Team CORE

01 Company at a Glance

11M+

SF Under Management

50+

Corporate Clients

300+

Properties

~20

Team Members

Founded

June 19, 2018 (Team CORE LLC) — successor to CORE Partners LLC, founded 2006

Headquarters

691 N. Squirrel Road, Suite 290, Auburn Hills, MI 48326

Service Lines

Brokerage / Advisory · Property Management · Project Management

Property Types

Office, Industrial, Hi-Tech, Retail, Medical, Multi-Family

Current Technology

Claude AI (internal instance named "SAM"), CoStar, Weebly (website), Cloudflare

BBB Rating

A+ — Accredited since February 1, 2019

Key Insight
Team CORE is running a portfolio sized for 125 people with only ~20. At peak under CORE Partners Associates, the firm had 125 employees, $22M revenue, and the same 11M+ SF. Today they deliver the same scope at roughly 1/6th the headcount — meaning every operational inefficiency is magnified, and every productivity gain is enormously valuable.

02 Company History

2006

CORE Partners LLC Founded

Matthew Farrell leaves his VP role at Friedman Real Estate Group (Farmington Hills) and convinces 7 colleagues to join him. CORE = Consultants Of Real Estate. Grows to 17 people, 6.5M SF under management. Survives the 2008 financial crisis — in 2008 alone executes 169 transactions, 1.1M SF, $51.5M value.

2013

Merger — CORE Partners Associates LLC

CORE Partners merges with Burton Share Management Co. and Realta Group Midwest LLC to form CORE Partners Associates. Gains property management contracts for Realta's Midwest properties. The combined firm begins scaling rapidly.

2016

McNabnay Acquisition — 10x Portfolio Growth

Acquires McNabnay & Associates LLC and McNabnay Property Management LLC (Bloomfield Hills). Managed portfolio grows from 700K SF to 7.1M SF overnight. Adds 4 medical office buildings (~100K SF) and 20 condo properties (1,000+ units). Firm peaks at ~125 employees and $22M revenue.

2018

The Dissolution — Team CORE LLC Formed

August 2018: Partnership dissolves. Majority-owned Burton-Katzman side forms Dominion Real Estate Advisors LLC. Matthew Farrell takes brokers Philip Wojtowicz, Jeremiah Preston, and James Akouri to found Team CORE LLC (June 19, 2018). The lean ~20-person firm retains the 11M+ SF client relationships and rebuilds independently.

2018–Now

Team CORE LLC — Boutique Focus

Continues to serve 50+ corporate clients and manage 300+ properties with a team-based, client-first philosophy. Chamber memberships in Auburn Hills, Royal Oak, Rochester, and Clarkston. Matthew Farrell maintains CoStar Power Broker status for 15+ consecutive years. Team begins adopting AI tools, including an internal Claude instance named "SAM."

03 Key People

Leadership & Brokerage

Name	Title	Background & Notes
Matthew J. Farrell, CCIM CEO / Owner	Our Champion	MSU '99. Founded CORE Partners (2006) after VP role at Friedman Real Estate. Clarkston resident. CoStar Power Broker 15+ consecutive years. Crain's "40 Under 40" (2009), "50 Names to Know in Real Estate" (2016). MCBR Broker of the Year & Past President. Past President of EO Detroit. Board: Auburn Hills Chamber, Catholic Foundation of Michigan.
Kevin Tamer VP / Associate Broker	Primary Contact	Western Michigan University. ~7 years at Team CORE (started as AVP). Specializes in landlord/tenant rep, investment services, site selection, market research. Our direct contact — attended CoreNet on March 12 and reached out same day. Likely married to Samantha Tamer.
Philip Wojtowicz SVP / Associate Broker	In The Room	24+ years CRE. Former hospital administrator — leveraged into medical office specialization. One of the founding brokers who left with Farrell in 2018. President, Pontiac Downtown Business Association. Co-creator of Main Street Pontiac (501c3).
Samuel McLean VP, Advisory Division	Key Broker	MSU '18. Started as intern in 2015, got real estate license that year, rose to VP. Works with Tier 1 auto suppliers and national accounting firms. Manages industrial and office listings for local and national ownership groups. Note: his email is sam@team-core.com — same as their AI instance "SAM."
Spencer Wittebort Associate		Brokerage team associate.
Kendall McKouen Associate		Brokerage team associate.

Operations, Marketing & Admin

Name	Title	Background & Notes
Samantha Tamer Director of Marketing	AI Priority Target	U of M-Flint, History Education (2009-2014). Also listed as Operations Manager — wears multiple hats. Handles ALL marketing for Team CORE solo. The single biggest force-multiplier opportunity in the engagement. Industry standard for 11M+ SF = 2-4 person marketing team. AI can 2-3x her output.
Amanda Warson Director of Operations		Handles company day-to-day, PM Division support, marketing dept, admin staff oversight, onboarding, event planning, graphic design, and client relationship management. Broad scope — another AI leverage candidate.
Sarah Mueller Director of Customer Relations		30+ years Oakland County experience. Joined January 2023. Handles first impressions, tenant communications, PM support, marketing. Rochester Hills resident.
Kristina Apostolovski Administrative Support		kristina@team-core.com

Property Management

Name	Title	Notes
Zachary Warson Director of Property Management		9+ years experience. Prior tech sector background managing multi-million dollar project implementations and vendor contracts. Oversees all property operations, facility engineers, and vendors. Oakland University Athletics Board; ACHA Commissioner.
Jeffrey Lewis Property Management Professional
Kristopher Butler Senior Customer Representative
Tyler Wilford Associate
James Taylor / Bob Taylor / Robert Ragland / Jonathan Karney / Robert Blevins Facility Engineers		5 facility engineers managing physical assets across the portfolio.

04 Pain Points — Kevin's 5 Focus Areas

01

Lease Management & Abstracts — TOP PRIORITY

11M+ SF = hundreds of leases. Need: auto-abstracts by tenant, automated reminders at 18/12/6 months pre-expiration, project folders per property, key term extraction (rent, options, TI, insurance, renewal notices). Daily, repetitive, high-volume pain across the entire firm.

02

Investment Analysis

Input deal data → investment analysis/underwriting report. Currently building NOI, cap rate, amortization models from scratch each time. Anomaly flagging (unusual rent rolls, unverified income) is manual. Comp analysis is time-consuming and inconsistently formatted.

03

Property Budgeting Tool

Use multiple years of real P&L (income + expense) to create property budgets. Heavier weight on prior year, lighter on older years. Currently a manual, time-consuming process done from scratch each budget cycle.

04

Marketing Tool

New client engagement + drip campaigns. More client touchpoints, share their "client first" culture. Samantha Tamer handles ALL marketing solo — AI is a massive force multiplier. Industry standard: 2-4 person team for this portfolio size.

05

Security — Education, Not a Build

They use Claude ("SAM") and want to understand how to keep uploaded data private and secure. This is a trust/education topic. Oliver's pitch: "What you saw uses public AI. Want the private, secure version? That's what I build." Positions the private AWS deployment as a natural upgrade path.

05 Competitive Landscape — Metro Detroit CRE

Firm	Tier	Relevance to Team CORE
National / Global
CBRE	National	Full Detroit office. Enterprise tech stack, research dept, marketing teams. Team CORE's biggest tech gap vs. nationals.
JLL	National	Full-service Detroit presence. Strong corporate tenant rep — direct competitor for Team CORE's corporate clients.
Cushman & Wakefield	National	Full-service Detroit presence. Same competitive dynamic.
Newmark / Colliers / Avison Young	National	Growing Detroit footprints. All have proprietary tech platforms boutiques can't match.
Regional / Boutique (Direct Competitors)
Friedman Real Estate	Regional	Where Matt Farrell worked before starting CORE. Full service, strong Oakland County presence. Longest-standing competitor.
Signature Associates	Regional	30+ years, full service, overlapping property types (office, medical, hi-tech, industrial). Most similar profile to Team CORE.
Farbman Group	Regional	One of Michigan's largest locally-owned CRE firms. Office, retail, industrial, mixed-use.
Dominion Real Estate Advisors	Regional	Formed by the Burton-Katzman side after the 2018 CORE split. Same roots, direct competitor, personal history.

Strategic Gap
National firms (CBRE, JLL, Cushman) have enterprise tech stacks worth tens of millions. Enterprise CRE software (Yardi, MRI) costs $50K–$200K+/year and requires dedicated IT. Team CORE is in the gap: too large for basic tools, too small to justify enterprise software. Custom AI solutions deliver enterprise-level capability at a fraction of the cost — this is the Beyond AI value proposition.

06 Auburn Hills Market Context

80+

International Corporations

32

Countries Represented

22

High-Tech Parks

$84K

Median HH Income

Auburn Hills punches well above its weight for a city of 25,000. The concentration of Stellantis (HQ), BorgWarner, FANUC America, Faurecia, Continental, and Joyson Safety Systems creates high-density office and industrial demand with sophisticated corporate tenants.

The EV transition is a double-edged sword for Team CORE's portfolio: Stellantis restructuring creates near-term vacancy risk, while new entrants (American Rheinmetall announcing an Auburn Hills HQ, Japan-based Astemo Americas in Wixom) generate fresh demand. Operationally sharp firms will capitalize; firms relying on manual processes will struggle to move fast enough.

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