Value-Add Commercial Real Estate · Nationwide

We create value the fundamental way — leasing and capital.

Hayden Real Estate Partners acquires well-located industrial and office assets across the country and improves them through hands-on leasing and disciplined capital — guided by a first-hand view of where corporate tenants are headed.

How we create value → Meet the partners
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01What we do

Buy well. Lease it up. Invest in the asset.

Our model is simple and repeatable: acquire quality industrial and office real estate at an attractive basis, then drive net operating income through the two levers that actually create durable value — leasing and targeted capital.

01

Buy at the right basis

We acquire well-located, fundamentally sound industrial and office assets that are under-leased, under-managed, or mispriced — below replacement cost, so value creation starts on day one.

02

Create value through leasing

Leasing is where the money is made. We back every acquisition with a credible view of tenant demand — so we lease vacant and rolling space faster, to stronger credit, on better terms than the market expects.

03

Invest with disciplined capital

We put capital into the building where it earns a return — modernizing space and function to what today's occupiers actually want, to win leases and retain tenants for the long term.

Capital improvement in progress
We underwrite the tenant before we underwrite the building.
The Hayden Real Estate Partners thesis
02The edge

We see demand before the market does.

Most value-add investors buy a building and hope they can lease it. We come at it from the other side. Our partners have spent their careers representing the corporate occupiers who actually sign the leases — so we see where demand is going 6 to 24 months before it shows up in the market. That insight de-risks the single most important variable in value-add: the lease-up.

  • ◆A demand signal, not a guess. A live view of real tenant requirements before they're competed.
  • ◆Relationships with decision-makers. Direct trust with the people who sign leases and guarantee the credit.
  • ◆Underwriting from experience. Tens of millions of square feet of pattern recognition on what actually gets signed.
  • ◆Leasing velocity. We fill space faster and better — the difference between an average deal and a great one.
Warehouse space ready for lease-up
03Strategy

One edge, applied across the risk spectrum.

Value-add is our core. The same demand insight lets us move up and down the risk curve as the cycle rewards — always taking real estate risk, not demand risk.

Core focus

Value-Add

Acquire under-leased, under-managed industrial and office at a discount to replacement cost; drive NOI through leasing, retenanting, capital, and better management.

Buy below stabilized basis; re-rate as occupancy and NOI climb.
Complementary

Net Lease / BTS

Secure a corporate tenant first, then build-to-suit or buy-vacant-to-lease and deliver on a long-term NNN lease. Lower-risk, durable, credit-tenant income.

Development / creation spread over the exit cap.
Selective

Opportunistic

Distressed, heavily vacant, or redevelopment situations others can't underwrite — because we have a credible view of the demand that fills them.

Deep-discount basis plus repositioning upside.
04Track record

Built on decades at the center of the market.

The partnership pairs one of the most experienced corporate real estate advisory careers in the country with a principal investor who structures, capitalizes, and operates.

2,500+Transactions completed
45States & 10 countries
40M+Square feet transacted
$3.5B+In career volume
05The partners

Demand insight, meet principal execution.

A partnership that pairs a career representing the nation's largest corporate occupiers with a principal investor who structures, capitalizes, and operates.

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Managing Partner

Alex Hayden

Managing Partner

Alex has advised corporate occupiers for nearly three decades, most recently as a Vice Chairman at CBRE, where he and his long-time team have completed 2,500+ transactions across 45 states — more than 40 million square feet and $3.5B+ in volume — spanning leases, acquisitions, dispositions, build-to-suits, and sale-leasebacks.

A 1995 Chapman University graduate, Alex is the founding benefactor of the Alexander E. Hayden School of Real Estate at Chapman and chairs the Board of Counselors for the Argyros College of Business & Economics. His relationships and demand insight are the origin of the firm's edge.

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Partner

Cody Leivas

Partner

Cody is a principal-level commercial real estate investor and the founder of Bluebird, a private portfolio of net-lease and value-add commercial assets. He leads acquisitions, underwriting, capital formation, and asset management — the platform that turns demand insight into owned, income-producing real estate.

Across the Bluebird entities he has built the deal structuring, financing, and operating infrastructure behind multi-property commercial ownership, with a focus on disciplined underwriting and hands-on value creation through leasing and capital.

06Insights

How we think about value.

We don't publish to fill a blog. Each piece is a proof of judgment — evidence that we read the market differently, which is the same edge that wins us deals, tenants, and capital. Three views on where value in industrial and office actually comes from.

Get in touch

Let's talk about the next deal.

Hayden Real Estate Partners is actively pursuing value-add industrial and office acquisitions nationwide, and welcomes conversations with owners, brokers, and capital partners.

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