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Built to stay with your business as it grows.

FARE Group Holdings is a founder-led, veteran-owned advisory firm. We bring corporate real estate, robotics and operational advisory under one relationship, so the decisions that shape your cost structure are made together.

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Michael Fanfair, Randall Allman and Tommy Allman outside the FARE Experience Center

Why we built FARE

Tommy Allman, Randall Allman and Michael Fanfair in FARE polos at a 360 Business Council event
The FARE team at a 360 Business Council event.

Real estate today is transactional. Brokers chase the next deal and move on — the relationship ends when the commission clears. FARE was built on the opposite belief: the clients we serve deserve a partner who understands their entire business and stays with it as it grows.

We start with your structure, not the transaction — your space, your purchasing, your processes — and bring real estate, procurement, and automation under one relationship and one point of contact. Our model only works when yours does, so we play the long game, not the quick close.

Michael Fanfair and Randall AllmanCo-Founders, FARE Group Holdings

One front door. Three branches.

You work with one team across all three branches, with a single point of contact from the first call to the result.

FARE Group Holdings

Your single point of contact

  1. FARE Corporate Real EstateAlign your footprint with your strategy.
  2. FARE RoboticsAugment the team you already have.
  3. FARE Operational AdvisoryEnterprise purchasing power, without the volume.

Contact your FARE Group Holdings team

General inquiries: info@faregroupholdings.com. Or reach any of us directly.

Meet the team

One team across real estate, robotics and operational advisory. Select anyone to read their profile.

  • Portrait of Michael Fanfair

    Michael Fanfair

    Co-Founder & Managing Partner

    Michael Fanfair is a U.S. military veteran and co-founder of FARE Group Holdings. He brings 25 years of experience in procurement and supply chain, including work with an international company, and works with clients across FARE’s robotics and operational advisory engagements.

    Michael built FARE around a simple idea: a company’s space, operations and spend should be managed together, by one team that stays with the client as the business grows.

    • U.S. military veteran
    • 25 years in procurement and supply chain
    • Co-founder, FARE Group Holdings

    Our model only works when yours does, so we play the long game, not the quick close.

    From the FARE founders’ statement
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  • Portrait of Randall Allman

    Randall Allman

    Co-Founder & Managing Broker, SIOR

    Randall Allman has spent more than three decades advising companies on corporate real estate, specializing in industrial acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, investment sales and site development.

    He has represented numerous Fortune 500 companies and guided portfolios on national and global assignments. Before co-founding FARE, Randall served in President and Vice President roles at national real estate firms, including a Fortune 500 company. He is the Managing Broker of FARE Corporate Real Estate.

    Credentials

    • SIOR
    • Former President, SIOR Southeast Michigan Chapter
    • Member, National Association of REALTORS®
    • CCIM Candidate
    • 30+ years in corporate real estate
    • NAIOP Lease of the Year
    • Crain’s Detroit Business Lease of the Year
    • Multiple-year CoStar Power Broker

    Real estate today is transactional. Brokers chase the next deal and move on. FARE was built on the opposite belief.

    From the FARE founders’ statement
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  • Portrait of Michael McFerrin

    Michael McFerrin

    CEO, Kainos MRO Advisors

    Michael McFerrin brings more than 40 years of manufacturing and procurement leadership, with experience spanning General Motors, DSSI, CenterPoint Group and global sourcing.

    As founder and CEO of Kainos MRO Advisors, he works with the FARE team on Operational Advisory engagements, helping companies reach enterprise-level pricing on MRO and recurring supplies. His background in plant operations means every supplier transition is planned around how a facility actually runs.

    • 40+ years in manufacturing and procurement
    • General Motors, DSSI, CenterPoint Group
    • 18–25% documented savings on targeted categories
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  • Portrait of Tommy Allman

    Tommy Allman

    Senior Project Manager & Solutions Engineer

    Tommy Allman works across FARE’s real estate and robotics branches. He runs site-selection searches for industrial and commercial occupiers and has worked on more than 1 million square feet of transactions. As FARE’s solutions engineer, he maps facilities and deploys autonomous robots.

    Tommy is a licensed Michigan real estate salesperson. A former Division I baseball player at Oklahoma State and Jacksonville University, he earned his B.S. with honors from Oklahoma State’s Spears School of Business.

    • 1M+ SF of transactions
    • Licensed Michigan real estate salesperson
    • Former Division I athlete
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Credentials

  • Veteran-owned

    A U.S. military veteran-owned and led enterprise.

  • NVBDC certified

    Certified by the National Veteran Business Development Council.

    NVBDC, Certification of Disabled and Veteran-Owned Businesses

  • Licensed brokerage

    FARE Corporate Real Estate is a licensed Michigan real estate broker.

  • 100 years

    Of combined experience across the FARE team.

NAICS codes

For procurement and supplier-diversity teams registering FARE as a vendor.

CodeDescription
531210Offices of Real Estate Agents and Brokers
531390Other Activities Related to Real Estate
532490Other Commercial and Industrial Machinery and Equipment Rental and Leasing
541611Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services
541614Process, Physical Distribution, and Logistics Consulting Services
541690Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services
423830Industrial Machinery and Equipment Merchant Wholesalers
423840Industrial Supplies Merchant Wholesalers
425120Wholesale Trade Agents and Brokers
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  • Integrity
  • Leadership
  • Results

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