Michelle L. Wolkoys
Principal
As a Principal of Meyers Builder Advisors, Ms. Wolkoys' manages consulting assignments throughout the Real Estate Consulting Practice and oversees the day-to-day operations of the Orange County office. Ms. Wolkoys has over 12 years of experience in the homebuilding industry and has consulted on all types of residential development throughout the Western United States including mixed-use master planned communities, consumer surveys, rental housing and condominium conversions, custom lots, large scale resorts, golf course communities, in-fill developments, mid-/high-rise condominiums, and adaptive re-use.  Various non-residential consulting assignments include Recreation Vehicle (RV) resorts, portfolio analysis, and industrial, office and retail properties.  Ms. Wolkoys specializes in on-going advisory services and manages all consulting assignments for several top ten public home builders through her direct involvement with land acquisition strategies, product development, segmentation and positioning.

More recent representative assignments include: lot-by-lot pricing and premium recommendations for The Strand at Headlands, an exclusive, beachfront custom lot community comprised of 118 single family lots along the coast in the city of Dana Point; product segmentation and pricing recommendations for Brighwater (a.k.a. Bolsa Chica wetlands) a 356 unit master planned community with 4 single family product lines in the city of Huntington Beach; and recurrent residential homebuilder portfolio analysis in support of acquisition due diligence for builder consolidation in Southern California.

Ms. Wolkoys is also regularly involved with strategic planning, market and financial feasibility, demographic and economic forecasting, absorption analysis, product planning, and market opportunity analysis for municipalities, investors, builders and developers throughout the Southern California region. These studies include various projections and multi-project development scenarios which require extensive experience in analyzing residential building trends of all types, and understanding the dynamics of any given regional market place and the positioning and potential of these projects within that market.

Ms. Wolkoys began her consulting career in 1994 as a Research Analyst with Hanley Wood Market Intelligence (formerly The Meyers Group).  She was promoted several times to land in her position as Managing Director between 1998 and 2006.  In October 2006, Ms. Wolkoys reunited with Jeff Meyers, the founder and previous CEO of Meyers Group, to form Meyers Builder Advisors – a new consulting firm that brings together the most talented and accomplished professionals with extensive experience in the homebuilding industry.  Together, they will develop long-term strategies to grow Meyers Builder Advisors into the industry's leading consulting practice