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The name RanchHarbor is derived from the unique experiences of our company’s founders.

“A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.”

–– Franklin D. Roosevelt

In 2020, the founders and key professionals from Isles Ranch Partners and Landmark Real Estate joined forces to create RanchHarbor.

Isles Ranch Partners is a real estate investment and asset management firm founded by Tom Orradre in 2012. Isles Ranch has invested over $620 million of equity capital in distressed residential land development and homebuilding projects through a strategic partnership with a global private investment firm. Total revenue generated from the portfolio to date exceeds $1.7 billion.

Landmark Real Estate is a commercial and residential real estate capital advisory firm co-founded by Adam Deermount and Steve Sims. Leveraging expertise and experience in complex transactions and troubled assets, Landmark was established to help investors and sponsors secure financing for their real estate projects.

Meet the team

Tom B. Orradre, CFA
Managing Principal

Tom Orradre comes from a fourth generation California ranching family, is a founding member of RanchHarbor and leads the firm’s investment management efforts.

With nearly 25 years of industry experience, Orradre’s solid understanding of real estate capital markets and investment management, in addition to his origination and deal structuring capabilities, provides RanchHarbor’s institutional, high-net-worth and family office clients and partners with the highest level of knowledge, guidance and expertise.

Prior to RanchHarbor, Orradre co-founded and was the CEO of Isles Ranch Partners, a leading real estate investment and asset management firm in the residential land development and homebuilding sector. Orradre led the firm’s investment efforts and grew the business to a team of 20 professionals responsible for the deployment and management of over $900 million of equity and debt capital in joint venture partnerships with select operating partners across the U.S. encompassing 40 development projects and 11,000 lots and homes.

Orradre also has significant workout experience and was a key member in the management and disposition of GMAC’s (RFC) residential construction loan / REO portfolio throughout the western U.S. on behalf of Cerberus Real Estate Capital Management and its affiliates. He began his investment and asset management career at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) and also spent four years in the investment banking industry focused on capital raising and M&A activities for private middle market companies in a variety of industries.

Orradre received his bachelor’s in business administration from the University of San Diego and earned his master’s in business administration from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) Charterholder and a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Stevenson School (RLS).

Steve Sims
Managing Principal

A founding member of RanchHarbor, Steve Sims is an industry veteran with more than 20 years of finance and investment experience, which spans involvement in more than $3 billion in real estate transactions, covering the full spectrum of asset sectors. He works closely with RanchHarbor’s institutional, high-net-worth and family office clients and partners, and oversees the company’s asset underwriting and analysis, in addition to all project capital structuring.

Prior to RanchHarbor, Sims co-founded Landmark Real Estate, formerly known as Landmark Capital Advisors, a real estate capital advisory firm disciplined in finance and private equity, where he successfully advised clients on over $1.3 billion of capital transactions across all asset classes.

In 2011, Sims co-founded Tusker Investments, a real estate investment and advisory firm focused on sub-institutional-sized investment opportunities. He is a former partner at Messenger Investment Company where he handled the company’s financial, strategic, and market analysis. He was a key player on the acquisition team at Archon Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, and worked on all commercial real estate product types in markets throughout the U.S.

Sims holds a bachelor’s degree from Southern Methodist University and a master’s degree from the University of California Berkeley’s Hass School of Business. He is a licensed California Real Estate Professional and is an active member of Newport Harbor Yacht Club where he is a former Treasurer and currently serves as a Director in the role of Secretary.

Taylor Grant,
Court Appointed Receiver

Taylor Grant is a 50-year real estate veteran and has been serving as a receiver since his first court appointment in 1989.  Grant brings a wealth of experience to the RH Receivers team accumulated over a court appointed fiduciary career that includes appointments in five states and over 75 locations. In addition, he served on the board of directors of an NYSE-traded REIT for ten years.
 
Prior to joining RH Receivers, Mr. Grant was the founder of California Real Estate Receiverships (CalRER) which was responsible for over $750MM of asset sales that served as collateral for loans made by some of the world’s largest banks.  During that time, Grant served as a court appointed fiduciary on a wide variety of commercial and residential real estate assets including partially completed construction projects, raw land and podium developments.  He held contractor, liquor, gambling, lottery and tobacco licenses as a result of those assignments. 
 
While at CalRER, Mr. Grant was appointed receiver on a Bank of America construction loan portfolio of 969 lots and 128 homes located in three states, across 34 locations during the Great Recession.  He recovered 81% of a $133MM loan, completing construction, renewing building permits, completing Fish and Game permitting processes, obtaining statewide DRE sale approvals and negotiating city fines.  He sold the largest land asset in the loan pool for 105% of the loan balance without using a broker. 
 
Mr. Grant holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California.  He is a co-founder of the Southern California Receiver Forum and served as a board member of the directors of the Los Angeles / Orange County chapter.  He has delivered lectures at the Los Angeles County Bar Association, American College of Mortgage Attorneys, Urban Land Institute, International Conference of Shopping Centers, Building Industry Association, Cornell University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Southern California, University of California at Irvine and University of California at Los Angeles.  Grant and his wife Candi have three grown children and two grandchildren.

 

John Meek,
Managing Principal

John Meek is a founding member of RanchHarbor and leads the firm’s business development activity targeted toward private investors, real estate sponsors and financial institutions. He brings more than 10 years of real estate finance and investment experience having served as both a capital advisor and principal investor.

Prior to RanchHarbor, Meek was director of business development at Landmark Real Estate, formerly known as Landmark Capital Advisors, a real estate capital advisory firm disciplined in finance and private equity. In this capacity, Meek focused on expanding the institutional capital base by building trusted relationships with senior debt providers, structured finance investors and joint venture equity partners.

Preceding his work at Landmark, Meek was an acquisition associate for Champion Real Estate Company, where he focused on acquiring value-add retail and development projects. His real estate finance experience also includes work for Bilak & Kramer Capital, a Beverly Hills based family office, Credit Suisse and CharterMac Mortgage Capital.

Meek holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California and is a licensed California Real Estate Professional. He is a passionate golfer and resides in Los Angeles.

Trevor Albrecht,
Senior Associate

Trevor Albrecht conducts all analysis and underwriting for RanchHarbor’s prospective debt and equity originations. Albrecht is also the lead creator of RanchHarbor’s investment memoranda and director of the firms investment management portal.

Albrecht has more than six years of experience in real estate and capital markets covering all major commercial asset classes, as well as land and residential development. He is instrumental in developing RanchHarbor’s various financial models used in the underwriting process and has an extensive working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Argus DCF / Argus Enterprise. 

Prior to RanchHarbor, Albrecht was a financial analyst at Landmark Real Estate, formerly known as Landmark Capital Advisors, a real estate capital advisory firm disciplined in finance and private equity. In this capacity, Albrecht analyzed and strategically underwrote over $1 billion in capital transactions for assets of all types.

Albrecht holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration – finance from the University of California, Riverside. He resides in Newport Beach and is a licensed California Real Estate Professional.