Matthew Burrows.
Matt Burrows, 34
Director of Acquisitions and Capital Markets at Kushner Companies
Matt Burrows has made his mark at Kushner Companies since joining the developer in 2011, two years after earning a bachelor’s in economics at Wake Forest University.
After nearly a decade at Kushner, Burrows was promoted to director of acquisitions and capital markets last December. He is now responsible for sourcing, analyzing and executing the firm’s acquisitions as well as its financing and disposition activities.
Burrows said he initially focused on a banking path while in college before pivoting when the financial crisis created challenges on the job front. He then pursued his master’s in quantitative finance at Hofstra University and landed an internship at Kushner right after graduation.
“In college, they kind of push you to work at a bank because that’s what provides the most jobs for undergraduates in the field, and I wanted to take that track. But it happened to be in the middle of a recession, and it was impossible to find a job offer that I wanted,” Burrows said. “Kushner provided what I thought was a very unique opportunity to learn about real estate investing and was a small enough company at the time to enable me to have an active role in the decision-making process.”
During the past 10 years, Burrows has executed more than $10 billion of transactions, including $1 billion of acquisitions and recapitalizations of more than 70 buildings in the Kushner Urban Multifamily Portfolio. In just the past year, he has facilitated more than $500 million of new acquisitions, including the construction of two mixed-use buildings in Wynwood, Miami, and more than a thousand garden-style apartments in the Virginia Tidewater region.
Burrows is very active with multifamily but also targets other property sectors such as industrial and hospitality, with deal sizes averaging in the $50 million to $120 million range. While Kushner continues to have many investments in the New York City market, the company has been more active in the past two years on the acquisitions side in the Southeast, especially in South Florida. —A.C.
