8.6.5.1Vertical
Development Advisory Services
Consultants advising owners and investors on development feasibility.
Market snapshot
These figures describe Real Estate Consulting & Advisory (8.6.5), the segment that Development Advisory Services sits within — not Development Advisory Services on its own.
- Market size
- ~$26B
- Growth
- ~8.8%CAGR (2017–22, nominal)
- Companies
- ~21,900
FragmentationFragmentedEstimate
U.S. Census Bureau 2022 CBP/Economic Census, NAICS 531390 (other activities related to real estate) — consulting, fiduciary, escrow, and other real-estate-related services.
Business model & economics
Revenue model
Advisory, research, and real-estate-service fees
Key economics
- Recurring revenue
- Moderate
- EBITDA margin
- Professional- and data-services economics
- Capex intensity
- Low
recurring research and advisory relationships
Characteristics
- Investment/transaction advisory, research, and feasibility.
- Driven by real-estate decision complexity.
- Intertwined with CRE-services and data platforms.
M&A deal context
Deal activityModerate
Who’s acquiring
- CRE-services advisory platforms
- Specialist consultancies & data firms
- PE-backed platforms
What’s driving deals
- Advisory-platform consolidation.
- Capital-markets and decision-support demand.
- Data and research integration.
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