MADISON AVENUE CAPITAL
Madison Avenue
Capital, LLC
Real Estate Asset & Investment Management
Chicago  ·  Illinois
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About
"Decades of sourcing and investment managing real estate holdings is engaged to ensure optimal income and returns. On day one, results become real. Past experience working with clients and funds, institutional and entrepreneurial, provide strategic, actionable decisions."

Commercial real estate has been my singular focus. Over a career spanning multiple business cycles and disciplines from accounting to tax, from investment to management, to realizing full cycle returns, I've acquired, structured, managed, and monetized income-producing real estate across every major asset class — industrial, multifamily, net lease, medical office and office. My experience also includes institutional ground-up new development from platting the site to putting the finishing touches on a 250 unit, vertical housing development. All comprise more than $2.7 billion in transaction and investment volume spread over more than 1,000 transactions…all executed across disparate markets and cycles.

Independence is a key perspective and very valuable attribute that is brought to each engagement. No brokerage agenda. No conflicting incentives. No internal mandates. What you get is pure investment analysis, deep market perspective, and a disciplined commitment generate the best possible result for each client and each asset.

Advisory
Commercial Real Estate Properties
Apartments  ·  Industrial  ·  Medical Office  ·  Retail  ·  Office

Acquisitions, asset and investment management go hand in hand with optimizing income from real estate individually, a portfolio or as part of a broader entity strategy. The need for this advisory practice is the lack of truly independent and structured advisory centered around client outcomes, not preserving transaction fees. Whether the client mandate is running a monetization process from procuring the best broker to making sure the closing of the sale is a smooth as possible, it's all about not missing out on the opportunities when they arise and mitigating the damage to an issue or problem — property, tenant or even the capital stack. Having been directly responsible for an acquisitions team, I'm keenly aware of the market challenges that exist and the potential for something new to impact market performance. I know how to do the highlights that follow as I've been doing it for decades: source acquisitions, performing a hold-sell analyses, financings, vetting and managing an investment sale team, managing an existing portfolio to peak performance…I step in as a dedicated, impartial advisor with the market depth and professional network to execute.

Leadership
Mark Lewensohn
Managing Partner

I have spent my career performing at high efficiency investment, development, accounting/tax and fund management organizations. My experience spans the full transaction lifecycle — from sourcing and underwriting through acquisition, asset management, and disposition — across industrial, net lease, retail, multifamily, office, and medical office properties. This depth of transactional experience ranges from lease approvals to providing buyer recommendations for a $450+ million portfolio monetization. My day-to-day interactions include capital markets, property and portfolio assessments, asset management and relationship building. I've also been a Board member, investment officer, head of acquisitions and a portfolio manager. All of these areas are related to each other and when put to use, achieve the best outcome.

Over the course of more than two decades, I have led or advised on transactions totaling in excess of $2.7 billion, navigating multiple market cycles and building a professional network that is available to every client engagement from day one. My practice is built on the conviction that the best real estate outcomes come from independent, experienced counsel.

Apartments
  • Analyzed largest private owner with 6k+ units
  • Repositioned 2 complexes for successful sale
Industrial
  • Expanded existing park to 13M SF with $200M+ equity
  • Sold multi-unit portfolio to sovereign wealth fund $450M+
Retail
  • Ran acquisitions efforts for almost 10 years
  • Generated 61% of profit while investing 45% of funds
Medical Office
  • Two asset types moving in opposite directions
  • Major consolidation within both asset types
  • Risk is expanding for both
Office
  • Two asset types moving in opposite directions
  • Major consolidation within both asset types
  • Risk is expanding for both
History
$2.7B+ Transaction Volume
1,000+ Transactions Closed
30+ Years in Market

My track record spans institutional portfolios and single-asset mandates, core markets and emerging opportunities, stable income plays and complex value-add strategies. I've operated through the full arc of commercial real estate — rising markets and corrections, tightening credit cycles and capital abundance — and I bring that perspective to every new engagement.

The numbers reflect a career of direct participation: deals sourced, structured, managed, and closed. Not advisory from the sidelines — but hands-on execution at every stage of the investment lifecycle.

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Phone
312-278-3644
Location
Chicago, Illinois
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