Peter Merrigan, Cagri Kanver, Wendy Craft, Selman Yalcin, and Daniel Rizza

Over 500 top tier real estate professionals gathered at the Dream Hotel, PHD in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District March 29^th to hear the family office expertise of Peter Merrigan, CEO of Taurus Investment Holdings, and Wendy Craft, CEO of Favara LLC, a family office focused on real estate and other sectors including venture and technology. The fireside chat was moderated by Daniel Rizza, capital markets specialist with Berko & Associates. This event marked the 14^th successful gathering in New York City of REDinNYC, New York’s premier real estate networking event, sponsored by Realconnex, which is the largest commercial real estate online platform.

REDinChicago and REDinMiami have also debuted this year with sold out crowds. REDinBoston and REDinLA will launch in late Spring.

Family office investment is one of the foremost topics of the day in the real estate and venture capital sectors. Wendy Craft, a member of the Family Office Association, emphasized the need for creating a bond of trust with prospective investors. This may take months or even years, but is essential if you want to achieve your investment goals and build the type of long term relationships that will enable you to secure investors from the family office sector.

Peter Merrigan, CEO of Taurus Investment Holdings, has worked with over 500 family offices since starting Taurus over two decades ago. The company has closed more than $3 billion in complex real estate transactions throughout the US and nine other countries.

The audience once again included many top real estate executives from the Tri State region including: Stan Listrokin, Urban Realty Partners; Greg Johnson, Nucotola Development; Silver Zhang, S+K Development; Lisa Dupuy, JA Jennings; Andrew Foley of Johnathan Rose; Chase Chehade, SoHo Properties;

Fred Plumelli, Vector Development; George Triarchou, The Durst Organization; Rich Tang, Lam Group; Greg Ruisi, Thor Equities; Marc Freund, Troutbrook.

REDinNYC will hold its next event on April 26^th at the Dream Hotel PHD 355 West 16^th Street . Please go to the REDinNYC site at www.redinnyc.comfor further details and information on how you can be a member of REDinNYC with numerous benefits for upcoming events, and real estate networking and business opportunities.