Real Estate Consulting for Churches
Our mission is to invest our expertise into the local church to bless both the lives and the land.
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How We Serve
We are here to serve local churches with their real estate needs. Real Estate can often feel overwhelming for pastors and executive leadership. Our mission is to serve your vision and help you accomplish the dream God has placed in your heart. We are here to help guide you through the vision. Whether you are a young thriving church tearing down and setting up each week in an urban city or an established church looking to evaluate how you can steward God’s blessing in this next decade, we are here for you. We take a strategic approach to real estate. We here to help you and your team from A-Z. Our Key goals: To make your real estate a blessing and not a burden. And to create generational wealth for the church. It is time that the people are not simply giving to the buildings but that the buildings are giving to the people.
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About us
John Termini, is the founder and CEO of Lafayette Investment Group (LIG). The company was founded in 2019. After graduating college John worked for 7 years at CBRE in Global Brokerage in New York City. He worked on over 400,000 sq ft of leasing and investment sales worth more than $100 million dollars. After leaving CBRE, he worked at Hillsong New York City where he oversaw contracts and real estate in more than 100 different venues and later helped the church expand its real estate portfolio on the east coast of America and throughout the states. Up until 2021 he served as the Head of Global Real Estate where he helped the church evaluate its portfolio and help it expand, mitigate risk and presented opportunity in multiple cities in the United States and worldwide. He is passionate about the capital C church continuing to thrive. He is grateful to have been able to save churches tens of millions of dollars over the course of his 15 year real estate career and grow its generational wealth for years to come. He has an extensive network, advisory team and access to real estate relationships that will help the church innovate and take new ground in this next season.
Real Estate Consulting Services
Strategic Planning
Provision and passion needs preparation and a plan. We will help your team tailor a strategy for you. Take our custom church survey
Zip code analysis
Where are you people coming from? How many are there? how often do they attend in person? where should you plant or expand? We help answer these critical questions
Financial & Market Analysis
What is the building worth to you? Often brokers do not understand churches and churches do not speak brokerage. We are here to bridge the gap
Organize priorities & team
More than the hundreds of thousands of dollars we can save you, we can also provide time savings. Let us help priorities your real estate planning
Capital Raising Strategy
We can help make your vision come alive and help you find the right generosity strategy that works for you. We also look at revenue generating assets for churches
Level up your team
We consult so that we can help your team level up their skills, but also put systems and relationships in place to help you for years to come
Present Oppurtunities
Most churches do not have a real estate expert on staff. Consistently, for most churches real estate is the second most expensive line on their budget behind staffing. its our mission to serve you and your team in that capacity.
Building Blessing
Lets think differently when it comes to real estate. There is an opportunity for innovation. Let us provide you with several models we have evaluated and executed in different markets