Cambridge, Massachusetts
Commercial Leasing & Capital Services
Bield Secured stands as the premier real estate investment and tenant advisor, seamlessly integrating proficiency in commercial real estate with aptitude in capital allocation.
As a privately owned enterprise, Bield Secured offers genuinely impartial guidance and a market perspective that cannot be matched. Our overarching mission is to generate value for our clients by presenting thoughtful and executable ideas.
Bield Secured’s primary business centers on advising tenants, businesses, lenders, and investors on leasing, fundraising, special situations, and development. We have worked with clients ranging from members of the Fortune 500 to local families, and business owners.
Clients
Advisory Services
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Tenant Representation
Site selection and lease negotiations for occupiers of office, retail & industrial based on workplace and logistics strategies
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Agency Leasing
Our leasing ensures that your investment yields high value and long-term tenants whether for an individual property or a portfolio.
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Development Services
Advisors bring a long-term perspective that minimizes risk and drives value throughout initial development and construction.
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Portfolio & Asset Management
Managing office, retail, or industrial investment properties to reduce costs, mitigate risk, and enhance long-term value—while providing local expertise and sharing our best ideas to solve the challenges facing real estate owners and occupiers.
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Capital Advisory
Our capital formation services help partners with investment construction and executing value-driven capital deployment strategies.
We believe that trust is earned over long periods but can be lost in a moment.
We have established tremendous trust with our clients over the years by providing sound counsel grounded in experience, and market knowledge, and by approaching our work as owners in our clients’ business. Given that time-tested belief, we aim to regularly earn our clients’ trust by being right often and approaching all of our advice from the role of a fiduciary.
Meet Our Team
Reiley O’Connor, CAIA
Founder
Reiley O’Connor is the Founder of Bield Secured and Bield Holding Company LLC. Reiley is a broker and manages the organization’s daily operations and finances. In addition to these two roles, he oversees several ongoing development projects and investment partnerships with The Aspen Group, Gordon Brothers, and Arris Partners.
Before Co-Founding Bield Advisory, and later Founding Bield Secured, Reiley worked as a Sr. Product Manager at Amazon within Global Payment Products where he ran Amazon’s Prime Store Credit Card in Seattle. Reiley has also worked as a Development Manager at The Aspen Group and as a Project Engineer (Career Start Alumni) with Suffolk Construction. He has brokered a wide range of commercial real estate transactions representing tenants and landlords on assets including hotels, industrial, office, and retail. Reiley has led site selection and executed expansion strategies for several US consumer and technology corporations. He’s also led the development of numerous projects within Massachusetts. Reiley’s experience in construction, technology, leasing, and investment provides him with a rich understanding of markets and a wide range of real estate investment strategies.
Reiley received a BA in Economics from St. Lawrence University and an MBA from Cornell University. Reiley is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA). Outside of work, Reiley has been involved with YNG New England (YPO Next Generation – Chairman – 2019-2022) and founded the Annual (9th) “SLOC” Paddle and Golf Tournament. He has worked as a tutor at Boston Scholar Athletes and Co-Chaired the 2017 St. Lawrence Reunion. In his free time, he enjoys reading about value investment, hiking, ice hockey, tennis, golf, boxing, and spending time with family and friends.
He resides in Cambridge, MA.