Trusted Advisor for Commercial Real Estate Investors and Family Offices
Institutional Expertise to Protect and Grow Your Commercial Real Estate Portfolio
Who We Work With
Foothill Real Estate Partners is a commercial real estate advisory firm that helps owners improve portfolio performance, make better capital decisions, and stay aligned with their investment goals.
We work with family offices, private investors, and ownership groups across office, retail, industrial, medical, and multifamily assets.
While property management teams handle day to day operations, we focus on the bigger picture. We partner directly with ownership to bring structure, clarity, and accountability across the portfolio through business planning, capital strategy, leasing oversight, and performance tracking.
Our Process
How We Work
Every engagement begins with understanding the portfolio and the people behind it
Assess
We start by getting to know the portfolio and the ownership objectives behind it. We evaluate asset performance, review lease and financial structures, identify gaps in oversight, and understand how the portfolio fits into the family or investor's broader wealth picture.
Align
We partner with ownership to develop a clear strategy tied to their financial goals, investment timeline, and long term objectives. This includes asset business plans, leasing strategy, capital priorities, and succession considerations. Every decision is aligned to one priority: the owner's best interest.
Implement
We execute. Hands on oversight of leasing, capital deployment, property management accountability, and financial reporting. We step in as the owner's dedicated partner, managing the day to day complexity so ownership can focus on growth, relationships, and the bigger picture.
Full Investment Lifecycle Support
Foothill also provides project-based and advisory support across the full investment lifecycle.
Acquisitions & Due Diligence
Underwriting, financial modeling, due diligence, risk assessment, and closing support.
Capital Planning & Project Management
Value-add initiatives, tenant improvements, and renovations from planning through completion.
Disposition & Exit Planning
Asset positioning, hold-versus-sell analysis, and negotiation support through closing.
Property Tax Strategy
Appeal coordination, tax consultant management, and annual tax budgeting across your portfolio.
Development Consulting
Site feasibility, development underwriting, and coordination of design, entitlement, and construction oversight.
Dean Coombs is the Principal of Foothill Real Estate Partners. Over the past decade, he has overseen more than $700 million in assets totaling over 4 million square feet across office, retail, medical, industrial, and flex properties across the Intermountain West.
Dean built his career at Alturas Capital Partners, where he held senior asset management leadership roles executing value add and core plus strategies across diverse portfolios. His experience spans the full investment lifecycle including portfolio strategy, acquisitions, leasing execution, capital planning, and operating performance, with a consistent focus on increasing NOI and strengthening asset value.
Foothill was founded to give commercial real estate owners a trusted partner focused on one thing. Maximizing the value of their investments.
Dean Coombs
Ready to Discuss Your Portfolio?
Every property deserves clear strategy and disciplined execution.
Whether you are evaluating an acquisition, looking to strengthen portfolio performance, or planning for a future transition, Foothill is here to help.
deancoombs@foothillcre.com
(208) 830-8825