Services
Four service lines.
Landlord representation, tenant representation, buyer and seller representation, and investment sales, across industrial, office and retail property in Conroe, Montgomery County and the greater Houston market.
Service 01
Landlord Representation
Position the space, reach the real tenant pool, and hold the deal terms that protect the asset.
Most vacancies do not sit empty because the rate is wrong. They sit empty because the space was never put in front of the twenty or thirty users who would actually sign for it. Dow Real Estate Group works a listing as a campaign, not a sign in a window: real photography and drone work, a proper offering package, syndication to the platforms brokers actually search, and direct outreach to the tenant-rep brokers covering that product type in Montgomery County and north Houston.
Jacob runs Dow listings through Marathon Creative, the marketing agency he also owns, which is why a Dow flyer does not look like a form fill. That is not a vanity point. In a market where a tenant-rep broker scans fifteen listings in an afternoon, the package decides which three get a call.
The representation does not end at the LOI. Lease structure, escalations, renewal and expansion language, TI exposure and who carries what on the operating side are where landlord value is actually won or lost, and they get the same attention as the rate.
What that includes
- Pricing from real comparable evidence, with asking rates and executed rates clearly separated
- Professional photography, drone and offering packages produced in house
- Syndication plus direct broker outreach, not listing-and-waiting
- Tenant qualification and financial review before terms are agreed
- Lease negotiation through execution, including escalations, options and TI exposure
Service 02
Tenant Representation
Find the right space, understand what the lease actually costs, and negotiate from evidence.
A business owner signing a lease is usually negotiating against someone who does this for a living and has done it forty times. That asymmetry costs real money, and it rarely shows up in the headline rate. It shows up in the operating expense reconciliation, the escalation schedule, the restoration clause and the personal guaranty.
Dow represents tenants on the search and the terms: defining what the operation actually needs in square footage, power, clear height, parking, loading and access; surveying what is available including off-market space; and then negotiating with comparable evidence on the table rather than with opinion.
Stating the lease type is not a formality here. A $14 NNN deal and a $14 full-service deal are not the same deal, and comparing across lease types without flagging it is the single most common way a tenant talks themselves into the wrong space.
In Texas the landlord customarily pays the tenant-rep commission, so in most transactions this representation costs the tenant nothing out of pocket. Terms vary by deal and are confirmed in writing before any search begins.
What that includes
- Requirements defined against the operation, not against a square-footage guess
- Market survey covering listed and off-market space
- Side-by-side economics with lease type stated on every option
- Negotiation of rate, free rent, TI allowance, escalations, options and guaranty
- Site selection support on zoning, access, parking and permitted use
Service 03
Buyer and Seller Representation
Commercial sale transactions handled with the diligence they deserve, from pricing through close.
Commercial sale transactions fail in diligence far more often than they fail on price. A deed that turns out to be a distribution deed from an estate, a seller who cannot actually sign alone, an industrial site with tank history nobody disclosed, a restriction that kills the buyer's intended use: these are findable before a contract is signed, and finding them is the job.
On the sell side, that means pricing off evidence, a documented offering, and buyer qualification before a property goes under contract and off the market for sixty days. On the buy side, it means the deed chain, the survey, the zoning and permitted use, the environmental history where the prior use warrants it, and the real condition of the improvements.
Every Dow transaction gets a written property file: ownership, deed chain, comparable evidence, and the open risks named rather than smoothed over. Clients get the file, not just the conclusion.
What that includes
- Opinion of value built from comparable evidence, with the sources cited
- Full offering package and marketing campaign on sell-side engagements
- Deed chain and ownership verification through the county record
- Zoning, permitted use, access and restriction review
- Environmental history review where prior industrial use warrants it
- Contract to close coordination with title, survey, lender and inspectors
Service 04
Investment Sales
Income property acquisition and disposition, underwritten on what the rent roll actually supports.
An income property is a set of leases wearing a building. Two centers with identical square footage and identical headline NOI can be worth materially different numbers once you read the leases: the credit behind them, the term remaining, who pays what on the operating side, and what happens in year three when the anchor's option comes up.
Dow underwrites acquisitions from the lease documents and the actual operating history, not from a marketing proforma. Where a figure is not supported by a document, it does not get used, and the client is told it is unsupported rather than handed a number that looks researched.
On disposition, the work is making the income story legible and defensible: clean rent roll, estoppels, a credible expense picture, and lease-up assumptions a buyer's lender will actually accept. Deals die at the lender far more often than at the buyer.
Dow also advises residential builders moving into commercial development for the first time, which is a natural fit through Jacob's work with Builder Connect Group: site sourcing, zoning and feasibility, and how to structure the deal.
What that includes
- Underwriting from leases and operating history, never from a marketing proforma
- Rent roll, estoppel and expense review as a standard step, not an upgrade
- Lease-up and repositioning analysis on value-add assets
- Disposition packaging built for lender and buyer diligence
- Development feasibility and site sourcing for builders entering commercial
The standard behind all four
Every number we publish has a source.
This matters more than it sounds. Asking rates run above executed rates, so a comp set that mixes them misleads. A $14 NNN deal and a $14 full-service deal are different deals. A nearer comparable with a different land-to-building ratio is not actually more comparable. A distribution deed in the chain means someone may not have authority to sign.
Dow Real Estate Group states the lease type on every comparable, labels a rate as asking unless a closed transaction is confirmed, and names the open risk rather than letting a client discover it in week six of diligence. Where a figure is not supported by a document, the client is told it is unsupported. That is a worse-looking package and a better transaction.