We build, manage and advise on luxury residential, commercial and surgery center projects across Southern California.
General contracting is our specialty, and owners, developers, physician groups and institutional capital also bring us in to run construction jobs on their behalf and to do the analysis and market research that decides what a site should become. Wherever we come in, we carry the job with your economics in view.
Our specialty. Preconstruction, buyout, delivery and closeout under one contract, open book from the first budget.
We run the job for owners who hold their own trade contracts or need someone on their side of the table.
Feasibility, market research and development budgets so you know what a site supports before you commit to it.
One firm from the first site visit to the certificate of occupancy.
Bring us in for the whole project or for the piece you need. The people who price the work are the people who build it, so the analysis we hand you holds up once the job is running.
General contracting
We hold the prime contract and deliver the building, usually under a guaranteed maximum price with the books open to you.
- Budgets built by trade off your drawings
- Prequalified bidders and leveled bids
- Monthly forecast from subcontractor actuals
- Mockups signed before install at scale
- Punch, as-builts and a warranty walk
Construction management
We run construction jobs for owners and developers, either as construction manager over the trades or as your representative alongside another builder.
- Schedule and budget control
- Pay application and lien release review
- Change order pricing and negotiation
- Site oversight and quality inspections
- Monthly owner and lender reporting
Development consulting
We run the analysis and market research that tells you what a site should become and what it will cost to get there.
- Site feasibility and highest and best use
- Market research on rents, sale comps and absorption
- Construction cost estimates by trade
- Development budgets and pro formas
- Investment committee memos
A builder that reports like a fund.
Five phases, and the reporting is the same in each one. The number in your pro forma is the number you can follow every month.
Scope and budget
Budget built by trade off your drawings, constructability review, and a value engineering log priced before you commit to a set.
Bidding and award
Prequalified bidders only, every bid leveled line by line against the scope sheet, and the award matrix shared with you before anything is awarded.
Long lead and logistics
Long-lead equipment identified early and released against the approved site plan, site logistics set, and float held at the project level rather than inside a trade.
Build and report
Open book, a forecast rebuilt from subcontractor actuals, and the gap between billed and installed reported as its own line.
Turnover and warranty
Punch run by area as work completes, as-builts and O and M manuals delivered with the certificate, and a warranty walk before the first year closes.
Somebody has to care about the four inches nobody photographs.
A stone edge, a reveal that holds its line, a seam that lands where the drawing said it would. Our construction leadership came out of ultra-luxury residential, where that tolerance is the job. We run the same buyout and mockup discipline on value-add product, and we can afford to because the document side of the work runs on AI rather than on overtime.
How we think about building well.
Four parts of the job where projects usually go sideways, and the habits that keep them from going there.
How a guaranteed maximum price actually holds
Forecasting from subcontractor actuals, watching the gap between billed and installed, and holding float at the project level.
READ → 02Buying on lead time, not just cost
Why electrical gear sets the critical path, and how a material decision gets made on cost, lead time and warranty together.
READ → 03Where AI takes hours out of the job
The document work we have moved onto language models, what we will not put a model near, and who checks the output.
READ → 04How a subcontractor gets the scope
Prequalification, bid leveling, reference calls on the named crew, a written scoring matrix, and mockups that set the standard.
READ →Quality is a set of decisions, and every one of them has a number.
Material selection is where a building either earns its rent or quietly gives it back. We price the alternative on every line, we mock up anything a resident or a tenant will touch, and the owner sees the sheet before award.
The corner is where a subcontractor tells you the truth.
You find out what a crew is capable of at the first mitered corner and the first window opening, which is why we build those before we let anyone install at scale, and why the mockup gets signed by you and the architect rather than filed by us.
What kind of build do you want?
Every project sits somewhere between the cheapest thing that passes inspection and the best thing the site can carry. The useful conversation is which direction each decision pushes cost, schedule, rent and the cap a buyer will underwrite, because those four do not move together and the widest spread is rarely at either end.
Build it for what the market pays today and get it leased.
Build what the site can carry and let the buyer pay for it.
Balanced
Three numbers govern every deal we sign.
They are set before the deposit goes hard and reported against every month until the asset sells.
Untrended yield on cost
Priced on today's rents and today's hard costs. The spread to the market cap rate is what the equity is actually being paid for.
Cost to complete
Rebuilt monthly from subcontractor actuals and installed quantities, with the gap between billed and complete shown as its own line.
Days of float
Held at the project level, released by the schedule, and reported as a single number alongside the dollars.
Send us a set of drawings, a site you are looking at, or a budget that needs a second opinion.
We build, manage and underwrite projects across Southern California, and we are glad to run a feasibility study or a preconstruction budget before you have picked a builder.
Start a conversation- Investor relations
- IR@catalinacommercial.com
- Services
- General contracting, construction management, development consulting
- Office
- Costa Mesa, California
- Geography
- Orange County, Inland Empire, Los Angeles, San Diego
- Product
- Luxury residential, commercial, surgery centers, mixed use