Executive Summary

NAI Avant is a full service commercial real estate company founded in 1966 and headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina with an office in Charleston, South Carolina. Our staff of real estate professionals engages in the business of development, management, leasing and sales of a wide range of commercial properties, primarily in the Southeast, including office, industrial and retail properties, as well as development sites for residential and apartment development and major land tracts. NAI Avant is a spin-off of Edens & Avant, created to separate the third-party services divisions from the investment divisions of the predecessor company. Dan Avant, Chairman of NAI Avant, is a retired partner and current shareholder of Edens & Avant - a $3 billion development and investment company.

Our 36-agent Brokerage Services Group with offices in Charleston (S.C.) and Columbia (S.C.) has the experience and expertise to produce maximum results for a broad range of property types. Our sales and leasing team is one of the most productive in the Southeast. For the past 27 years, the group has had more of its brokerage professionals recognized as top producers or recipients of top awards than any other firm in South Carolina. We have also been listed as one of the nation's leading brokerage firms by Commercial Property News magazine.

The Brokerage Team serves a local and regional market as well as a national clientele. Our staff includes specialists in income and investment property; office; warehouse and industrial properties; acreage and recreational tracts; resort and hospitality properties; restaurants; build-to-suit development; buyer and tenant representation; financial institution real estate; REO dispositions; medical and healthcare facilities; and timberland/farmland tracts. Our specialists are supported by exceptional in-house research and marketing professionals and a strong technology platform.

In 2010, NAI Global recognized NAI Avant as the top firm in U.S. secondary markets, having demonstrated high levels of achievement though a combination of leadership, capital resources, commitment to quality and global vision.

The NAI Avant Property Management Team manages a wide variety of commercial property types. With nearly four decades of experience, our understanding of commercial buildings is unequaled. We know how to maximize resources and add value to the properties we manage. Our ability to assimilate properties quickly, efficiently and effectively makes us an ideal choice for investment property owners.

NAI Avant is also experienced in all stages of commercial real estate development - evaluation, conception, site selection, site planning, engineering, architectural design, space planning, financing, construction, leasing and management. This experience includes retail, office, industrial/warehouse and medical buildings for both single-tenant and multi-tenant use. In addition, the firm has successfully completed comprehensive site development for office and industrial parks.

NAI Avant is experienced in a wide variety of representation services and offers a comprehensive menu of each, all designed specifically to meet and complement the client's individual goals and objectives. We can systematically assist our clients in a single transaction or in developing an entire portfolio strategy over multiple markets. Whether completing small, large or multiple assignments, each client receives the same quality, personalized service and attention to detail that has made NAI Avant one of the most successful real estate teams in the Southeast.

Avant Healthcare - a division of NAI Avant - has been designed to meet the commercial real estate needs of physicians and hospitals as well as providers of clinical and auxiliary medical services.

Executive Summary

NAI Avant is a full service commercial real estate company founded in 1966 and headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina with an office in Charleston, South Carolina. Our staff of real estate professionals engages in the business of development, management, leasing and sales of a wide range of commercial properties, primarily in the Southeast, including office, industrial and retail properties, as well as development sites for residential and apartment development and major land tracts. NAI Avant is a spin-off of Edens & Avant, created to separate the third-party services divisions from the investment divisions of the predecessor company. Dan Avant, Chairman of NAI Avant, is a retired partner and current shareholder of Edens & Avant - a $3 billion development and investment company.

Our 36-agent Brokerage Services Group with offices in Charleston (S.C.) and Columbia (S.C.) has the experience and expertise to produce maximum results for a broad range of property types. Our sales and leasing team is one of the most productive in the Southeast. For the past 27 years, the group has had more of its brokerage professionals recognized as top producers or recipients of top awards than any other firm in South Carolina. We have also been listed as one of the nation's leading brokerage firms by Commercial Property News magazine.

The Brokerage Team serves a local and regional market as well as a national clientele. Our staff includes specialists in income and investment property; office; warehouse and industrial properties; acreage and recreational tracts; resort and hospitality properties; restaurants; build-to-suit development; buyer and tenant representation; financial institution real estate; REO dispositions; medical and healthcare facilities; and timberland/farmland tracts. Our specialists are supported by exceptional in-house research and marketing professionals and a strong technology platform.

In 2010, NAI Global recognized NAI Avant as the top firm in U.S. secondary markets, having demonstrated high levels of achievement though a combination of leadership, capital resources, commitment to quality and global vision.

The NAI Avant Property Management Team manages a wide variety of commercial property types. With nearly four decades of experience, our understanding of commercial buildings is unequaled. We know how to maximize resources and add value to the properties we manage. Our ability to assimilate properties quickly, efficiently and effectively makes us an ideal choice for investment property owners.

NAI Avant is also experienced in all stages of commercial real estate development - evaluation, conception, site selection, site planning, engineering, architectural design, space planning, financing, construction, leasing and management. This experience includes retail, office, industrial/warehouse and medical buildings for both single-tenant and multi-tenant use. In addition, the firm has successfully completed comprehensive site development for office and industrial parks.

NAI Avant is experienced in a wide variety of representation services and offers a comprehensive menu of each, all designed specifically to meet and complement the client's individual goals and objectives. We can systematically assist our clients in a single transaction or in developing an entire portfolio strategy over multiple markets. Whether completing small, large or multiple assignments, each client receives the same quality, personalized service and attention to detail that has made NAI Avant one of the most successful real estate teams in the Southeast.

Avant Healthcare - a division of NAI Avant - has been designed to meet the commercial real estate needs of physicians and hospitals as well as providers of clinical and auxiliary medical services.