Company Profile

Geographic Coverage

The Siracusa Company has the ability to perform market studies and consulting services within a broad geographic area encompassing the entire Southwestern United States. At the same time, our principle areas of specialization are focused on the Southern California region including the coastal counties of Ventura, Los Angeles, and Orange counties, as well as Kern County and the Inland Empire region of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Further, we also conduct frequent assignments in the central coast region, including Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties.

The Siracusa Company is also credited with the creation and implementation of The Siracusa Report, a comprehensive and well-respected series of quarterly publications which provide up-to-date, reliable and detailed information for new residential development activity and trends in Ventura County, as well as in the Santa Clarita and Antelope Valleys in north Los Angeles County.

The Siracusa Company, founded in 1974 by Ernest V. Siracusa, Jr., CRE, is one of the most innovative real estate market research and data services companies in Southern California. From its inception, the company has engaged in countless research and advisory assignments that have enhanced and led to financially successful real estate developments for a diverse client base consisting of local, regional and national real estate developers, lenders, and public sector agencies.

More specifically, the company offers an array of market reseach and consulting services for a wide spectrum of real estate development projects including the following land uses:

Residential (ownership and rental)
Office / Commercial
Mixed-use
Industrial

Our market studies and services apply to all stages of real estate development: land acquisition, product conception and design, development implementation, and marketing. Within this context we conduct topical assignments such as market feasibility assessment studies, pricing studies, and product recommendation studies to assist architects in designing appropriate products for the marketplace.

Further, by providing expert witness testimony, the company has assisted many clients in gaining positive outcomes in real estate related litigation matters.

Professional Qualifications of Principal

Ernest V. Siracusa, Jr., CRE is founder and president of The Siracusa Company, and has a rich and varied background in market research, property appraisals, economic feasibility analysis and real estate development planning. In the course of his career, he has successfully completed upwards of two thousand challenging assignments for projects including single family residential, condominiums, apartment buildings, senior housing, office and industrial buildings, and mixed use residential/commercial developments. He has also authored numerous published articles on a range of real estate topics.

Mr. Siracusa was recently cited as an expert for an article on MSN.com – Click here to learn more.

Prior to founding his own firm, Mr. Siracusa was retained as a Senior Consultant to the nationally-known real estate market research and consulting firm of Robert Charles Lesser & Co., for which he managed a variety of specialized assignments for major national accounts. In this capacity, Mr. Siracusa traveled extensively, gaining invaluable knowledge and experience with respect to regional housing markets across the United States.

Early in his career, Mr. Siracusa held the position of Senior Research Analyst in the Marketing Research Department of the Larwin Group, a major California homebuilder. In this position, he was responsible for the management of local, regional, and nationwide housing studies ranging from site specific feasibility analysis to regional entry evaluation.

Prior to his affiliation with the Larwin Group, Mr. Siracusa was a senior member of Development Research Associates, the urban economic and real estate consulting division of Booz, Allen and Hamilton, Inc. In this capacity, Mr. Siracusa directed a variety of diverse studies for private and public clients in the areas of property appraisal, market analysis and economic/financial feasibility.

Mr. Siracusa is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Barbara where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in economics with specialization in micro- and macro-economic growth and development theory. Mr. Siracusa has also undertaken nearly two years of graduate study at the same university leading to the Master’s Degree in urban studies.

Mr. Siracusa is a member of The Counselors of Real Estate, a prestigious internationally recognized organization of highly accomplished and respected real estate related professionals who have conferred upon him the designation of Counselor of Real Estate (CRE).

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