Greystar Expands Development with New Hires

Greystar Real Estate Partner has hired Jerry Brand and Ali Warner to further expand the company’s growing national development and construction capabilities.

Brand joins as senior managing director and will direct development efforts in the West, with principal focus on Seattle, Northern California, Southern California and Phoenix, and operating primarily out of the Irvine, Calif. office. Warner joins as managing director in the San Francisco office.

Brand has spent the past two years leading equity and debt activities for Pacific Property Company and Urban Housing Group. Prior to that, he was the managing director of Capital Markets and supported development in the west at Fairfield Residential. During his 19-year tenure at Fairfield, he sourced and structured more than $8 billion in apartment transactions with private and institutional equity partners and lenders.

Warner spent his past six years as vice president of acquisitions for Urban Housing Group sourcing multifamily and mixed-use development opportunities in Northern California. With Greystar he will continue to focus on development opportunities throughout Northern California and Seattle.