BRIAN WIRTZ
Managing Partner
Brian Wirtz has been acquiring and redeveloping large apartment communities for nearly 30 years. During the 1990s, he pioneered large-scale apartment redevelopment as an executive with AvalonBay Communities and Essex Property Trust. He has been responsible for the purchase of over 15,000 apartment homes valued at over $1.3 billion. He founded his own investment company in 1998 which later merged into the San Francisco office of The Bascom Group. Company founders are all alumni from the University of Wisconsin’s Real Estate and Urban Land Economics program.
Brian’s investment partners have included the largest life insurance companies and pension funds including CalPERS, Metropolitan Life, Mass Mutual, and Oak Tree Capital. Ultra-high net worth private investors include the family office of iconic office developer William Wilson III.