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In 2006, Mr. Muldavin became Executive Director of the Green Building Finance Consortium, a group he founded with the support of leading real estate companies and trade groups to address the private sector’s need for better valuation and underwriting tools and practices to enable an assessment of Green Building investment from a “fiduciary” perspective.
Scott Muldavin is also President of The Muldavin Company, Inc., a consulting firm serving the real estate industry. Prior to founding The Muldavin Company in 1999, Mr. Muldavin was a leader of the real estate consulting practice at Deloitte & Touché.
Mr. Muldavin is also a founding principal of Guggenheim Real Estate, a $ 4 billion private real estate investment company managing investments in properties, REITs, and high yield debt and an Advisory Board Member of Global Real Analytics, a registered investment company advising and managing over $1 billion of private REIT and CMBS funds.
For 25 years, Mr. Muldavin has advised the nation’s leading real estate companies including CalPERS, RREEF, Bank of America, UBS, Alaska Permanent Fund, Catellus, Equitable Real Estate, Standard Insurance Company, Merrill Lynch, Standard & Poor’s Corporation, and Freddie Mac.
Mr. Muldavin has been involved in the commercial mortgage-backed securities industry since it’s beginning in 1984. He was the lead consultant that developed the first commercial mortgage risk-rating system for Standard & Poor’s Corporation that initiated the $550 billion CMBS industry.
As a national leader of the Real Estate Financial Institutions practice for Deloitte & Touché, he worked with financial institutions like Freddie Mac and First Bank systems to improve their underwriting and servicing systems, assess risks in their mortgage portfolios, and estimate loan potential losses.
Mr. Muldavin has been involved in the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) market since the early 1980s advising clients including E.F. Hutton, Merrill Lynch, CalPERS and others concerning new REIT securities offerings and investment issues. As an investment committee member of Guggenheim Real Estate, he monitored the REIT market and participated in investment decisions concerning the allocation of nearly $300 million in REIT investments.
Mr. Muldavin has been involved in structuring and due diligence of real estate property and business transactions. He has completed due diligence engagements involving the acquisition of office buildings, retail properties, hotels, multi-family properties, industrial properties, large land parcels, mortgage portfolios, mortgage companies, commercial banks, real estate service companies and other real estate assets. As an advisor and Investment Committee member of Guggenheim Real Estate, Mr. Muldavin reviewed hundreds of retail, office, industrial and multi-family investment opportunities throughout the United States, as well as investments in mezzanine loans, B-piece investment, funds, preferred equity, and REITs.
Mr. Muldavin is a frequent speaker and has authored over 200 articles published in Real Estate Finance, Bankers Magazine, The Journal of Property Management, The Pension Real Estate Quarterly, Real Estate Issues, The Investment Property and Real Estate Capital Markets Reports, Institutional Investor, Builder and Developer, The Real Estate Accounting and Tax Journal, and other industry publications.
Mr. Muldavin has been recognized by the American Society of Real Estate Counselors and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, each of whom have awarded him their highest level of professional certification. Mr. Muldavin serves on the Advisory Board of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation’s Green Building Initiative, an international group created to foster cooperation on environmental issues between Mexico, Canada, and the United States.
Mr. Muldavin has a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies from UC Berkeley and a Masters in City and Regional Planning from Harvard University.
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