For Real Estate Brokers
Your client doesn't have to sell
Most brokers know the moment: a client owns a property worth developing, but they’re not ready to list. Maybe the timing is wrong. Maybe they want more than the market will pay today. Maybe they’ve been approached by builders with lowball cash offers and walked away frustrated.
The deal stalls. You move on.
Here’s a different outcome.
What GIS Does for Your Client
GIS Companies is a development management firm. We work on the owner’s side — not as a buyer, not as a developer looking to acquire land.
When your client’s property has development potential, we step in as their outsourced development team. We run feasibility, manage entitlements, structure the capital, oversee design and construction, and execute the exit. Your client stays in control of their land. We do the work.
The property gets developed. Your client captures the upside they would have left on the table.
Wht This Means for You
You keep the client relationship.
You earn a referral fee when the project engages — calculated as a percentage of our development fee and paid as the project progresses.
You earn a commission when the finished product sells or leases. That’s built into our broker agreements as a first right to list.
That means you go from a stalled conversation about a land sale to a referral fee on engagement and a future listing on a completed multifamily, mixed-use, or infill development. The commission on a finished project is meaningfully larger than the commission on a raw land sale.
You don’t lose the deal. You improve it.
How the Referral Works
You refer the property owner. We evaluate the site at no cost to you or your client. If the site qualifies and your client wants to move forward, we structure the engagement.
No pressure on your client to commit to anything before they have real information. No risk to your relationship.
If it moves forward: commission is built into the project budget. First right to list is a standing part of our broker agreements.
What We Look For in a Referral
Properties that typically qualify:
- Residential lots with infill or subdivision potential
- Properties affected by upzoning that allows more density
- Underutilized commercial or mixed-use sites
- Family-owned land where owners want to maximize value without selling below market
- Stalled listings where the seller’s price expectation and the market aren’t aligned
Start a Conversation
If you have a client sitting on a property with development potential and no clear path forward, reach out.
We’ll evaluate the site. You’ll have something to bring back to your client.
