About Us
180 Commercial Real Estate Advisors is a tenant representation and site selection firm serving companies across Florida, Puerto Rico and Latin America. We counsel our clients on the decisions that shape their business: where to locate, when to expand or consolidate, and how to negotiate agreements that perform over the life of the lease.
We represent one side of the table. Our practice was built for the occupier, and we do not accept assignments that would place us across from our own clients. It is a simple principle with a meaningful consequence: when we negotiate, there is never a question about whose interests we serve. Many of our clients engage us as their real estate department, from the first market analysis to the final walkthrough.
Our Core Values
Integrity
Honesty, accountability, and ethical practice guide every recommendation we make.
Excellence
We hold ourselves to a higher standard than the market requires, in our analysis, our negotiation, and our follow-through.
Service
Lasting relationships are built one commitment at a time. We keep ours.
Collaboration
We have had the privilege of serving some of the world's most recognized brands, working alongside their legal, finance, and operations teams and with trusted partner firms across our markets.
Portfolio of Services
Site Selection
Advisory & Consulting
Occupier Representation
We function as an extension of your in-house real estate department. Whether you occupy one location or fifty, we manage the decisions and the transactions that shape your footprint, and we do it under one commitment: we represent tenants, not landlords, so our advocacy is never divided.
Our tenant services include:
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Portfolio review across your locations, with recommendations to stay, consolidate, relocate, or expand
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Financial analysis for each decision, including stay versus go models, pro forma projections, and occupancy cost reviews
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Lease negotiation, renewals, restructurings, rent reductions, and exit strategies
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Lease administration, including CAM year-end reconciliations, lease billings, and scheduled rent increases
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Property acquisitions and dispositions, from underwriting through closing
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Franchise advisory, from evaluating opportunities to securing and negotiating the location
Our clients decide with the full picture in front of them. We build it.
Where you locate is one of the most consequential decisions your business will make. It determines your customers, your workforce, your occupancy costs, and your growth ceiling for years. Most companies make this decision a few times in their history. We make it with clients every year, and we have built a disciplined process for getting it right.
Our process:
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Requirements definition. We start with your business, not with listings. Together we define the trade area, space requirements, budget, workforce needs, and customer profile that a location must serve.
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Market analysis. We build the evidence behind the shortlist, so the options in front of you are driven by data rather than by what happens to be listed.
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Market tour. We curate a shortlist and walk it with you, in Central Florida, in Puerto Rico, or both. You see each option in context, with our candid read on the strengths and risks of each site.
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Financial comparison. We put your finalists side by side in one clear financial picture, so leadership can weigh the true cost and value of each option before committing.
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Negotiation. From letter of intent through lease execution, we negotiate as your advocate. We never represent the landlord, so every point we win belongs to you.
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Landing support. A location is more than a lease. We connect you with the local resources a successful opening requires: financial institutions, attorneys, permitting and business licenses, and marketing partners in your new market.
The Florida and Puerto Rico corridor
We hold broker licenses in both Florida and Puerto Rico and have guided expansions in both directions for nearly two decades, along with market entries from the mainland United States, Latin America, and Europe. For companies crossing between these markets, we offer defined-scope site selection packages with clear deliverables.
Some decisions call for counsel rather than a transaction. Clients engage us when the question is complex, the stakes are high, and the answer needs to be right. We bring market data, demographic insight, and negotiation experience to the table, and we tell our clients what we see, not what they hope to hear.
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Fractional real estate leadership. Many companies face meaningful real estate decisions without an in-house real estate executive. Through an ongoing advisory retainer, we serve as that executive. We sit in the leadership meetings, watch the lease deadlines, evaluate the opportunities as they arise, and bring the discipline of a corporate real estate department at a fraction of the cost of building one. It is our tenant representation practice in its most complete form.
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Negotiation counsel. Not every engagement requires us to run the entire transaction. When a company is negotiating a lease, a renewal, or a restructuring on its own, we serve as the negotiator or as counsel behind the scenes. We shape the strategy, review the terms, and strengthen our client's position at every stage of the deal.
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Market and site analysis. Behind every sound location decision is sound analysis. We conduct economic, market, and demographic studies to support location choices, expansion plans, and repositioning strategies. We also evaluate individual sites and existing locations, from redevelopment potential to performance against the market, with pro forma analysis, income projections, and feasibility assessments that show leadership what a property can realistically achieve.
Every advisory engagement is defined in scope and deliverables before we begin.
Leadership
Arnaldo Oliveras, MBA, CLS
President and Principal Broker
Licensed Real Estate Broker, Florida and Puerto Rico
Arnaldo has spent more than 20 years advising companies on commercial real estate decisions across the United States, Puerto Rico, and Latin America, directing over $600 million in transactions. His career began in San Juan with Developers Diversified Realty, now SITE Centers, a NYSE listed REIT, where he supported leasing and portfolio operations across a 4.9 million square foot portfolio.
In 2008 he founded his own practice in Puerto Rico, advising national retail and dining brands on market entry, site selection, and lease negotiation across more than 4.4 million square feet. After obtaining his Florida broker license, he established 180 Commercial Real Estate Advisors in Central Florida in 2016, uniting his Florida and Puerto Rico operations into one firm.
Today Arnaldo leads a practice dedicated to tenant representation and site selection, guiding corporate occupiers through location decisions, lease negotiations, and market entry. He is fully bilingual in English and Spanish and holds an MBA in Global Management, the ICSC Certified Leasing Specialist designation, and real estate broker licenses in Florida and Puerto Rico.
Civic Leadership and Affiliations
Current leadership
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Chairman, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Metro Orlando, 2026
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Chair-Elect, Winter Park Chamber of Commerce, 2027
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Vice Chair, Rollins Museum of Art
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Treasurer, Opera Orlando
Leadership programs
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Orlando Economic Partnership Civic Leadership Institute
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Leadership Winter Park, Class 34
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Leadership Orlando, Class 100
Industry
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International Council of Shopping Centers, member since 2006 and former Regional Chair for the Caribbean
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Member of The CCIM Institute for the Central Florida and Puerto Rico Chapters
