Carto is a full-service commercial real estate brokerage and development firm in Lexington, Kentucky.
We survey before we advise. Every recommendation we make starts with somebody standing on the ground.
What you came here to do.
Acquire, dispose, and underwrite commercial assets across Central Kentucky.
Find, negotiate, and hold the right space for your operation.
Take land from concept to certificate of occupancy.
Manage assets, facilities, and reporting with institutional discipline.
Thirty minutes. You tell us the ground. We ask the questions the record cannot answer.
We survey, overlay, and verify. You receive a written plan with the numbers attached.
We move through the work and close when the lines meet and the books reconcile.
Central Kentucky, county by county.
We cover nine counties and the cities within them. Each market page carries the terrain, the overlay, the transect, what trades there, and the frontage we manage. The ground is the unit we work in.
Open the GazetteerRecent dispatches.
The common area maintenance clause is where a landlord hides the cost basis a tenant will pay for a decade.
The renewal option is worth what the tenant can negotiate on the day it is exercised, not the day it is granted.
A sublease priced to clear quickly can give away the renewal right on the master lease a tenant needs most.
Where the lines met.
A transit adjacent assemblage repositioned from a vacant retail frontage into a mixed use anchor, with the entitlement and the utility confirmed before the first offer.
A land anchored master plan for a thoroughbred farm, organizing the parcels, the frontage, and the phasing around the contour and the utility the ground allowed.
A dated office building repositioned through a valuation that told the owner the truth, and a lease strategy that filled the vacancy the truth had revealed.
A mixed income senior housing project moved through a public hearing and a tax credit closing with the entitlement and the finance confirmed in sequence.