IRVINE, CA--(MARKET WIRE)--Sep 22, 2008 -- One of the top land brokers in Southern California has teamed up with a nationally recognized land development analyst to offer expert real estate consulting on uncertain residential and commercial property investments in the down market.

The pairing of Paul Grover and Barry Gross to form Strategic Land Advisors is part of a budding industry of real estate consultants helping a new breed of clients evaluate, develop or sell land, including distressed properties.

"We're launching this partnership in direct response to the housing crisis that has created confusion in the marketplace about the true value of land," said Grover, SLA's managing partner. "Banks, investors, landowners and developers need to know how they can reduce risk and enhance the value of their land. We're ready to help them do that."

Grover was a top producing land broker for 12 years at O'Donnell/Atkins, where as senior vice-president he led a team that closed sales on more than 30,000 residential lots worth more than $1 billion.

Gross is a nationally recognized land development expert and lecturer whose system is based on regression analysis of a comprehensive database of more than 7,000 real estate projects he has completed for more than 170 clients nationwide.

Gross has spent more than a decade as president of Developers Research, a firm that offers strategic advice, research and due diligence services focusing on costs and scheduling for land developers. The two companies are strategic partners.

"Teaming up with Paul on this effort will give us a unique opportunity to offer our consulting and brokerage expertise to financial and investment experts who never expected to be in the land sale, purchase or development business," Gross said.

Grover said the firm's goal will be to offer clients sound guidance in challenging times where real estate and capital are plentiful, "but reliable information is not."

SLA helps owners of distressed real estate understand its true value in a fluctuating market, and offers options for developing and selling the land or boosting its value for future sale. It offers a sophisticated "optimization model" to pinpoint costs, risks and rewards of those options. It will help clients market, negotiate and close on their land sales. http://www.strategiclandadvisors.com/index.html or 949-748-6708.

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