Steve Flanagan
Senior Advisor, Land Advisors Organization
Orlando, FL 32803
Phone (407) 425-5988 x2
Property Types
Land
Markets
Jacksonville (Florida), Orlando, Tampa/St Petersburg
Bio
Steve Flanagan opened the first Land Advisors Organization office in Florida in
January 2009. He brings a consultative, value-added approach to advisory services,
concentrating on the acquisition and sale of large-scale land assets ranging from
subdivisions to master-planned residential and mixed-use developments and has been
responsible for over $270 million in closed land transactions.
Since beginning his career in 1967 with Aetna Realty Investors, Steve has developed
strong expertise in real estate finance, negotiating equity investments and joint
ventures, managing corporate and real estate loan workouts, and liquidating assets in
a timely and effective manner. A corporate real estate restructuring assignment with
Drexel Burnham Lambert Realty brought Steve to Central Florida in 1980, where he
has lived and worked ever since.
In 1990, following a 10-year career in multifamily development, Steve began advising large, high-profile clients such as
Colonial Properties Trust, Trizec-Hahn, Citicorp Real Estate and the FDIC on the acquisition, entitlement and disposition of
significant land assets in Florida. He built a productive brokerage practice with The Galbreath Company, Grubb & Ellis and
Charles Wayne Properties.
Successful assignments include representing Colonial Properties Trust in the assemblage and entitlement of 245 acres
that became the Colonial Town Park mixed-use development in Lake Mary; representing D.R. Horton in the assemblage,
acquisition and entitlement of 2,000 acres for the 3,600-home Waterleigh Village in the Horizon West sector of Orange
County; and advising Orlando NTC Partners in its successful bid for the redevelopment of the 923-acre Orlando Naval Training
Center, which became Baldwin Park.
He was senior vice president of acquisitions and development at Crosland-Florida from 2004 thru 2008, where he was
responsible for acquiring more than 1,400 acres of land valued at approximately $44 million, and obtaining entitlements
for 3,900 residential units and 475,000 square feet of retail/commercial space.
He is professionally affiliated with the Greater Orlando Builders Association, where he is a former director, a founder and
past chair of its developers’ council, and director emeritus of its political action committee. Steve is also an Urban Land
Institute (ULI) member, and served on the ULI Central Florida District Council Management Committee and the Governance
Committee. He has been a director of the Association of Florida Community Developers and is a founding director of the
Central Florida Commercial Real Estate Society. He served on the City of Winter Park Economic Development Advisory
Board.
Steve was a finance major at Husson College in Bangor, Maine, where he graduated in 1967 with a B.S. in Business
Administration. He attended graduate school at the University of Hartford in Hartford, Connecticut, where he pursued an
emphasis in Economics and Finance.
Education
