Bryce French

Bryce is a 2004 graduate of The University of Mississippi School of Business Administration receiving a B.B.A. in Real Estate. Strong in market knowledge, negotiations, and relationships, Bryce provides excellent service to clients in investment, industrial and office assets.

Bryce works with commercial real estate investors providing high-level analytics and key metrics for investment decisions. Utilizing proper analysis practices he forecasts cash flows to advise on Cap Rates, Cash on Cash returns, Internal Rate of Return, Net Present Value, tax liabilities and implications, as well as other crucial data points. He stays in touch with the investment market on a national basis through identification of performing and growth markets and asset classes.  Bryce utilizes a unique deal structure providing commercial real estate investors the ability to step up to assets at purchase levels which they may not have qualified to participate in outside of this unique structure.  His practice also assists self-employed investors in utilizing retirement account funds to purchase commercial real estate investments.

Bryce has had tremendous industrial deal volume. As an expert in industrial marine property he has extensive knowledge of the lower Mississippi River.  The most notable transaction is the November 2018 $30.5 Million sale of an industrial development tract on the lower Mississippi River in which Bryce represented Ram Terminals in the sale of their property to a joint venture between the Plaquemines Port Harbor and Terminal District and Tallgrass Energy.  The site is in development for a $2.5 Billion dollar bulk liquids terminal including a tank farm for bulk liquid storage, a ship dock, new rail bridge, and truck access.  This transaction received much political attention and press and the process included parish approval of a $650 Million revenue bond.

Office – Bryce has represented Buyers, Sellers, Landlords, and Tenants in office deals completing transactions in all New Orleans sub-markets including CBD and Metairie office towers. Knowledge of local office market rates, familiarity with the multi-tenant buildings and relationships to the brokers who represent those landlords, and a keen understanding of transaction provisions, make him well suited to service local office needs.

Bryce is a Louisiana licensed real estate sales agent and a member of The National Association of Realtors, along with the New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Realtors (NOMAR), Commercial Investment Division (CID). Bryce is a recipient of the 2015 CID Education Scholarship, the 2017 CID Rising Star Award, the 2018 Service to the Industry Award, the 2018 Land Sale of the Year Award, and the 2018 Land Broker of the year award.  Bryce served on the CID 2017 and 2018 Board of Directors and currently serves as an officer in his role as CID Secretary / Treasurer.   He is a Candidate Member of the CCIM Institute and currently pursuing the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation.  Bryce has a history of integrity, community involvement, and civic responsibility dating back to achieving Eagle Scout as an adolescent.  Bryce is an avid outdoorsman and supports conservation efforts as a committee member of the local Delta Waterfowl chapter.

bryce@maxderbes.com