Jonathan Keren

Real Estate Finance at Twin Spruce Capital

New York, New York, United States

About

Experience

  • Senior Investment Associate at Twin Spruce Capital
    Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Olive Tree Holdings (New York City Metropolitan Area)
    • Senior Investment Associate
      Jan 2023 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr

      • Designed and constructed the investment framework for multifamily acquisitions, specifically targeting opportunistic and deep value add deals • Established myself as an indispensable team member within the Affordable Housing platform, responsible for constructing creative, flexible, and agile financial solutions as well as devising a standardized approach to evaluating and determining the financial viability of LIHTC transactions • Collaborated with the Business Intelligence team to develop a data warehouse framework capable of normalizing, storing, cleansing, and managing data obtained from diverse sources • Utilized public and private data sources to create a market intelligence system for identifying and focusing on potential markets that are on the verge of experiencing significant growth

    • Investment Associate
      May 2020 - Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      • Underwrote hundreds of multifamily deals across various regions throughout the United States (primarily secondary and tertiary markets) • During my tenure as direct report to the head of Acquisitions, the team successfully underwrote thousands of deals and closed on roughly 0.5% of total underwrites • Was active member of the due diligence team for the closing of ~ 15 deal transactions with a total deal capitalization of approximately 500 million dollars • Executed on deals in Atlanta, Houston, Kansas City, Colombus, Indianapolis & more • Target Deal Metrics: Gross IRR >20%, Cap Rate Spread (Value Creation): >150 bps over market cap rate, Gross Proft per Unit > 20K • Typical Capital Stack: 75% – 80% Floating Rate Senior Debt, 20% – 25% Common Equity • Regularly performed assessments of previous transactions in collaboration with asset management to improve the underwriting process

  • Analyst- Real Estate Acquisitions at AR Global Investments, LLC
    Oct 2018 - May 2020 · 1 yr 8 mos

    • Responsible for performing acquisition due diligence, including reviewing leases, historical operating statements, budgets, third party reports, etc. • Create detailed financial analyses utilizing both Microsoft Excel and ARGUS to evaluate prospective investment opportunities which primarily consists of healthcare properties, including medical office buildings, ambulatory surgical centers, and micro-hospitals • Prepare investment memoranda and presentation materials utilizing Microsoft Word & Microsoft PowerPoint • Update internal valuation and projection models in order to analyze the financial performance of existing investments • Maintain and update deal pipeline database to track current deal flow • Audit budgets created by property managers to ensure operating expenses and capital expenses are budgeted correctly

  • Acqusitions Analyst at Triangle Capital Group, LLC
    May 2018 - Sep 2018 · 5 mos

    • Perform extensive due diligence, including but not limited to reviewing, analyzing, and interpreting various types of real estate documents, such as leases, lease abstracts, rent rolls, income statements, budgets, balance sheets, property condition assessments, and other information to support the underwriting/valuation process • Communicate with brokers to gain insight into different markets to help facilitate the underwriting process • Prepare cash flow models and valuation analyses using various yield metrics including cap rates, cash-on-cash returns, and IRR

  • Graduate Student at NYU School of Professional Studies
    Sep 2016 - May 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

    The MS in Real Estate program offered by the NYU School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate integrates theory, real-world application, and practice-based immersion in all phases of real estate from initiating and analyzing negotiating, financing, and closing transactions. Courses Include,but are not limited to Real Estate Finance, Valuation and Feasibility, Real Estate Capital Markets, Real Estate Finance and Investment Analysis, Acquisitions with Argus, and Asset Management.