I am a licensed sales associate and active with a local boutique realty company.I'm looking into starting one down the road.

This boutique service focuses on everything ranging from reducing property costs, to helping landlords best achieve high profits.  

Let's say you built a boutique building on a great market.

Let's say a boutique apartment building that costs 15MM to build.

@Josh Oden These data sets are easily available from industry databases like REIS (mostly MF, but they have commercial data as well), CoStar, Yardi and Axiometrics (used by syndicators as well as real estate groups in BB and boutique i-banks).

(For those not familiar with Houston, the heights is a trendy neighborhood near downtown that originated in the 1920s and is experiencing a lot of new commercial and residential builds including trendy restaurants, coffee shops, and boutique stores)I have currently have a 5000 sqft property with a 1100sqft house (simple 2bed/1bath) built in 1930 and restored about 10 years ago.

I have worked with hundreds of agents in every major franchise, and lots of boutique agencies.

Hey LA pros,I am a Florida Realtor and investor with a boutique investment brokerage in Tampa, (Circuitous Realty) but I primarily live in West Hollywood. 

@Craig Moore  also we work at a flat fee broker  12k a year  flat fee 100% shop after that.they are full service thoughthere are brokers in Oregon that are as low as 300 a month and a few hundred per transactionthe day of HUGE splits with the brokerage is long gone on the west coast.. the KW and REmax's of the world are usually 2 to 3X as expensive and many starting out are best served to go there as there is training and teams to get on.. once you have your clientele your either making so much money that 30k for brokerage is  nothing or you move on to the boutique brokers like we did.

Go boutique, you'll spend less monthly.Good luck!