Guidance informed by Taiwanese and U.S. business practices.
Full service commercial real estate
U.S. commercial real estate, understood from both sides of the Pacific.
AVEN helps investors, business owners, and operating companies lease, acquire, sell, and strategically manage commercial real estate in the United States. Tina Lu and Philip Pickard combine disciplined transaction execution with clear, culturally informed communication.
Principal involvement. Clear communication. Licensed local execution.
Tina Lu and Philip Pickard remain directly involved.
Core markets supported by qualified relationships across the United States.
A clearer path into U.S. commercial real estate
The transaction is local. The strategy should travel.
Leasing a facility, acquiring an investment, selling an asset, or entering a new market can expose clients to unfamiliar agency rules, documentation, financing expectations, diligence standards, guarantees, and negotiation practices.
AVEN organizes each decision around the client’s operating objectives, financial criteria, timing, and risk. We coordinate market strategy, property evaluation, negotiations, diligence, and the appropriate licensed professionals so clients can decide with context rather than guesswork.
Companies Entering the United States
Translate an operating plan into an executable path to occupancy.
Define the property requirement, compare markets, organize the local team, and protect the critical path.
Occupiers and Owner Users
Make the real estate decision serve the operating business.
Evaluate leases, renewals, relocations, expansions, and purchases through total economics and operational fit.
Investors and Property Owners
Assess risk and market position before capital is committed.
Frame acquisitions, dispositions, leasing strategy, and potential value against realistic execution constraints.
Taiwan and the United States
Translation carries the words. Context protects the decision.
Language is only one part of a cross border transaction. Business relationships, negotiation styles, documentation, timelines, guarantees, and decision authority can be understood differently in Taiwan and the United States.
Tina Lu works with clients in English and Chinese and brings firsthand understanding of Taiwanese business culture, relationship building, and decision making. Philip Pickard brings U.S. market strategy, transaction execution, and multistate brokerage coordination.
Clear communication helps preserve trust. Informed execution helps protect the investment.閱讀繁體中文版
Full service advisory
One team for the complete real estate decision.
Strategy, brokerage execution, diligence coordination, and direct partner accountability from initial requirement through closing or occupancy.
Tenant and Occupier Representation
Identify viable properties, compare total occupancy costs, structure proposals, create negotiating leverage, and coordinate lease execution.
Acquisition and Owner User Advisory
Source and evaluate property around operating requirements, basis, financing, diligence, future flexibility, and exit considerations.
Investment Sales and Dispositions
Develop market positioning, evaluate buyer interest, compare offers, negotiate business terms, and coordinate diligence through closing.
Landlord and Agency Leasing
Position commercial space, reach qualified prospects, evaluate proposed terms, and negotiate around the owner’s financial and operating objectives.
Site Selection and U.S. Expansion
Compare markets and sites through a consistent process covering access, labor, utilities, zoning, timing, economics, and operating constraints.
Cross Border Transaction Coordination
Connect real estate strategy with legal, tax, financing, diligence, and licensed local brokerage resources while maintaining one accountable relationship.
Combined partner experience
A decade of perspective across consequential real estate decisions.
The partners behind AVEN have contributed to commercial real estate assignments involving more than one billion dollars in aggregate transaction value. That perspective informs how we frame risk, compare alternatives, structure negotiations, and coordinate execution.
Combined partner experience includes professional work completed before AVEN and is not presented as AVEN transaction volume.- Aggregate assignment value involving the partners
- $1B+
- Combined transaction timeline
- 10 years
- Client service model
- Direct
How we work
Clarity before property outreach. Leverage before commitment.
Understand the Objective
Define the business purpose, operating constraints, capital criteria, timing, and decision authority.
Structure the Market Strategy
Determine the right markets, property profile, licensed brokerage structure, and professional team.
Create Options and Leverage
Build credible alternatives before negotiating with a landlord, seller, buyer, or incumbent provider.
Underwrite the Full Decision
Compare economics, improvements, guarantees, financing, diligence, flexibility, and downside.
Negotiate Through Execution
Coordinate proposals, letters of intent, transaction documents, professional review, diligence, and final business terms.
Markets
Focused market knowledge. Connected national execution.
AVEN serves commercial real estate requirements in Arizona, New Mexico, and Georgia through the appropriately licensed brokerage structure in each jurisdiction. California, Texas, and Tennessee opportunities are referred to and performed by qualified firms licensed in those states.
When a requirement extends beyond these markets, AVEN coordinates with qualified local brokerage professionals so the client can retain one strategic point of contact while gaining appropriately licensed local execution.
- ArizonaSouthwest growth and operating markets
- New MexicoLocal advisory and brokerage coordination
- GeorgiaSoutheast business and logistics markets
- TennesseeReferral to an appropriately licensed local brokerage firm
- CaliforniaReferral to an appropriately licensed local brokerage firm
- TexasReferral to an appropriately licensed local brokerage firm
- Additional U.S. MarketsThrough appropriately licensed local brokerage relationships
The partners
Two perspectives. One accountable advisory team.
Tina Lu
Co Founder · Taiwan Client Strategy
Tina helps Taiwan based investors and companies navigate U.S. commercial real estate with clear communication and cultural context. She brings firsthand understanding of Taiwanese business norms, relationship building, and decision making, and remains involved from initial strategy through execution.
Philip Pickard
Co Founder · Commercial Real Estate Strategy
Philip advises occupiers, owner users, and investors on leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, site selection, and expansion. His approach emphasizes total economics, leverage, timing, risk, and disciplined execution through the appropriate licensed brokerage resources.
AVEN engagements receive direct partner involvement from initial strategy through transaction execution.
Start a conversation
Bring us the objective before the property list.
Whether you are entering the United States, expanding into a new market, purchasing an operating facility, leasing space, selling an asset, or evaluating an acquisition, AVEN can help define the requirement and organize the next step.