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Kretchmer Associates

Kretchmer Associates

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    • Affordable Housing
    • Market-Rate Residential
    • Senior Housing
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Our Team

Valerie Kretchmer
President

Valerie has 40+ years of real estate and planning experience as a consultant, real estate analyst and city planner. She has expertise in real estate market analysis for affordable housing, senior housing, retail, office and industrial developments.

Uri Pachter
Assistant Vice President

Uri has worked on place-based issues in the public, nonprofit and private sectors for 15 years. He performs market analyses for affordable family, senior, special needs, and assisted living developments and economic development studies for local and regional governments.

Ryan Holmes
Project Manager

Ryan has worked in the urban planning public and private sector for 10+ years. His experience includes market studies for Low-Income Housing Tax Credit developments, market-rate housing, and supportive and assisted living for families, seniors and special needs populations.

Deborah Brett, AICP
Senior Consultant

Deborah has 40+ years of experience as a real estate market analyst and planning consultant. She was Senior Vice President and National Consulting Director at Real Estate Research Corporation, where she worked for 18 years.

Peter Clifford
Senior Consultant

Peter has 25+ years of experience in real estate analysis, including site and market studies for affordable and market-rate housing. He also provides marketing services to developers, municipalities, public agencies and nonprofit organizations.

Susan Friedman
Senior Consultant

Susan has 35+ years of experience in real estate analysis, including 12 years with Homart Development Company (now General Growth), where she directed the market and consumer research program.

Laurie Marston, FAICP
Senior Consultant

Laurie has 40+ years of experience and has consulted for 18+ years, providing planning and economic development services to municipalities, businesses, developers and nonprofit organizations.

Erik Cooper

We love working with Kretchmer Associates. They’re incredibly thorough in their research and good at communicating with us as the client. We know we can put trust in their work, and as developers, nothing is more important.

Erik Cooper
Community Reinvestment Foundation

Beth Demes

I have worked with Valerie for many, many years and never make a site decision without her expertise. Kretchmer Associates understand market dynamics and how to measure need and demand. They are thoughtful, detail-oriented, and big-picture smart.

Beth Demes
The Alden Foundation

Tina Pourroy

We use Kretchmer Associates to perform the market study for all of our tax credit development projects. They are always professional and thorough and they know exactly what the Illinois Housing Development Authority and the Federal Home Loan Bank are looking for. It’s a slam dunk with Kretchmer Associates!

Tina Pourroy
Housing Authority of Joliet

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Kretchmer Associates
807 Davis Street #2004
Evanston, Illinois 60201-7103
(847) 864-8895
vsk@kretchmerassociates.com

About Us

Founded in 1985, Kretchmer Associates is a certified WBE with expertise in all aspects of residential, retail, commercial, and industrial real estate analysis in the Chicago metro area and throughout the rest of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Minnesota.
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