About Us
Gary Avery
Avery Company
Although his educational background is in mechanical engineering, Gary spent his early years in “for sale” commercial real estate. Through the course of listing and selling commercial real estate, Gary was asked to market a United States Post Office property and, at a later date, a senior housing complex with services. The experience achieved by means of marketing and closing these two properties afforded him the ability to launch a business plan to exclusively act as a rainmaker in these two unique industries nationwide. Interestingly, there are many individuals and companies, including REITS, that own both net leased properties and senior housing. He has since spent many years acting as an exclusive finder of buyers and sellers for healthcare/retirement and triple net leased properties.
Throughout the years, Gary has learned the many complexities of leases as well as the truly complex nature of operating a senior healthcare/retirement facility. This has allowed him to not only be able to properly analyze an offering, it also helps him identify who of our long list of contacts would be best suited for that offering. Because of this and his many years cultivating relationships with those who buy and sell these types of properties, Gary has been very successful bringing together buyers and sellers.
Lawrence Kozoll
Avery Company
Larry has an extensive background in business ventures, including being part of a management team that established a large national furniture rental company in California; leading the turnaround of an ailing business; developing a new market for an engineering and design firm; and has been a principal and advisor with several small and medium sized business ventures.
Further, Larry has considerable experience in social/civic affairs, fund raising, economic development and work force development with various government, quasi-government and philanthropic organizations. In this capacity Larry has acted as a consultant/advisor to help design, develop and implement a diverse number of programs.
Larry is a graduate MBA and has lived through the complexities of and the issues facing companies seeking business mergers and acquisitions of properties such as yours and have facilitated the sale of a number of transactions throughout the US for over 19 years with the Avery Company.
Jolyon Wilde
AveryWilde Company
Jolyon began life in the United States working as a foreign correspondent for British newspapers but changed careers in the mid 1970’s after being introduced to Gary.
They started their professional relationship shortly afterward with Jolyon working as an agent and later as a broker in the commercial sector of the business focusing primarily on large and medium size apartment houses, office buildings and strip shopping centers. Later, when they became full partners as the Avery Wilde Company, they moved into the syndication business where they formed a number of highly successful limited partnerships comprised of similar types of properties.
In 1990, after many very successful years working together Jolyon, for family reasons, decided to return to his native England but has remained firm friends with Gary until now. Since moving back to the UK Jolyon, having taken a break from the world of commercial property, has indulged his two lifelong passions; horses and sail boats. He spent three years building from scratch a blue water 50-foot yacht, which is currently on her second circumnavigation of the planet. More recently he purchased and developed a fully equipped equestrian center in Devon, southwest England, for 14 competition horses to be trained in all three major disciplines, dressage, show jumping and cross country.
Due to the promising market conditions in the United Kingdom for elderly housing accommodations and the many years of successful experience by the Avery Company in the senior housing market in the United States, Gary & Jolyon have now decided to reunite, professionally, with Jolyon opening up the UK office of the Avery Company. Jolyon’s principal residence remains in Devon but he will be doing business, when necessary, from his office in central London. Jolyon will represent buyers and sellers of senior care homes, sheltered homes and nursing schemes in the United Kingdom, some of whom currently operate in the United States. His ability to bring capital to the US market as well as introducing US owners to the UK market will greatly improve the opportunities for buyers and sellers on both sides of the Atlantic.
jolyonwilde@averycorporate.com