BOCA RATON, FLA. — Eastham Capital has hired Anthony Librot as chief financial officer. In the new role, Librot will be responsible for accounting, compliance and risk management for the private equity multifamily investment firm. With more than 30 years of accounting and financial experience, Librot spent the past seven years as the chief operating and financial officer at AAM 15 Management LLC, a Massachusetts real estate investment company, where he oversaw day-to-day operating and financial activities for a real estate portfolio of $500 million.
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DALLAS — Affordable housing developer, owner and manager Dominium has promoted Yvette Gallegos to vice president of operations. In her new role, Gallegos will oversee the operations department’s day-to-day activities and will play a key role in advancing organizational initiatives and strategic projects. Gallegos joined Dominium in 2012 as a community manager in Florida and advanced through leadership roles, including area manager and regional manager. In 2024, she was promoted to director of property operations.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Jordan McCarley has joined Cushman & Wakefield’s Carolinas Multifamily team. With the title executive vice chair, McCarley will lead the Carolinas team alongside Blake Okland, Paul Marley and Alex McDermott. The Carolinas Institutional Multifamily Advisory team is part of the firm’s Sunbelt Multifamily Advisory Group, which is an 85-person investment sales team covering 14 states.
BALTIMORE — Dana Caudell has been appointed executive vice president and head of multifamily operations for Baltimore-based Continental Realty Corp. (CRC). In this role, Caudell will oversee operations of a portfolio comprising more than 10,000 apartment homes across 38 communities throughout the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions. CRC is an investment and property management company active in 14 states with a portfolio valued at approximately $4.2 billion. Caudell joins CRC from Pegasus Residential, where she served as chief strategy officer. Previously, she spent six years as president of The Bainbridge Cos., …
NEW YORK CITY — NewPoint Real Estate Capital has promoted Geraldine Borger Urgo to president of agency lending. Borger Urgo, who was a leader in NewPoint’s acquisition by Franklin BSP Realty Trust earlier this year, previously spent about 15 years at Freddie Mac and was most recently NewPoint’s head of originations for the past four years. Separately, Nick Gesue will depart his role as chief executive officer, effective Sept. 1. His position was transitioned as part of consolidating leadership following the acquisition. NewPoint leadership will remain under the existing executive …
DALLAS — Franklin Street, a Tampa, Florida-based real estate firm whose services include investment sales and property management, has opened an office in Dallas and hired Chibuzor Nnaji as a managing director to lead a multifamily investment sales team. Prior to joining Franklin Street, Nnaji served as senior managing director at Global Real Estate Advisors (GREA). Dallas is Franklin Street’s 11th office. In May of this year, the firm opened its Nashville office, and in late 2024, it opened an office in Cincinnati, where the company’s student housing team is …
EL PASO, TEXAS, AND ATLANTA — Hunt Cos. Inc., an El Paso-based holding company with a focus on real estate, infrastructure and financial services, has acquired a majority stake in Carter, an Atlanta-based real estate investment and development firm. The companies have partnered on past development projects, including Prospect Lake Wire, a mixed-use development completed in 2024 in Lakeland, Florida, and The DeSOTA, an apartment community in Sarasota, Florida, completed in 2018. With this change, Bob Peterson, long-time chief executive officer and chairman of Carter, has announced his retirement. Following …
DENVER — Nick Steele has joined Lument to lead investment sales across Colorado, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Steele joins Lument from Berkadia, where he worked in the firm’s Denver office. Prior to Berkadia, Steele held senior roles at Marcus & Millichap and started his career at Apartment Realty Advisors. Over the course of his career, Steele has closed approximately $1.5 billion in multifamily sales. Lument is a banking and lending company that launched an investment sales division in 2024.
NEW YORK — KeyBank Community Development Lending and Investment (CDLI) has appointed Jon Burckin to senior business development banker on the equity distribution team. He is based in the firm’s New York City office and reports to Stacie Nekus, team leader for an equity growth initiative within CDLI. In this role, Burckin is responsible for raising capital and bringing in new investors for CDLI’s affordable housing equity syndication platform across the United States.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — Sarah C. Young will replace John Tomlinson as chief financial officer (CFO) of Bell Partners, a Greensboro-based investment and property management company. The transition will be effective upon Tomlinson’s retirement, which begins Aug. 22. Young will report to Chief Executive Officer Lili Dunn. After his retirement, Tomlinson will remain as an advisor to the company through the end of 2025. Young previously served as CFO and senior managing director at Quarterra Group, a subsidiary of Lennar, where she worked for 10 years managing financial operations and strategic …