American Realty Advisors is an investment management firm of institutional quality commercial real estate portfolios that focuses on providing superior risk-adjusted real estate returns. The firm provides advisory services in real estate transactions, asset and portfolio takeover and transition, management of financing and refinancing of assets, transfer of assets and recapitalization of troubled portfolios. It also provides equity, preferred equity, mezzanine debt, debt and hybrid debt to primary investors and developers operating throughout the United States. It was founded in 1988 and is based in Glendale, California.