With 50 years of office investment and operation expertise, Unico has built a reputation as a leading firm in the commercial office sector in the western United States.

Our investment strategy is to invest and co-invest in value add office opportunities. Partners and investors benefit from the company’s in-depth market knowledge and close customer relationships that enable our people to uncover exceptional investment opportunities and achieve superior results.

"We reached out to Unico because of their reputation in the market, their credibility, and our similar view of valuing and operating properties. It’s important to us to be responsive to tenants and to competitively position our property assets, just like Unico."

Daniel Deuter
Vice President / Transwestern Investment Company, L.L.C.
Chicago, Illinois

While many real estate firms focus exclusively on traditional large primary markets, Unico invests in both primary and secondary markets. Our investment approach in primary markets is flexible: We seek core-plus and value-added opportunities in both central business districts and suburban markets, and either single assets or select portfolios.

In secondary markets, we seek major assets that are irreplaceable, either because of improvements or location. To our investment partners, this means we can enter markets over looked by large institutional capital sources for core-oriented assets that offer significant operational and market upside. And because we typically enter secondary markets from a nearby primary market base, our operational risks and costs are reduced.

The Unico office investment team seeks transactions with the following attributes:

• CBD office buildings
• Suburban office buildings

• Preferred range of $10 million to $100 million-plus
• No maximum size; portfolios selectively considered

• Multi-tenant preference
• Core-plus and value-added preference
• Sale-leaseback and structured transactions also considered
• Co-investments with institutional and high net worth partners

• Primary: Seattle, Portland, Denver, San Francisco
• Secondary: Tacoma, Boise, Spokane, Salt Lake City

• Address
• Market information
• Property summary
• Tenant descriptions, including current financial information and rent roll
• Lease summary, historical income and expense information
• Terms of existing financing, if any, assumability and pre-payment
• Asking price