Real Estate
Marsh's Real Estate Practice comprises a global network of advisors who help real estate  clients identify, quantify, and manage their risks using an array of services and solutions.

Real Estate

Real estate owners, managers, and developers operate in a dynamic industry in which everyday "bricks and mortar" risks such as natural hazards co-exist with more complex challenges, including environmental liabilities, partnership and contractual obligations, and stricter lending requirements. The ever-changing nature of the industry is bound to spawn new risks that must be dealt with. 

The Real Estate Practice of Marsh comprises a global network of advisors who are dedicated to organizations that must contend with real estate risks. Clients served include:

  • Investment advisors and managers;
  • Real estate investment trusts;
  • Third party managers;
  • Asset managers;
  • Fiduciaries;
  • Financial institutions; and
  • Real estate operating companies;

Marsh helps its real estate clients identify, quantify, and manage their risks using an array of services and solutions, including:

  • Lender Compliance — Marsh can assist clients in negotiations with lenders to ensure that all compliance requirements have been satisfied.
  • Catastrophic Risk Transfer — Marsh offers unique and innovative risk transfer solutions for catastrophic exposures such as flood, earthquake, hurricanes, wind, or terrorism to protect businesses in the event of a natural or man-made disruption.
  • Benchmarking — Our extensive benchmarking studies capture and analyze useful data, including premiums and rates, limits of insurance purchased, and deductibles/retentions. These studies can be invaluable when negotiating with lenders and other capital providers, or when performing allocations and assessing existing insurance and risk management program.

Additional services and solutions to help real estate firms manage their risks include:

  • Catastrophic risk transfer;
  • Terrorism insurance, modeling, and consulting;
  • Captive feasibility and management;
  • Environmental insurance;
  • Representation and warranty insurance;
  • Premium allocation and invoicing;
  • Lease and contract review consulting;
  • Catastrophe bonds;
  • Claims preparation services;
  • Deductible buy-down and catastrophic limit protection insurance;
  • Certificate monitoring;
  • Contingent/credit wraps;
  • Owner-controlled insurance programs/wrap-ups;
  • Maintenance, bid, and performance surety bonds;
  • Tenant/resident group insurance purchasing programs; and
  • Employee benefits consulting and insurance.
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Environmental Risks in the Real Estate Industry
January 06, 2012  |  Views: 239 |  Comments: 0 
Environmental Risks in the Real Estate Industry
This edition of Marsh’s Environmental Risk Quarterly focuses on environmental risks in the real estate industry.   >>
The Words Matter: Property Policy Wording for Retail Companies
November 25, 2011  |  Views: 822 |  Comments: 0  | Article Rating
The Words Matter: Property Policy Wording for Retail Companies
The losses suffered by the retail industry from Irene were exacerbated due to the timing of the storm  >>
Risk Spotlight: CAT Models and the New Normal
May 02, 2011  |  Views: 2195 |  Comments: 0  | Article Rating
Risk Spotlight: CAT Models and the New Normal
Gathering the best data possible, presenting it to insurers, and understanding the models are critical pieces of an organization’s property insurance program.  >>
Insurance Market Update — Spring 2011
April 21, 2011  |  Views: 869 |  Comments: 1  | Article Rating
Insurance Market Update — Spring 2011
Even as recent developments portend upward movement in rates for risks subject to natural catastrophe losses, overall marketplace capacity remains plentiful.  >>
Sustainability: The Changing Climate of Risk
March 30, 2011  |  Views: 507 |  Comments: 0 
Sustainability: The Changing Climate of Risk
This white paper is intended to be a catalyst not only for discussion around the risk issues raised by a changing climate, but also to serve as a guide to executives on how they ca...  >>
Client Reduces PML and Saves $1 Million
April 02, 2007  |  Views: 700 |  Comments: 0  | Article Rating
Client Reduces PML and Saves $1 Million
Review how Marsh helped the client negotiate an Earthquake Probable Maximum Loss analysis.  >>
Pollution Liability Policy Facilitates Multi-Million Dollar Sale
April 02, 2007  |  Views: 498 |  Comments: 0 
Pollution Liability Policy Facilitates Multi-Million Dollar Sale
Discover how Marsh's Real Estate Practice placed coverage to provide a solution to a national pension fund advisor's initiated sale of a large retail center.  >>
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Master Trust Program
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Master Trust Program
Master trust is a broad, comprehensive property and liability insurance program that provides coverage for a financial institution's personal trust real estate exposures.   >>
Benchmarking Services
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Benchmarking Services
The Benchmarking Portal's rapidly growing database contains information on nearly 115,000 insurance policies covering $US75 billion in premium placements.  >>
CS STARS
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CS STARS
CS STARS LLC supports comprehensive risk management, enterprise risk management and compliance and safety management.   >>
Group Captives
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Group Captives
A group captive offers an alternative insurance structure for companies in several industries.  >>
Insurance Diagnostic For Real Estate Companies
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Insurance Diagnostic For Real Estate Companies
Marsh’s Real Estate Diagnostic Tool helps clients identify and understand their cost drivers, peer benchmarking, modeling, program structure alternatives, and coverage gaps.  >>
Marsh 3D
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Marsh 3D
Marsh 3D is our dynamic service process, embedding powerful analytics and tools to help maximize the impact we can have on clients' risks at every juncture.  >>
RealSTARS
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RealSTARS
RealSTARS™ helps real estate organizations centralize risk information, manage mitigation efforts, and access property values, exposures, and insurance information.  >>
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U.S. Insurance Market Report 2012: Real Estate
January 31, 2012  |  Views: 29 |  Comments: 0 
U.S. Insurance Market Report 2012: Real Estate
As signs of strengthening appeared in the U.S. economy, the real estate industry slowly improved toward the close of 2011.  >>
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Tropical Storm Rina Brings Heavy Rain, Winds to Mexico
October 27, 2011  |  Views: 591 |  Comments: 0  | Article Rating
Tropical Storm Rina Brings Heavy Rain, Winds to Mexico
Organizations with interests in areas affected by Rina should continue to monitor local news and advisories from the Mexican Secretariat of Governance and local agencies.  >>
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December 08, 2010  |  Views: 480 |  Comments: 0  | Article Rating
Lessons from Sam Zell
Marsh's Global Real Estate Practice Leader, Jeffrey Alpaugh, interviews Sam Zell about economic and real estate trends around the world at Marsh's 2011 Global Real Estate Conferenc...  >>
Soft Commercial Insurance Market Conditions Expected to Persist in Fourth Quarter of 2010
November 19, 2010  |  Views: 1090 |  Comments: 0  | Article Rating
Soft Commercial Insurance Market Conditions Expected to Persist in Fourth Quarter of 2010
Soft commercial insurance market conditions are expected to persist through the fourth quarter of 2010, according to preliminary rate information published last week by Marsh.  >>
Largest-Ever Punitive Damages Award in Employment Practices Case Highlights Need for Liability Insurance
June 14, 2010  |  Views: 1695 |  Comments: 0 
Largest-Ever Punitive Damages Award in Employment Practices Case Highlights Need for Liability Insurance
A recent ruling by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, in which the court awarded $250 million in punitive damages in an employment practices liability (...  >>
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February 09, 2012  |  Views: 20
Marsh Launches New Renters Insurance Program for Multi-Family Tenant Property Owners and Managers
Provides property owners and managers with a straightforward and easy way to offer guaranteed renters insurance coverage to their tenants.  >>
January 30, 2012  |  Views: 66
Commercial Real Estate Firms Facing More Challenging Insurance Market in 2012: Marsh
Insurance market conditions for U.S. real estate firms will continue to deteriorate in 2012, continuing a trend that began in the second half of 2011, according to a comprehensive ...  >>
April 27, 2011  |  Views: 2583
First-Quarter Insurance Rate Increases Confined to Loss-Affected Exposures: Marsh
Global Insurance Markets Under Pressure as Atlantic Hurricane Season Approaches Despite record level first-quarter catastrophe losses, insurance rate increases were confined to lo...  >>
March 07, 2011  |  Views: 912
Marsh Webcast — Developing an Integrated Approach to Workers' Compensation
As employers seek to manage escalating workers' compensation claims costs, Marsh will hold a one-hour Webcast on March 9 at 11 a.m. Eastern Time to explore the benefits of an integ...  >>
February 17, 2011  |  Views: 1307
Risk & Insurance® Power Brokers® Issue Honors 46 Marsh Insurance Brokers
Risk & Insurance® magazine has named 46 Marsh colleagues as Power Broker® winners and finalists in its annual issue recognizing the industry’s best for their creativity, problem-so...  >>
February 01, 2011  |  Views: 692
Egyptian Unrest: Companies Need to Re-Examine Insurance and Risk Strategies
Companies are re-assessing the adequacy of their insurance coverage and risk management arrangements in the wake of political unrest in Cairo and other cities across Egypt, accordi...  >>
January 26, 2011  |  Views: 1299
Soft Commercial Insurance Market Conditions Set to Continue into 2011: Marsh
Soft commercial insurance market conditions persisted throughout the United States in 2010 and are poised to continue into 2011, according to a comprehensive report published today...  >>
January 12, 2011  |  Views: 822
New Report Warns Current Global Governance Systems Lack Capacity to Deal with Global Risks
The financial crisis has drained the world's capacity for dealing with shocks. The frequency and severity of risks to global stability have amplified, while the ability of global g...  >>
April 07, 2010  |  Views: 490
Marsh Media Advisory: 2010 Atlantic Hurricane Season
Earlier today, Colorado State University's (CSU) Department of Atmospheric Science issued an updated forecast of the 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. In 2010, CSU predicts an above-...  >>
November 05, 2009  |  Views: 519
Marsh Study: Real Estate Firms Looking to Reduce Costs Must Navigate Evolving Commercial Insurance Market
As commercial real estate firms look to recover from the impact of the global economic downturn, their cost management efforts have been helped during the past several months by ge...  >>
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Contacts
Jeffrey Alpaugh
Global Real Estate Practice Leader
Boston MA United States
617 385 0476
jeffrey.s.alpaugh@marsh.com