Townsgate creates, manages and executes exit strategies
focusing on achieving industry-leading valuations and ensuring confidentiality for sellers of companies with revenue up to
$10 million
.

Specializing in Asset Sale Transactions for most industries,
including distribution, manufacturing, financial and more.

Real Estate Management Industry

Distressed Business

We have a particularly strong track-record achieving industry-leading results for Community Association and Property Management companies.
  

Maximizing economic outcomes for SBA PLP and GP Lenders, and their clients.

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Published Books
and Articles


A Business Intermediary's Perspective,
a chapter from How to Value Your Business and Increase Its Potential, published by McGraw-Hill
  
Ten Ways to Increase Your Company's Market Value
CEO Insights/CAI

  
Your Association's Management Firm Was Sold...Don't Panic
CondoManagement Magazine

Jim Levy, Founder & Managing Director

  

Jim Levy is the founder of Townsgate Associates, Inc., a company that represents sellers of real estate management companies, and whose mission is to achieve the highest selling prices possible while ensuring confidentiality.

Jim is an expert in the sale of small to large-scale community association, and commercial and residential property management companies with over 25-years experience in business development, business operations and mergers and acquisitions.  He has worked with companies ranging from Fortune 500 multinationals to small family-held businesses.

Jim developed the industry’s most comprehensive database of management companies in the state of California.  This proprietary database ensures clients of Townsgate Associates of a confidential, quick, efficient and high value transaction. 

Some of his successful transactions include: 

  • Represented Homeowners Management Company (HMC) in a sale to a private investor (2007)
  • Represented Pacific States Management Company in the sale to Associa, one of the largest community association management companies in the country (2005)
  • Represented a private investor in the acquisition of Your-Serve Executive Suites (2004)
  • Represented Keystone Pacific Property Management in the sale of a branch office to LB Property Management (2002)

As a noted author, Jim contributed to How to Value Your Business and Increase Its Potential (McGraw-Hill, September 2004), Ten Ways to Increase Your Company’s Market Value (CEO Insights, 2004) and Your Association’s Management Firm was Just Sold – Don’t Panic (Condo Management, November 2004).  Reprints of these articles are available at www.townsgate.com.

Prior to founding Townsgate Associates, Jim spent almost 15-years at Kanematsu USA, Inc., a multinational trading company with annual revenue of $20-billion dollars.  Additionally, Jim was a corporate controller for a Los Angeles-based health care provider. 

Jim previously served as a member of the board of directors for The Association for Corporate Growth – Los Angeles Chapter.  He was also the founder of Rainbow LA, a weekly education program for inter-city youth, and an ESL tutoring program for adults. 

Jim earned a B.A. in Business & Japanese at Linfield College, Oregon.

 

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