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March 7, 2012<\/strong>
\nBy Gail Kalinoski, Contributing Editor<\/em><\/p>\n

After working together on several projects, two leading real estate industry firms — Kennedy Wilson and Meyers Research L.L.C. — decided to team up in a more permanent way. Kennedy Wilson, the international real estate investment and services firm based in Beverly Hills, Calif., acquired the research and consulting firm.<\/p>\n

The company headed by Jeff Meyers, which has 12 employees and four offices, will now be known as Meyers Research L.L.C., a Kennedy Wilson Company. Terms of the deal were not made public.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe company\u2019s tremendous resources and international reach with banking relationships across all property types will allow us to grow our data and research offerings as well as make direct investments into residential projects,\u201d Meyers, principal of the Irvine, Calif.,-based residential research and advisory firm that bears his name, said of Kennedy Wilson.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe variety of capabilities and depth of experience in the industry that he and his group bring will complement and add significant value to our existing services platform,\u201d said William McMorrow, chairman & CEO of Kennedy Wilson.<\/p>\n

Asked how the companies came together, Meyers told Commercial Property Executive<\/em> he had known McMorrow for many years and that his firm had recently done underwriting for some of Kennedy Wilson\u2019s residential portfolio. Meyers said his company has a \u201cvery strong network in the homebuilding arena,\u201d and that Kennedy Wilson was looking to become more active in that area.<\/p>\n

With Meyers Research L.L.C. now part of the family, Kennedy Wilson will continue to seek out more residential opportunities, according to Meyers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re looking at distressed bank assets that we can work together with homebuilders or developers on,\u201d Meyers said. \u201cWe\u2019re working on a couple of institutional bank deals that we\u2019re excited about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meyers is considered the leading expert on residential real estate trends. In 2006, he established Meyers L.L.C. as a consulting firm specializing in advisory, research and capital sourcing for single- and multi-family homebuilders, developers and financial institutions. From 1985 to 2004, he ran The Meyers Group, the largest provider of market research for the housing industry. At the time he sold it in 2004, The Meyers Group had 21 offices and over 200 employees.<\/p>\n

Kennedy Wilson has 23 offices in the United States, Europe and Japan. As reported in CPE<\/em>, Kennedy Wilson finalized its biggest European deal in the fall by acquiring a $1.8 billion United Kingdom loan portfolio<\/a>. The company reports that the U.K. deal consisted of more than 170 properties, 62 percent of which are in London.\u00a0 The majority of the properties \u2013 39 percent \u2013 are office assets with multifamily housing accounting for 26 percent; retail, 25 percent and industrial, 9 percent. The remaining 1 percent is undeveloped land. Closer to home, Kennedy Wilson recently sold a 14-story luxury apartment building in the NoHo district<\/a> of Los Angeles\u2019 San Fernando Valley for $74 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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