Brian L. Katz

Mr. Brian L.
Katz is a Co-Founder & President at American Real Estate Partners LLC.
He involved in all of the day-to-day operations of the Firm and is focused on the sourcing, acquiring, financing, capitalization and disposition of the firm’s Assets as well as the formation and day to day oversight of the firm’s discretionary fund business.
Prior to founding AREP, Mr. Katz spent 11 years with Cushman & Wakefield’s commercial Brokerage Group based in Northern Virginia.
There he leased and sold over 15 million SF of space in the Washington, D.C.
Metropolitan area, aided in growing and establishing C&W’s corporate and institutional practices, and was consistently recognized as one of the top brokers in the US.
Prior to Cushman & Wakefield he spent several years at the Evans Company, a regional development firm, where he was responsible for various portions of their portfolio of 2.5 million SF office portfolio.
He started his career in 1987 as a broker at Julien J Studley’s Virginia office.
He holds a Master of Science in Real Estate from Johns Hopkins University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Maryland.