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Real Property
Asset Management
Consultancy
Complex property decisions require more than data. They require judgment, applied consistently and defensibly.
01 The problem
A building is an asset.
An asset is a series of decisions.
Most of them are made without enough evidence.
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01
What you own, and what state it is in
Portfolios accumulate. Records fragment. Investment priorities get set against numbers no one has validated recently.
Condition -
02
What you could do instead
Own, lease, renew, dispose or restructure. Each carries a different cost profile over a different horizon — and most are never modelled side by side.
Alternatives -
03
What the decision costs later
Capital decisions commit organizations for decades. The analysis behind them has to survive scrutiny long after the meeting ends.
Consequence
— Complexity → clarity
Complexity isn't
the problem.
Lack of clarity is.
The information exists. It arrives fragmented, on different bases, over different horizons. Our work is to resolve it into something a board can act on.
02 Proprietary intelligence
Tools built to bring clarity to complex real property decisions
Unlike traditional consulting firms, we build and maintain the instruments our analysis runs on. Two of them carry every engagement.
03 The record
$0B+
Real property investment involvement
Our methodologies, analysis and recommendations have contributed to more than $5 billion in planned and executed real property investments.
About the firm- Lifecycle costing
- Discounted cash flow
- NPV
- Sensitivity testing
- Monte Carlo simulation
- Risk modelling
Advisory work spanning asset management planning, business case development, capital planning and investment analysis.
Supporting organizations in planning and managing major real property investments.
Discounted cash flow analysis, option evaluation, sensitivity testing and Monte Carlo risk simulation.
Project costing, funding requests, budget forecasting and historical funding tracking.
Our approach
04 The method
Discover
& Assess
Understand objectives, challenges and priorities. Collect and validate asset, financial and operational data before any of it is used to decide anything.
- Objectives
- Assets
- Financial data
- Operational data
- Constraints
- Validation
Develop
& Analyze
Identify and structure investment alternatives — including alternative forms of financing and ownership — then evaluate costs, benefits, risks and opportunities.
- Scenarios
- Financing
- Ownership
- Cost
- Risk
- Opportunity
Recommend
& Deliver
Prioritize options and develop actionable recommendations, then support implementation, funding management and performance monitoring.
- Decision
- Strategy
- Implementation
- Funding
- Monitoring
05 Capability
Advisory services, and the tools built to support them
Every one of these draws on the same instruments. See how DOME™ and ARCH™ support this work
Long-term strategies that align investment priorities with organizational objectives — built on asset inventories, condition assessments, risk evaluations, investment forecasts and strategic roadmaps.
Service detailObjective analysis and clear recommendations decision-makers can defend — option analysis, financial evaluation, risk assessment, benefit realization and a recommended investment strategy.
Service detailSustainable investment decisions through structured funding strategies — multi-year capital plans, funding forecasts, investment priorities and budget schedules.
Service detailCompeting alternatives evaluated using advanced analytical techniques — lifecycle costing, discounted cash flow analysis, NPV calculations, risk modelling and Monte Carlo simulation.
Service detailDecision Optimization & Modeling Environment. A decision analytics platform supporting discounted cash flow analysis, option evaluation, sensitivity testing and Monte Carlo risk simulation.
Explore DOME™Asset & Resource Cost Harmonization. Capital funding requirements managed from planning through execution — costing to UNIFORMAT II, funding requests, risk allocation and reporting.
Explore ARCH™
06 Why First Porter
Independent judgment, applied with method
Experience
More than 26 years supporting organizations in making informed real property investment decisions, across a wide range of institutional environments.26+ years
Scale
Analysis and recommendations that have contributed to more than $5 billion in planned and executed real property investments.$5B+ involvement
Analytical rigour
Lifecycle costing, discounted cash flow analysis, sensitivity testing and risk assessment — applied consistently rather than selectively.Data-driven
Proprietary intelligence
DOME™ and ARCH™ bring consistency and transparency to capital investment planning that general-purpose tools cannot.Built in-house
Objectivity
Independent recommendations, structured so they remain defensible long after the decision is made.Defensible by design