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About The Firm
AW Properties Global is a national advisory and disposition firm specializing in special assets, distressed real estate, and recovery solutions on behalf of lenders, institutional investors, receivers, and legal professionals. AuctionWorks, a division of AW Properties Global, is setting the standard for Article 9/UCC foreclosure sales, structured dispositions, bankruptcy related transactions, and complex distressed asset sales nationwide.
Why Choose AW
AW Properties Global and AuctionWorks (our online marketplace) offers a highly experienced, client focused team driven with discipline in consulting, investment sales, brokerage and auctions.
Commercial real estate professionals with extensive experience in auctions, investment sales, bankruptcy, workout, and restructuring. Our team includes a licensed attorney with significant litigation and bankruptcy experience and a licensed CPA/MBA with extensive portfolio, workout and receivership experience.
Creative, strategic solutions that maximize value and reduce cost.
Proprietary database of over 100,000 owners, brokers and investors.
An in-house auction platform and online marketplace, AuctionWorks, fosters a competitive bidding process to accelerate sales and maximize value.
Experienced brokers with a wealth of transaction and strategic asset management experience, capable of handling complex matters.
Our number one goal is always to optimize our client's assets while serving our client's best interest.
Capabilities
Three practices, one team. Whichever door a matter arrives through, the valuation work and the marketing reach are the same.
Bankruptcy and workout services, portfolio analysis and restructuring, lease analysis and restructuring, and receivership and special master appointments — in federal bankruptcy court, in judicial and non-judicial foreclosure, and in disputed trusts.
Investment sales across multifamily, industrial, retail, office, specialty use, land and residential, plus acquisition services, leasing and site selection. Dispositions run as traditional sales, accelerated sales, auctions, sealed bids, calls for offers, confidential off-market sales, bulk and portfolio sales, sale/leasebacks and 363 sales.
AuctionWorks, our in-house auction division and online marketplace, provides commercial and residential real estate auction services across all geographies. With strategic partners we also liquidate equipment.
Leadership
The professionals leading your engagement are the professionals who actually execute it. Our senior professionals are licensed and credentialed to perform the services they provide—bringing together expertise in law, auctions, brokerage, expert witness testimony, institutional investment sales, portfolio management, and distressed real estate. One, the principal and founder, is an attorney, auctioneer, real estate expert witness, and managing broker who has sold every major asset class of real estate, with more than $1 billion in sales. The other is a CPA and MBA with extensive institutional portfolio, workout, and receivership experience and more than $2 billion in investment sales. You deal directly with senior professionals—not layers of junior staff.
Full Profiles
Founder & CEO
Diana M. Peterson is the Founder and CEO of AW Properties Global and a nationally recognized authority on complex real estate dispositions and Article 9/UCC foreclosure sales. An attorney, managing broker, auctioneer, and entrepreneur, Peterson has been involved in more than $1 billion in real estate transactions during her career. She advises lenders, law firms, institutional investors, receivers, fiduciaries, and other stakeholders on UCC sales, bankruptcy and receivership dispositions, auctions, portfolio sales, and other complex transactions nationwide. Peterson's distinctive combination of legal, real estate, auction, and transaction experience enables her to design competitive, defensible sale processes for sophisticated and often unusual assets. She is also a frequent speaker and author on UCC sales and distressed real estate and has served as an expert witness in real estate-related litigation. Peterson earned her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School, where she served as an editor of the Minnesota Law Review, and her B.A., with honors, from the University of Chicago.
Managing Director, Investment Sales
With investment sales of over $2 billion and 35+ years in commercial real estate, Jeffrey P. Baasch offers his clients a wealth of transactional and strategic asset management experience.
The Record
Case studies with the challenge, the method chosen and the price achieved — including the ones that had already failed to sell on the traditional market.
Commercial
When the owner of this independent living community passed away, his estate hired a chief restructuring officer (CRO) to assist it in managing a pre-bankruptcy situation.
Commercial
The owner of this vacant, approximately 95,512 sf former medical building set on 10.04 acres originally had purchased it with the intent of converting it into a trampoline park
Residential
The owner of this custom built home had decorated and furnished it in a style not likely to be widely appealing to most buyers in the area of the home
Testimonials
Diana Peterson was my representative on a very difficult sale of a retirement property I was selling. I am CRO of a company that had this property in its portfolio, and I was selling it to pay back investors in the company. The property was over 40 years old and was in significant need of cap ex and general upkeep. Additionally, the property was in a blue collar community that was in significant decline due to the loss of manufacturing jobs in and around the community. As a result, the value of the property was in a free fall. Ms. Peterson developed excellent marketing materials and aggressively marketed the property over a period of 60 – 90 days. We received several expressions of interest and three LOI’s. We ended up choosing a buyer who we throught was the best fit, but they were very difficult and demanding. Ms. Peterson worked diligently with the buyer and their representatives to close the transaction, when it appeared on several occasions that it would fall through. The transaction provided a healthy return to the investors. I’m convinced that without Ms. Peterson’s steadfast approach, the buyer would have walked and we would have lost the sale.
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Tell us about your asset, objectives and timeline. We will help you evaluate the right disposition strategies, sale options, and next steps.
