David Krantz

David is a Principal and Head of Capital Markets for RockFarmer Properties. With over 23 years of experience in the real estate industry, David has completed over $18.5 billion in transactions through a variety of disciplines including lending, private equity, and commercial brokerage.

David most recently was Managing Director and Head of Real Estate for Mirae. Within this role, David was responsible for all aspects of the business including overall strategy, investment activity, and capital raising.

Previously, Mr. Krantz served as Senior Managing Director within the Capital Markets Group at Savills USA, a global commercial real estate advisory firm. While at Savills, David was one of four partners overseeing a national platform focused on executing real estate investment sales, equity and debt transactions, regulated security transactions and capital market advisory services. In total, the team had worked on more than $5.5 billion of total transactions across 17.9 million SF in multifamily, office, hospitality, student housing, and land / development. Prior to Savills, David served as a Senior Vice President at CBRE in the Investment Properties Institutional Group focused on multifamily, residential conversion, and development transactions in New York City. As Co-lead in the Investment Properties Institutional Group overseeing the multifamily and development vertical, David originated and closed more than $2 billion of transactions representing both institutional and non-institutional clients. Deal highlights include Kips Bay Court ($620 million), The Buchanan ($270 million), River Tower ($390 million), 80 South Street ($390 million). Additionally, while at CBRE, the team was ranked in the top 5 Worldwide and achieved #1 ranking worldwide in his first year.

Earlier in his career, David was a member of The Praedium Group, an institutional fund manager, where he was responsible for the acquisition, asset management and disposition of assets in the U.S. While at Praedium, Mr. Krantz was responsible for all acquisitions, dispositions, financing, and asset management for investments made in New York City and the Midwestern region of the United States while supporting other efforts around the country. In total, David participated in the origination, analysis, and purchase of approximately 30,000 apartments and 4.3 million square feet of mixed-use, office and industrial properties. In addition to those responsibilities, Mr. Krantz was also the primary manager of four side-vehicle funds and an integral member of the firm’s primary fund vehicles responsible for execution of fund strategies and its portfolio assets. In total, David worked on approximately $5.2 Billion of transactions ranging from acquisition, financing, and disposition.

David began his career in the Commercial Real Estate Lending Group at Commerce Bank where he underwrote commercial mortgages for a broad range of clients as well as a variety of asset types including multifamily, development, office and retail.