Aaron A. Swerdlin serves as a Vice Chairman of Newmark in the Houston office. Swerdlin has more than 25 years of capital markets experience and serves as the firm’s national practice leader for the self storage properties sector. In this capacity, Swerdlin steers the direction and development strategies of the specialty practice nationally.
To date, Swerdlin has led in excess of $15.9 billion in self storage transactions and just under $17.2 billion in overall transaction volume. Transactions have included single-asset property sales, portfolio recapitalizations and regional portfolio dispositions; some of these transactions are among the most significant ever completed in the self storage industry. Swerdlin’s experience encompasses several hundred transactions, more than 1,450 properties and in excess of 100 million square feet of self storage space.
Prior to joining Newmark, Swerdlin led the self storage group at HFF, LP. Additional career experience includes having served as the Senior Managing Director and Managing Partner at Storage Investment Advisors, LLP (SIA), national practice leader for the self storage advisory group at CBRE and director of acquisitions for Storage Trust Realty (one of the self storage REITs acquired by Public Storage in 1998).
PARTIAL CLIENT LIST:
- BayNorth Capital
- Baupost
- Blackstone
- Boston Capital
- Brookfield Asset Management
- Carlyle
- Clarion Partners
- CubeSmart
- Extra Space Storage
- Fidelity Real Estate Group
- Hampshire Companies
- Harrison Street Real Estate Capital
- Heitman
- Prudential
- Public Storage
- Rosewood
- Simply Self Storage
- SSG Development
- Storage Choice
- Storage Deluxe
- Storage Pros
- TIAA/Nuveen
- Walton Street Capital
- Wharton Equity
- W.P. Carey
Swerdlin is honored to have been recognized by a number of industry associations and publications for his consistent leadership and contributions. Among these honors, Swerdlin has been recognized as a Houston Business Journal Heavy Hitter more than six times, and as a CoStar Power Broker multiple times. Swerdlin is also privileged to have been named, multiple times, a Chairman’s Circle recipient at Newmark.
Outside of his professional career, Swerdlin has served on the board of trustees for a local school board as a past Vice President of Finance and Treasury. Swerdlin also served on the board of trustees for the Jewish Federation of Greater Houston, and has served on multiple subcommittees with other local organizations. He also completed an appointment as a commissioner with the city of Bellaire. Swerdlin is married with two children.