About
Formed in 1991, Oak Realty Group, Inc. originally provided real estate and financial consulting services to public and private entities in “work-out” situations. In 2001 the focus was expanded to seek out and invest in high quality office, medical office and industrial properties with the core objective to create long-term value while providing predictable and increasing returns to its investors with a strict focus on capital preservation.
In 2009 the principals expanded the company’s reach yet again and formed Oak Residential Partners, LLC which expanded the platform to include the acquisition of multifamily assets.
The principals 125+ years of collective experience provides industry counterparts with speed and certainty of execution, while also providing co-investors sound judgment in making critical decisions. The team’s professional experience encompasses acquiring, developing, managing and leasing more than $2.5 billion of multifamily, office, medical office and industrial properties across the United States along with property and asset management of over 2.0 million square feet of office and industrial assets and more than 25,000 multifamily units.
Team
Adam M. Levine
President, Oak Realty Group, Inc.
Managing Principal & Co-Founder, Oak Residential Partners, LLC
Adam Levine began his career in commercial real estate in 1992 and has since completed over $1.3 billion in real estate investment transactions. An entrepreneur throughout his career, Mr. Levine founded Oak Realty Group in 2001, acquiring commercial real estate investments with a continuous focus on high quality investment opportunities that achieve above market returns with capital preservation as the guiding principle. In 2009, Mr. Levine co-founded Oak Residential Partners, LLC expanding into the multifamily market with the same vision. Mr. Levine leads capital market activities and participates in all acquisition and disposition decisions for both Oak Realty Group, Inc. and Oak Residential Partners, LLC. He directs asset management and administrative activities for Oak Realty Group, Inc.
Richard J. Wise
Managing Principal & Co-Founder
Richard Wise has been involved in multifamily investment and finance since 1994, successfully completing over $1.6 billion in transactions encompassing more than 18,000 apartment units. Mr. Wise boasts a well-rounded background in acquisitions, dispositions, development, finance, asset management, and property operations. He offers extensive national investment experience, completing transactions in most major markets across the country. As a Managing Principal of Oak Residential Partners, Mr. Wise utilizes his broad experience and deep market knowledge of the multifamily industry to direct all investment, finance, and asset management activities for the company, as well as leading its national property acquisition efforts. Mr. Wise sits on the Investment Committee for both Oak Residential Partners and Oak Realty Group.
Greg Nieder
Executive Vice President
Greg Nieder began his real estate career in 1996, maintaining a continual focus on creating value in multiple commercial real estate asset types in various geographic markets. Mr. Nieder has completed more than $1 billion in investment transactions and has extensive experience in acquisitions, dispositions, asset management, development and repositioning, capital markets and commercial property operations. In his role as Executive Vice President focusing on commercial acquisitions, Mr. Nieder utilizes his diverse background to source investment opportunities, as well as develop and execute strategic plans that provide superior risk-adjusted returns while meeting the objectives of investors and partners.
Robert H. Hamor
Executive Vice President – Acquisitions/Capital Markets
Robert Hamor has 30 years of both institutional and private real estate experience contributing to the execution of over $4.5 billion in multifamily, retail, office, industrial, and land transactions including acquisitions, investment sales, joint ventures, and advisory assignments. As Executive Vice President at Oak Residential Partners, Mr. Hamor is in charge of spearheading the company’s property acquisition activity in the southeastern region of the United States as well as working with the company principals to coordinate the company’s capital market activities.
Matthew Cohen
Senior Vice President – Asset Management
Matthew Cohen has over 15 years of professional experience in the real estate industry, including 12 years of concentration on multifamily apartments. Mr. Cohen’s career has focused on the acquisition, asset and property management of institutional grade real estate. As Senior Vice President at Oak Residential Partners, Mr. Cohen is responsible for all operations, capital execution and asset management functions on Oak’s multifamily portfolio as well as coordinating due diligence and transitioning for new investments. He oversees a team of asset management, marketing and design professionals to oversee all operations of our multifamily assets and execute the value-add strategy on all new acquisitions.
Paige Danowit
Senior Analyst – Asset Management
Paige Danowit is the Senior Analyst in Asset Management. She started her real estate career at Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust (“PREIT”) as an analyst on their finance and acquisitions teams, which exposed her to retail real estate. Prior to entering the real estate industry, Ms. Danowit worked at Bloomingdale’s as an assistant buyer.
Eytan Peer
Vice President – Acquisitions
As Vice President, Eytan Peer is responsible for the identification, sourcing, underwriting and due diligence of new multifamily acquisition opportunities. His work includes the creation of valuation models along with securing property financing, asset management, and disposition. Mr. Peer began his professional career as an equity derivatives trader. In that role, he was exposed to a variety of financial markets, managed complex risk-adjusted portfolios, and gained a firm understanding of financial and derivative evaluations. Prior to joining Oak, he worked for Peer Realty as an Investment Analyst, where he evaluated a variety of new real estate opportunities for their equity-raising platform, including senior housing, multifamily, retail and office.
Adam M. Nadler
Acquisitions Analyst
Adam Nadler is responsible for underwriting and evaluating potential investment opportunities, primarily but not limited to the multi-family market. Adam participates in the due diligence process of acquisitions, provides support in the financing and equity placement of acquisitions through the preparation of investor presentation materials, and conducts further analysis and modeling of various projects related to the Oak’s existing portfolio.
Cosma R. Slaski
Corporate Controller
Cosma Slaski brings over 25 years of financial real estate accounting experience to Oak Residential Partners along with a strong background in SEC, Operational, and Tax functions. Prior to joining Oak Residential Partners, Ms. Slaski held a variety of accounting positions within the real estate industry. Ms. Slaski started her career working for the Samuel Zell Organization – Equity Group Investments “EGI”, where she worked in a number of challenging accounting positions including Tax Accountant, Senior Accountant and Assistant Controller. After leaving EGI, Ms. Slaski served as a Property Management and Family Controller for Joseph Freed and Associates, LLC “JFA”.
Beata Toth
Senior Accountant
Beata Toth has over four years of experience in the property management accounting. Ms. Toth started her career at Prairie Management & Development, Inc. in Chicago and held various roles within the company, which exposed her to different aspects of the property management accounting for the multifamily housing. Ms. Toth graduated with honors from Northeastern Illinois University with Bachelor’s degree in accounting and is currently pursuing to become Certified Public Accountant from the State of Illinois. Ms. Toth speaks fluent Polish.
Amy Wise
Design & Media Coordinator – Asset Management
As part of our Asset Management team, Amy Wise is responsible for the design and coordination of our property rebranding projects. This includes clubhouse and model unit finishes and furnishings, property naming and logo selection, and color selections. Additionally, Ms. Wise works with our property management team on marketing initiatives along with management and coordination of social media for the portfolio properties.
Leonard G. Levine
Principal & Strategic Advisor
Leonard Levine has been working in real estate for almost four decades. As a senior executive with VMS Realty in the 1980s, he structured acquisitions and syndications, and arranged financing for over 100 properties with a total value in excess of $2 billion. VMS had interests in apartment, office, retail and hotel properties. VMS acquired existing properties as well as developed them.