— OWNER-LED REAL ESTATE · BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA —
Real estate from the owner's side of the table.
L'Avance Capital & Real Estate represents and advises owners, investors, and developers across commercial, multifamily, hospitality, industrial, land, and select residential investment opportunities.
BROKERAGE · ADVISORY · DEVELOPMENT · INVESTMENT
— THE L’AVANCE DIFFERENCE —
Advice shaped by actual ownership.
Real estate advice is different when it comes from someone who has signed the loan documents, managed the renovation, handled the tenants, solved the operating problems, and lived with the outcome.
L'Avance is the owner-led practice of Josiah LaFrance, a South Dakota broker, investor, developer, and operator with more than 12 years of experience across brokerage, acquisitions, consulting, development, and property ownership.
Every engagement begins with the same objective: understand the asset, identify the real opportunity, structure the right move, and execute it without unnecessary noise.
— FOUR CAPABILITIES · ONE OWNER-LED PRACTICE —
Strategy that follows the property from idea to outcome.
BROKERAGE
Investment-focused representation for owners and buyers of commercial, multifamily, hospitality, industrial, mixed-use, land, and select residential assets.
EXPLORE BROKERAGE →ADVISORY
Clear underwriting and practical strategy for acquisitions, dispositions, valuation, repositioning, financing, operations, and portfolio decisions.
EXPLORE ADVISORY →DEVELOPMENT
Highest-and-best-use analysis, site strategy, feasibility, partnership alignment, leasing, launch, and exit planning for value-add and ground-up projects.
EXPLORE DEVELOPMENT →INVESTMENT
Selective direct acquisitions, joint ventures, and principal investment opportunities where experience, structure, and execution can create meaningful value.
EXPLORE INVESTMENT →— SELECTED EXPERIENCE —
Built through transactions, ownership, and operations.
MULTIFAMILY · SOUTH DAKOTA
Acquisition, ownership, operations, repositioning, financing, and disposition strategy across apartment properties—including 39-unit and 44-unit communities in the Black Hills.
COMMERCIAL & INDUSTRIAL · BLACK HILLS
Sales, leasing, valuation, expansion, and redevelopment strategy for income-producing and owner-user assets, including a 45,000-square-foot industrial and office property in Sturgis.
HOSPITALITY · BLACK HILLS
Ownership and operating experience across boutique hotels, motels, RV parks, furnished rentals, and short-term vacation properties.
LAND & DEVELOPMENT · SELECT MARKETS
Site evaluation, subdivision strategy, entitlement coordination, highest-and-best-use analysis, and development planning for residential and commercial land.
— WHAT GUIDES THE WORK —
Three standards behind every engagement.
01
OWNERSHIP PERSPECTIVE
Advice grounded in actual capital, operating responsibility, and long-term consequences—not theory alone.
02
STRAIGHT ANSWERS
Clear underwriting, candid feedback, and a willingness to say when a deal, price, or strategy does not make sense.
03
EXECUTION
A practical focus on what it takes to move from analysis to agreement, closing, improvement, operation, and exit.
— START THE CONVERSATION —
Have a property, project, or opportunity worth discussing?
Bring the asset, the numbers, and the objective. We will help identify the clearest next move.