Associate BrokerRon Epstein
Ron Epstein has been in commercial real estate since 1984. Initially, Ron managed transactions for the sale of small businesses at startup office, focused on the sale of restaurants and other FMCG businesses. He later moved to Polimeni in one of his two affiliations with the acclaimed Long Island developer; first in their commercial brokerage division, exclusively representing property owners and national retail firms.
After operating independently for several years, Ron rejoined his colleagues as Partner and Vice President of Polimeni International, to direct their renowned development program in Poland and their expansion efforts in Romania. His responsibilities required him to define, institute and execute the full scope of the development program from the ground up; directing the development of each project from inception to exit. He led resource training; financial analysis, site selection, entitlement, project planning & design, lease negotiation, management and asset disposition. Ultimately, more than 300 leases across six projects totaling 1.3 million square feet were brought to market. The success of this enterprise is made no less notable by the fact that it encompassed multiple legal jurisdictions, currencies, time zones and languages. While twice accepting the award for Shopping Center of the Year on behalf of the company at the annual CEE Retail Awards Conference, the first projects were sold for more than $120 million, yielding high double digit IRR’s.
Later, Ron founded Baltic America Properties, where he advised offshore investors on Polish assets, including co-sponsoring a multi-billion dollar French insurance pension fund on a $200 million acquisition run at a retail portfolio. Back in the US he represents and advises national developers and retail chains in New York state, recently advising and co-sponsoring a comprehensive proposal for an $80 million mixed use project in response to an RFP published by Town of Huntington.
Seeing their explosive growth and revolution of the residential industry, Ron has joined forces with RC Commercial Partners, the commercial division of Realty Connect USA, to ramp up and repeat their success in commercial real estate.