Learn from Steve Evans, President of Sunstone Realty Advisors and Pure Multi-Family REIT about investing in real estate, building wealth, and how he launched a REIT with a $21M IPO and grew it to be a dominant industrial platform in Canada and then sold it to Blackstone for $3.8B.
What you’ll learn:
- His real estate journey
- How he thinks about real estate investing
- How to build wealth via real estate
- The REIT his company sold for $3.8B.
- Q&A
Speaker Bio:
Since 2003, Stephen Evans has founded, co-founded and led several successful real estate platforms encompassing over 400 real estate transactions valued in excess of $6 Billion, including Pure Industrial Real Estate Trust (“PIRET” TSX: AAR.UN); Pure Multi-Family REIT LP (“Pure Multi” TSX: RUF.U); American Hotel Income Properties REIT LP (“AHIP” TSX: HOT.UN); and Sunstone Realty Advisors. Under Stephen’s leadership, PIRET grew from a $20 million IPO to become one of the dominant industrial REITs in Canada with 186 properties throughout North America when it was successfully sold to Blackstone for $3.8 Billion in 2018. As CEO of Pure Multi, Stephen grew it from a $57 million IPO in 2012 to own more than 7,000 apartments in the US Sunbelt markets and sold the platform to Courtland Fund for $1.6 Billion in late 2019. As co-founder and Director of AHIP the company has grown to 179 mid-scale hotels in the US with numerous brands including Hilton and Marriott.