About Us

Wilshire Real Estate Advisors is a fully integrated real estate investment and advisory platform founded and led by Michael S. Basile, a senior executive with more than 20 years of experience in distressed real estate, private credit, and complex redevelopment.


Successful investing in today’s market requires disciplined decision-making and precise execution. Wilshire combines hands-on operating expertise, rigorous analytics, and a proven track record across market cycles to help investors stabilize, reposition, and maximize the value of real estate assets.

Our Role

Our Role

Wilshire serves as:

Operating Partner

Delivering vertically integrated execution for investors and capital partners.

Asset Manager

Managing the day-to-day and strategic direction of distressed and transitional assets and loans.

Advisory Partner

Providing situational expertise in complex workouts, recapitalizations, and restructurings.

Core Capabilities

  • Distressed debt & property acquisitions
  • Special situations & workouts
  • Loan purchases, note sales, and discounted payoffs
  • Market & asset repositioning strategies
  • Asset management & loan servicing
  • Expense assessment & control
  • Business plan development & recapitalization strategies
  • Tax Lien Advisory & Acquisition Strategies
  • Special Servicing & Receivership Oversight
  • Tenant retention & leasing strategy formulation
  • JV structuring & equity recapitalizations
  • Redevelopment & adaptive reuse strategies
  • Asset valuation, investment return & sensitivity analysis
  • Credit underwriting & financial performance analysis
  • Construction, CapEx & tenant improvement management
  • Buy/hold/sell analysis & liquidation strategies

Our Approach

Wilshire focuses on troubled and transitional assets that require stabilization, ownership restructuring, recapitalization, or repositioning, as well as performing assets where proactive operating strategies can drive incremental returns and mitigate future risks.