The Keig Commercial Real Estate Team Advantages
Frank Demeter and his team have a track record of identifying opportunities during challenging markets. Our team’s local market knowledge, broad experience through multiple cycles, and familiarity with challenged properties help our clients reduce long-term investment risk while maximizing return.
We employ a risk management-based underwriting approach using our institutional level asset management background to provide clear and meaningful advisory services and reporting to our clients.
We use a data-driven approach with in-house property information from previous cycles to help us test current opportunities through future real estate cycles.
Areas of Concentration in Commercial Real Estate
Debt and Equity Placement
Investment Brokerage Services
Asset Management
Site Selection
Consulting
About Frank Demeter
Frank Demeter is a Principal and the Designated Broker for Keig Commercial Real Estate in Phoenix, Arizona. Frank is also a loan originator for Keig Financial, a middle-market mortgage banking firm representing numerous life company lender correspondents. Frank’s diverse commercial real estate background includes:
More than 30 consecutive years of real estate experience in investment sales, asset management, leasing, finance, site selection, development, ownership and consulting.
Recent sales transactions include freestanding and multi‐tenanted commercial and industrial properties, land, and hotel properties - primarily in the middle-market sector.
From 1997-2020, Frank’s focus included brokerage services, asset management, tenant representation, site selection and consulting across all major property categories.
During the real estate recession that began in 2008, Frank represented multiple lenders in the disposition of REO/OREO assets.
From 1990-1997, as a commercial mortgage banker, Frank represented clients in financing a diverse array of property types, including office, industrial, retail, multi-family, self-storage and recreation.
During the RTC-fueled recession in the early 1990’s, Frank experience included structuring workouts and handling other portfolio management issues.
Prior to 1990, Frank’s career began as an analyst working for a regional bank handling complex bank branch site selection and development strategies.
A native of Wisconsin, Frank received his BAA in Finance and Real Estate as well as a M.S. in Real Estate from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. His professional affiliations and memberships include:
Current Board Member and Past Chapter President, Risk Management Association – Arizona Chapter (RMA)
Past Board Member and Past President, Arizona Commercial Mortgage Lenders Association (ACMLA)
Member, International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)
Admitted to Lambda Alpha International (LAI)
Regional Representative, Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Association
Past Board Member, WAA Valley of the Sun
Past Guest Lecturer, Arizona State University
Licensed Broker, State of Arizona
☎ contact
fdemeter@keig.com
(602) 802-8997
➤ LOCATION
Keig Commercial Real Estate, LLC
3309 N. 2nd Street
Phoenix, AZ 85012
•• Accolades ••
“I am writing this testimonial about Frank Demeter with enthusiasm. I purchased a property that was in a local area that never recovered from the 2008 recession, as the commercial properties in the immediate area have also struggled. Frank began working with me after the property cratered. My one thought about Frank is that in the ten years that he has been my consultant, he has treated my property as if it was his own. Frank and I connected through a very good friend who was a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Business School. He had learned of Frank through his commercial real estate colleagues as having a reputation for working hard and having integrity, honesty, sound judgment, and a high degree of knowledge and experience. Frank worked hard in learning the details of the leases. He worked closely with the property managers and often toured the property. He was instrumental in renegotiating the refinancing. And when three leasing agents gave up on the property, he took on the leasing as well. My property had many crises, and Frank was the voice of calm reasoning in renegotiating lease renewals or dealing with difficult tenants. And of course, when the property sufficiently qualified for a sale, he managed to complete this complex task. Suffice it to say, I cannot recommend Frank Demeter highly enough. ”
asset management, financing and sale client