan positions collateralized by income producing real estate both in the residential and commercial arenas.

Direct REO is a specialized real estate advisory firm focused on the acquisition, management and disposition of distressed real estate assets and non performing whole loan portfolios.

With over 40 years combined experience in capital markets, finance and commercial real estate, we deliver customized solutions with superior results for both buyer's and seller's of distressed real estate and mortgage related products.

Direct REO is a California-based, real estate advisory firm engaged in opportunistic acquisitions of distressed debt, whole loan portfolios and real estate assets nationwide. The firm provides a full range of capital options including senior debt, mezzanine financing, preferred and joint venture equity, participating mortgages and construction financing.

The firm acts as both a buy-side advisory and direct correspondent for commercial banks, life companies, Wall Street firms, credit corporations, private lenders, high net worth individuals and pension advisors.

The depth and severity of the real estate markets downfall has not dissuaded investors from attempting to capitalize on a rebound. Both specialists and non-specialists have correctly ascertained that forced deleveraging has afforded a once-in-a-generation opportunity to pick up bargain priced real estate-related assets.

However, there is a wide disconnect between the areas of greatest opportunity and those areas that are attracting the bulk of the investment capital. Widely followed proxies for the residential real estate markets in the US have already experienced sharp rebounds even as fundamental indicators such as loan delinquencies, the fiscal position of state and local governments, and the resale values of physical real estate have remained stagnant or even deteriorated.

Many segments of the markets have gone from pricing in unrealistically pessimistic scenarios to pricing in optimistic ones as investors cluster into a few areas. As a result, investments that formerly offered outsized returns across a range of scenarios now come with a much more balanced risk/reward while certain, less well-known or more labor intensive opportunities with better potential risk-adjusted returns remain available to enterprising market participants.

     Direct REO seeks to take avantage of these opportunities for our own account. 

Direct REO’s differentiated approach steps into this breach. We focus on untapped opportunities in less efficiently priced corners of the market where the potential for substantial risk-adjusted returns persists whether in debt, equity, lien structured products or physical assets themselves.

Our firm does not simply look to purchase opportunities at firesale prices and hold it for recovery. Instead, we craft investment positions that take advantage of well-defined opportunities with limited downside risk within market niches that play to the strengths of our management team.

Additionally, the diverse skill set and industry know-how of our managing partners allows us to extract returns from numerous facets of a given investment.