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2025 The ApartmentBuildings.com 100 from Connect CRE
Dealmakers of the Year
- Arcus Harbor Real Estate Capital
- Berkadia Orange County & San Diego Mortgage Banking Team
- Birk Sklar Team, Kiser Group
- Brandon Polakoff, Avison Young
- Brendan O’Leary, Transwestern
- Brian Eisendrath, Institutional Property Advisors
- Brian Kuhn and Jon Reible, KeyBank Real Estate Capital
- Brian Smuckler, JLL
- Chad Musgrove, M&T Realty Capital Corporation
- Dan Blackwell and Mike O’Neill, CBRE
- Drew Fletcher, Greystone Capital Advisors
- Ellie Perlman, Blue Lake Capital
- Erik Anderson, Newmark
- Hailey Ghalib, Affinius Capital
- Harvey Russell, NAI Advent
- John Darrow, Slatt Capital
- Joseph Koicim, Marcus & Millichap
- Ken Wellar, Global Real Estate Advisors
- Kitty Wallace, Colliers
- Logan Lee, Moody National Companies
- Maggie Burke, Capital One
- Marc Renard, Cushman & Wakefield
- Mark Goodman, Goodman Commercial
- Michelle Herrick, JPMorgan Chase
- Neander Lima, Empire Group
- Regions Real Estate Capital Markets Multifamily Origination Team
- Sharon Karaffa, Newmark Multifamily Capital Markets
- Shimon Shkury and Victor Sozio, Ariel Property Advisors
- Simon Ziff, Ackman Ziff
- Tyler Hague, Will Mathews and Ed Thomas, Colliers National Multifamily Advisory Group
- Vic Clark, Lument
- Walker & Dunlop New York Capital Markets Team
- Steve Bram, George Smith Partners
- Thomas Olivetti and Taylor Sims, Northmarq
- Thorofare Capital Originations Team
- Tom Britt, SitusAMC
- Hessam Nadji, Marcus & Millichap
Brendan O’Leary, Transwestern
Brendan O’Leary serves as Transwestern’s Vice President. He is responsible for sourcing new development opportunities in Houston, Phoenix and Denver. He also manages projects under construction and facilitates asset dispositions.
Recent responsibilities include Portrait at Hance Park, a mixed-use transit-oriented development consisting of 340 multifamily units with complementary retail, and Derby Roosevelt, a 220-unit high-rise multifamily project, both in downtown Phoenix.
O’Leary is a program committee member with the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties’ Houston chapter and a member of the Urban Land Institute.
He earned a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.
These are some of the reasons why Brendan O’Leary was selected to receive ApartmentBuildings.com’s first annual AB 100 Dealmaker of the Year Award, which recognizes those who demonstrate creativity, skill and success in the multifamily industry.