Andre Soroudi, Director of Acquisitions of CGI Strategies was featured in Los Angeles Business Journal on July 20, 2020 in "Investors See Value in Student Housing Despite COVID-19" discussing on how the company is working on its first student housing projects. Andre...
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Boutique Extended Stay Hotel Market Resilience
To say we’re living in strange times is, perhaps, the biggest understatement of the year. There are few areas of our lives and work that COVID-19 has not affected, from stay-at-home orders, masks as the new normal, school shut-downs, and endless Zoom meetings...
How Has Extended Stay Been Affected by COVID-19?
In an economy shredded by COVID-19, there have been some major winners and some major losers in terms of profitability. Big-chain hotels with one-to-three-night average stays landed on the not-so-lucky list. With travel screeching to a halt and stay-at-home orders in...
Detailed Underwriting Is the Secret Sauce
We invest in strategically located, ground-up developments and income-producing real estate throughout California, New York, and key cities in the Southeastern and Southwestern U.S., particularly in the underserved secondary or tertiary markets. Types of assets we...
How to Do a Quick Multifamily Deal Analysis
In boom times and uncertain times alike, multifamily investments historically offer a safe harbor. That does not mean, however, that you can afford to neglect your due diligence when considering making a move in this market segment. A multifamily deal analysis is a...
CGI Strategies Seeks New Opportunities
The Los Angeles Business Journal reported earlier this June that amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, many real estate developers are actually being presented with some unique real estate opportunities, even as the US economy has come to almost a complete halt. Historically,...
CGI Strategies Weighs Hotel Conversion Options
Real Estate Alert reports that while across the country the hotel industry is suffering through its worst recorded downturn, hotel owners are looking into marketing their properties as apartment-conversion residences instead in an effort to maximize value and recover...
CGI’s Director of Acquisitions Honored in LA Business Journal
CGI Strategies is happy to announce that our very own Director of Acquisitions, Andre Soroudi, has been included as a part of the Los Angeles Business Journal's "20 in their 20's". Andre has been with the company since May 2019, and as Director of Acquisitions, he...
CGI Strategies Introduces New Security Measures to Properties in the Wake of LA Protests
As protests across California continue in full force after the death of George Floyd, property owners brace for potential damage committed by looters, Bisnow reports. CGI Strategies has mobilized its executive team to plan strategies to not only protect California...
Multifamily Investing a Relatively Safe Harbor
2020 came in with a bang, and it has not let up since. We have seen unprecedented changes globally, nationally, and, of course, in our own communities and workplaces as the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, swept in on a wave of uncertainty, tumult, and, it is predicted,...