Who We Are

Founded in 1996, Pearlmark is focused on middle-market commercial real estate investments in both equity and debt. Pearlmark is headquartered in Chicago, with offices in Denver, Los Angeles, and New York and employs 30 professionals in acquisitions, capital markets, asset management, portfolio management, due diligence, and fund accounting.

What We Do

Pearlmark focuses on value-add real estate strategies across the U.S., providing investors the opportunity to invest through both equity and debt structures. This holistic perspective enhances Pearlmark’s approach to sourcing, underwriting, and managing its investments, which drives value for its investors. Pearlmark offers access to high-quality real estate through a variety of strategies and deal structures and works closely with institutional and high net worth investors to define objectives and deliver attractive performance results.

To ensure alignment of interest throughout the process, Pearlmark’s managing directors and managing principals invest personally alongside investors.

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Guiding Principles

TALENT
We invest in people with initiative and entrepreneurial spirit. Our team members’ diversity of skills, combined with an emphasis on collaboration, gives us a powerful foundation to deliver on the investment objectives of our clients.
RELATIONSHIPS & COMMUNICATION
We work tirelessly to develop and maintain mutually rewarding relationships with clients, investment partners, and industry colleagues through open communication.
RESULTS
We set clearly defined objectives with our investors and team to drive superior risk-adjusted performance. Pearlmark and its key principals contribute personally to our investment products to ensure alignment of interest.
INVESTMENT DISCIPLINE
We understand the importance of proactive risk management, having navigated changing capital markets over the past three decades. Capital preservation is foremost in our minds. We emphasize hands-on portfolio management supported by detailed financial analysis and market data across our clients’ portfolios.
ACCOUNTABILITY
We constantly strive to push the status quo. We pursue new ideas, hold ourselves accountable, and seek to exceed expectations. We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and mutual respect as tools for positive economic decision-making and enterprise management. We work to invest responsibly as a fiduciary for our clients and sustainably towards a better future.
LIVING FULLY
We promote active, engaged, and balanced lifestyles that enrich our people and their families. We seek to give back to our communities with time, talent, and resources.

Averaging over 30 years of experience, Pearlmark's senior leadership guides the firm's investment strategies and manages a team with a wide range of skills built through diverse private real estate and debt expertise.
Pearlmark Team

Pearlmark and its employees are active in various organizations that we believe build stronger and healthier communities locally and nationally.
Our Community
RISE @ GKP
The Ruby at Brookfield Square
Alligood Industrial Park
The Henry at Lake Houston