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About

Pilot Real Estate Group

PILOT Real Estate Group was created in 2008 by Robert Rieger, Eric Schwartz, and Jordan Saper, each having more than 40 years of real estate experience, with the goal of creating a platform for investing their own private capital in real estate related transactions.

Since inception, PILOT’s objective has been to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns via its debt and equity platforms by investing throughout the capital stack while creating successful and long-lasting partnerships. With a hands-on approach to investing – together with the teams’ extensive experience in real estate development, acquisitions, finance, and operations – PILOT is able to provide valuable expertise to investors, partners, borrowers, and sponsors.

PILOT’s flexible investment mandate, significant nationwide network, and committed capital enables the company to close transactions across the US in an expedited fashion with certainty of execution.

Debt

PILOT specializes in providing short term bridge loans for a range of capital needs related to acquisitions, refinancing, capital improvements, note purchases, discounted payoffs, partnership buyouts, and construction. PILOT can creatively structure loans to accommodate the unique challenges and circumstances surrounding each transaction. As experienced and independent lenders, PILOT understands value creation and can participate in transactions whose characteristics may preclude traditional and other alternative capital sources.

Equity

PILOT targets well-located, undervalued assets where there is an opportunity to add value through capital improvements, changes of use, and strategic lease-up plans. PILOT has partnered with sponsors on the acquisition, development, and repositioning of commercial, multifamily, hospitality, and mixed-use assets in select markets across the country. The company’s investment strategy is centered on identifying market inefficiencies, recapitalizing, or repositioning assets, and maximizing value. Our team remains involved to support our partners and utilize our expertise over the life of the transaction.

STATISTICS

FOUNDED IN

2008

NUMBER OF TRANSACTIONS

90+

Aggregate Transaction Value

$600M+

Desired Deal Size

$5 - $25M

Where We Work

While PILOT considers transactions throughout the United States, the states highlighted on the map below indicate where PILOT has closed transactions.

Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Florida

Georgia
Illinois
Massachusetts
Michigan
Nevada

New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania

Rhode Island
South Carolina
Texas
Virginia
Wyoming