FAQ
The questions people ask before they call.
If what you are after is not here, the shortest route is to ask. Grade would rather have a five-minute conversation than have someone guess.
Working with Grade
What does Grade actually do?
Three things, under one roof: residential development, brokerage, and construction financing. Most firms pick one. Doing all three means a project can move from acquisition through development to sale without changing hands or losing context along the way.
Where does Grade work?
Development and brokerage are focused on the Westside of Los Angeles — Bel Air, Holmby Hills, Beverly Park, Brentwood, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood and Venice. Grade Capital lends more widely, across the lower 48 states with the exception of Nevada.
Do I have to use all three services?
No. Most people come for one. A client who only needs representation still gets a team that has developed and financed the kind of property they are buying or selling.
Is there a minimum project size?
To be confirmed — Todd and Liz to set the honest answer for development and brokerage. Grade Capital’s floor is documented: $500,000.
Development
What does Grade take on as a developer?
Ground-up construction, substantial remodels, multifamily, and historic rehabilitation. Grade stays involved across all six phases — acquisition and feasibility, design, budgeting, entitlements, construction, and project management — rather than handing a project off between them.
How long does a project take?
To be written — needs real ranges from Todd. Entitlement timelines in Los Angeles are the part people most want a straight answer on, and the one most easily got wrong.
Can Grade take on a project someone else started?
To be confirmed. Glenroy is described on the site as a reconceived ground-up development, so there is a real example to point at if the answer is yes.
Buying and selling
Who is the broker on Grade’s listings?
Grade is a real estate development company. Brokerage services on its active listings are provided through Carolwood Estates, DRE #02200006, a boutique brokerage based in Beverly Hills.
Liz to confirm this wording — it describes the commercial relationship between the two firms, which is hers to state rather than mine.
Does Grade represent buyers as well as sellers?
To be written. The Brokerage page has a Buyer Represented Transactions section written and held back until there are transactions to list, so this answer and that section should land together.
Grade Capital
What kind of financing does Grade Capital provide?
Senior debt and preferred equity for ground-up construction, renovation and major remodel, acquisition and bridge, and multifamily construction. Loan sizes run from $500,000 to $50 million depending on the product, on terms of 6 to 36 months.
Full terms — leverage, rate and fees by product — are set out on the Capital page.
Does Grade Capital lend to owner-occupiers?
No. Lending is business purpose only, and secured against single-family, multifamily, mixed-use, retail, office, land and condominium assets.
How quickly can a loan close?
To be written — needs a real range from Jake. This is the question borrowers actually decide on, so a vague answer is worse than none.
Getting in touch
How does a conversation usually start?
By telephone on (310) 879-0026, by email at hello@grade.la, or through the form on the contact page. There is no obligation attached to a first conversation, and Grade will say plainly when something is not a fit.
Privacy Policy
Last updated 25 August 2026
Grade LA LLC (“Grade”) is a real estate development, brokerage and capital firm based in Beverly Hills, California. This policy explains what happens to personal information when you use grade.la or get in touch. It is written to be read rather than to be impressive, and it describes what the site actually does rather than everything it might one day do.
What we collect, and when
When you contact us. The form on the contact page asks for your first and last name, an email address, a telephone number, and what you would like to talk about. A message is optional. If you call or email instead, we hold whatever you choose to tell us. We use this to answer you and to carry out any work that follows, and for nothing else. We do not add you to a mailing list.
When you browse. With your permission, Google Analytics records which pages are opened, roughly where in the world the visit came from, and what kind of device and browser were used. It is measurement, not identification: we cannot tell who you are from it, and we have not enabled any of the features that would let Google connect it to a person — Google signals, user-provided data collection and granular location and device data are all switched off on our property.
Our web host records the ordinary technical information any web server does, including IP addresses, in order to serve pages and defend against abuse.
Cookies
Grade sets no cookies of its own. Google Analytics sets two, _ga and _ga_7PW0GGCHBK, which distinguish one visit from another. They are set only once analytics is running, which depends on where you are and what you have chosen:
- In Europe and the United Kingdom, nothing loads until you agree. No script is fetched from Google, no cookie is set and no measurement is sent unless and until you accept.
- Elsewhere, analytics runs and you can turn it off. The notice on your first visit says so, and at the foot of any page will change your mind at any time.
Your choice is remembered in your own browser’s storage, under grade.consent.v1. That single entry exists only so we do not ask you the same question on every page, and it never leaves your device.
Who else handles it
We use a small number of services to run the site, and each sees only what it needs to:
- Netlify hosts grade.la and receives contact form submissions, which it passes to us by email.
- Microsoft 365 carries our email, so anything you send us rests there.
- Google Analytics receives the measurement described above, where you have allowed it.
- Google Fonts serves the typeface this site is set in, and sees your IP address when your browser fetches it.
- Vimeo and YouTube are used for property films, and see nothing at all unless you press play on one.
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising — the two things California law gives you a specific right to refuse. Grade runs no advertising and carries no advertising trackers, so there is nothing of that kind to opt out of.
How long we keep it
Analytics expires on Google’s side automatically: event data after two months, visit-level data after fourteen. We do not have to do anything for that to happen.
An enquiry that does not become business — a question asked and answered, with nothing following — is kept for twenty-four months and then deleted. Holding a cold enquiry longer than that serves us no purpose and serves you none at all.
Where an enquiry becomes a transaction, the records are kept for seven years after it closes. Real estate carries record-keeping obligations of its own, and seven years clears them with room to spare.
Ask for yours to be removed sooner and we will, unless we are required to keep it — in which case we will tell you that, and why, rather than simply declining.
Your rights
If you are in California, you may ask what personal information we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, and ask for it to be deleted. We will not treat you differently for asking.
If you are in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, you may ask for a copy of your information, have it corrected or erased, object to or restrict what we do with it, and withdraw consent to analytics at any time without that affecting anything done beforehand. You may also complain to your data protection authority, though we would rather you told us first.
Ask by writing to hello@grade.la or calling (310) 879-0026. We will need enough to be sure the request is really yours before acting on it.
Children
This site is for people buying, selling, developing and financing property. It is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information about them.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. If it changes in a way that materially affects what happens to information already given to us, we will say so rather than rely on you noticing.
Contact
Grade LA LLC
Beverly Hills, California
hello@grade.la ·
(310) 879-0026