Commercial Real Estate Advisory & Owner Representation
Turn legacy real estate into a portfolio built for what comes next.
Viking Ventures helps families evaluate inherited, underperforming, and long-held commercial real estate, then lead the transition into assets better aligned with their income, liquidity, risk, and maintenance goals.
Our Approach
The family’s senior point of coordination across the entire portfolio.
A family with farmland, office, industrial, hospitality, medical, or net-leased assets should not have to become an expert in every property type. Viking Ventures understands the whole portfolio, builds the plan, and coordinates the specialists required to execute it.
Our role resembles a general contractor or offensive coordinator: one accountable leader with a deep bench of trusted asset-class brokers and professionals. Recommendations begin with the family’s goals, not a transaction. When a sale, exchange, or acquisition is the right move, we lead it from strategy through close.
How an Engagement Works
Free conversation. Paid conclusions. Aligned execution.
The introductory session determines fit. The detailed analysis is a paid advisory engagement with defined deliverables, giving the family a decision-ready roadmap before any transaction begins.
Confidential strategy session
A complimentary conversation to understand the holdings, family priorities, decision-makers, timing, and whether Viking Ventures is the right fit.
Paid optimization study
A scoped, property-by-property analysis with clear recommendations and a written roadmap. The study is paid because the conclusions must stand on their own, whether or not a transaction follows.
Coordinated execution
With the family's approval, we lead dispositions and acquisitions and coordinate 1031 exchange transactions while assembling the right specialist brokers, qualified intermediaries, tax advisors, attorneys, lenders, and operators for each assignment.
Long-term stewardship
We remain the family's senior real estate point person, helping oversee the resulting portfolio and keeping it aligned with income, simplicity, risk, and succession goals.
Expertise
Three disciplines, one commercial real estate advisor.
Portfolio Analysis & Transition Planning
A property-by-property review of legacy holdings, followed by a practical plan to hold, improve, sell, or exchange assets according to the family's income, liquidity, risk, and stewardship goals.
- Property-by-property decision support
- Hold / sell / reposition analysis
- Income, risk & maintenance alignment
Owner Representation & Transaction Coordination
One senior point of coordination across the full transition. Viking Ventures leads the strategy and engages trusted specialists in land, office, medical, industrial, hospitality, net lease, and other asset classes as the mandate requires.
- Sales & acquisition representation
- 1031 exchange coordination
- Due diligence & deal execution
Ongoing Real Estate Portfolio Stewardship
After the portfolio is repositioned, we remain beside the family to monitor performance, coordinate property-level professionals, evaluate new decisions, and keep the holdings aligned as goals and generations change.
- Portfolio oversight
- Performance & decision support
- Long-term family coordination
Track Record
A history of results across cycles.
Nearly two decades of closing commercial real estate transactions and leading companies. The same judgment now applies to your holdings.
Raw land, office, agricultural, cell-tower, and NNN-leased assets, acquired, developed, and sold on behalf of owners and investors.
Structured and placed capital spanning entertainment, real estate, and consumer products.
Built and scaled the company, secured over $30 million in funding, and led its 2024 sale to a strategic partner.
Hands-on executive experience across consumer products, video game, and jewelry sectors.
Case Study
From a single distressed asset to a diversified, cash-flowing portfolio.
A multigenerational family held a skilled-nursing facility, owned free and clear, that had become a liability rather than an asset. Over a five-year engagement, Viking Ventures restructured the family’s holdings into a diversified portfolio built for durable, long-term income.
Details anonymized at the family’s request and shared with their permission.
The Challenge
The facility’s operating tenant had fallen two to three years behind on rent, with repeated promises to catch up that never materialized. With no rent coming in, the family was covering property taxes and carrying costs out of pocket.
An asset that should have produced income was instead draining the family’s capital and pushing them toward insolvency.
The Approach
We designed and led a full repositioning of the holding. First, we brought the facility to market during the height of the COVID-19 disruption — an especially complex sale that required marketing both the real estate and the operating business, and coordinating around the in-place operator. We orchestrated the entire process through to a successful close.
We then redeployed the proceeds into three separate assets: two medical-office properties and a triple-net-leased telecommunications site. A single distressed holding became a diversified income base, with risk spread across tenants, sectors, and lease structures.
With the family’s finances stabilized, we reviewed the balance of their portfolio and identified underutilized acreage generating well below its potential, leased to a farmer at a fraction of its land value. We sold the parcel and reinvested the proceeds into an additional triple-net-leased property, dramatically increasing the income that land produced.
The Outcome
Over five years, the family moved from the edge of insolvency to a stable, diversified portfolio generating substantial, dependable cash flow. One asset that had been costing them money became several that pay them, structured for resilience across market cycles.
Leadership
Trevor Jensen
Founder & Partner
Trevor Jensen founded Viking Ventures to bring principal-level portfolio counsel to families and owners. He earned a Master’s in Real Estate from the University of San Diego’s Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate and has personally transacted over $100 million in commercial real estate since 2006.
His real estate career includes property management at H.G. Fenton Company and brokerage roles with Lee & Associates and Cassidy Turley, now part of Cushman & Wakefield. Those roles, his graduate program, and years in the commercial real estate community built a deep network of specialists across property types and markets.
Trevor pairs that market insight with operating experience. Trevor co-founded Generation Esports, secured more than $30 million in funding, and led the company’s 2024 sale to a strategic partner. He has also served as CEO of multi-million dollar consumer goods companies, bringing hands-on executive judgment to every engagement.
That combination of market fluency, operating judgment, and the lived experience of building and selling companies is what clients rely on when the stakes are generational.
Outside of his work, Trevor is passionate about the outdoors and can often be found on the mountain-bike trails of Southern California.
Contact
Request a confidential portfolio strategy session.
The initial conversation is complimentary and designed to determine fit. In-depth portfolio analysis and written recommendations are provided through a separately scoped paid engagement.