Real Estate Development Consulting
Development is complex. Experience shouldn't be optional.
Your project deserves more than good intentions.
McCall Group partners with residential developers, builders, and real estate investors who are ready to build and need the insight, structure, and oversight to do it well.
Residential development is one of the most capital-intensive, time-sensitive, and operationally complex undertakings. Done well, it builds generational wealth. Done without the right infrastructure, it erodes capital faster than almost any other asset class.
Most developers, even experienced ones, are extraordinary at one or two parts of the process. They know how to find land, or they know how to sell. They have a great GC relationship, or they understand the money. What they often don't have is someone who has been through all of it, across market cycles, who can sit across the table and tell them what they're missing before it becomes expensive.
That's McCall Group.
We are a developer consulting practice built on more than 20 years of hands-on experience across luxury residential development, build-to-rent, multifamily investment, and real estate operations. We work with developers, builders, private equity groups, and family office investors across the country who need a trusted advisor in their corner.
We come in where we're needed. Sometimes that's at the start, helping a developer structure their first project correctly before a single dollar is committed. Sometimes it's mid-stream, when a project is in motion and the gaps are beginning to show. Sometimes it's a single engagement: a pro forma review, a GC contract audit, a sales strategy for a developer who knows exactly what they need.
Every engagement is different. The discipline we bring is the same.
Ready to bring structure and experience to your next project?
Contact McCall Group to discuss how we can support your development from acquisition through closing.
Built on experience. Guided by discipline.
Our Expertise
Twenty years of doing the hard work.
McCall Group draws on more than two decades of direct, hands-on experience in residential real estate development, investment operations, and construction oversight. This isn't consulting built on theory or borrowed frameworks. It's knowledge earned through complex transactions, difficult markets, and the kind of operational experience that only comes from having built, managed, bought, and sold real estate across multiple cycles and multiple asset classes.
Our Philosophy
We don't just advise. We think like a developer.
There are a lot of consultants who will review a document and tell you what's wrong with it. There aren't many who will sit across the table, tell you what it means for the project, and help you figure out what to do about it.
That's the difference at McCall Group. We think like developers because that's what we are. We have made the mistakes. We have run the numbers that came out wrong. We have managed the GC who missed the schedule, negotiated the contract that needed to be tighter, and sold the home that almost didn't get there. We bring that experience to every client engagement not to impress you with our credentials, but to keep you from paying for the same tuition we already paid.
Our Services: We work where you need us.
Developer Consulting
Owner's Representative Services
Owner's Representative Services
For: First-time developers, experienced developers needing some extra heavy lifting,
and investor-backed projects needing independent oversight.
The flagship McCall Group engagement. A full-spectrum advisory relationship covering business
foundation, project execution, design and market alignment, and sale strategy. We come in at
the start of a project and stay through closing, building the infrastructure, advising on every
major decision, and delivering a complete operational playbook at the end that the developer owns for every project that follows.
Typical scope: entity and operating structure review, pro forma advisory, GC contract review,
financing strategy, design and finish guidance, sales and broker strategy, offer evaluation,
and post-close system documentation.
Fee structure: Monthly retainer plus success fee at closing. Retainer structured as a project
cost within the construction financing where possible.
Owner's Representative Services
Owner's Representative Services
Owner's Representative Services
For: Developers who need day-to-day construction oversight and lender-facing administration.
Delivered through ELUX Development LLC, McCall Group's affiliated Owner's Rep entity.
The operational counterpart to developer consulting. An Owner's Representative acts as the
developer's professional agent throughout construction: reviewing pay applications, managing change orders, monitoring the schedule, coordinating lien waivers, and ensuring the project closes cleanly. Based on the AIA C104 or equivalent standard agreement between ELUX Development and the Owner's entity and recognized by lenders as a standard project cost.
Typical scope: pre-construction contract and budget review, monthly pay application review,
change order discipline, schedule monitoring, lien waiver management, punch list coordination,
and Certificate of Occupancy closeout.
Fee structure: Monthly retainer paid to ELUX Development, structured as a construction loan draw.
Project Advisory
Owner's Representative Services
Project Advisory
For: Developers, builders, or investors who need targeted guidance on a specific challenge
rather than a full engagement.
A focused engagement for a defined scope. A pro forma that needs a second opinion. Financing that needs to be sourced. A GC contract that needs a review before signing. A sales strategy that needs to be built before listing. A market feasibility question that needs a direct answer. McCall Group offers project advisory engagements for developers who know exactly what they need and want it done well.
Fee structure: Fixed fee per engagement or hourly rate, depending on scope.
Jess Spalding, Founder
Jess Spalding founded McCall Group after more than 20 years building and operating real estate businesses across residential development, construction, asset management, property management, sales, and investment brokerage. She is also the founder and CEO of ELUX®, a vertically integrated real estate firm with operations across the Midwest and into the South.
Jess has spent her career at the intersection of operational discipline and investment strategy, building systems, managing risk, and helping real estate ventures of all sizes run more effectively. McCall Group was established to bring that experience to bear specifically for developers who are building something ambitious and need a seasoned advisor who has been there.
She is based in Miami, FL.
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McCall Group LLC is a real estate development consulting and advisory firm. Services provided through McCall Group LLC are advisory in nature and do not constitute legal advice, accounting or tax advice, investment advice, securities recommendations, licensed real estate brokerage services, or licensed architectural or engineering services. McCall Group LLC is not a law firm, CPA firm, registered investment advisor, or licensed design professional. Clients should engage qualified legal, accounting, financial, and design professionals for services requiring licensure. Real estate development involves substantial risk including the potential loss of capital. Past experience does not guarantee future results. Nothing on this website constitutes a representation or warranty regarding any project outcome, sale price, return on investment, or market condition.
McCall Group LLC operates as a consulting entity separate and distinct from ELUX Development LLC, ELUX Real Estate Services LLC and ELUX Management LLC. Licensed real estate brokerage services, where applicable, are provided through ELUX Real Estate Services LLC.
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