Charles H. Berman
Managing Principal and Vice Chairman

As managing principal and vice chairman, Chuck Berman is responsible for MacFarlane Partners’  investment activities, which include sourcing, negotiating and closing investments, along with cultivating and maintaining strategic relationships with real estate operating and development companies, real estate brokers, lenders, municipalities and other market participants. He also helps oversee the construction process of development and redevelopment projects undertaken by the firm and its joint-venture partners.

Chuck has 27 years of real estate investment, development and management experience. Prior to joining MacFarlane Partners, he was founder and president of Avalon Properties, a publicly traded real estate investment trust that, through a subsequent merger, became Avalon Bay Communities, one of the largest residential REITs in the United States. Earlier, he served as the Northeast regional partner and member of the management committee of Trammell Crow Residential Company, a national developer and operator of multifamily residential properties.

Chuck began his real estate career as a vice president with Eastdil Realty, and was a partner of American Realty Capital, a provider of equity capital for real estate development projects. He also is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Versity.com, an Internet start-up company serving the college market that was sold in 2000.

Chuck is a member of the Young Presidents Organization and the Urban Land Institute, where he serves on one of its Mixed-Use Councils. He currently serves as chairman of the New Canaan (Conn.) Housing Authority and is a former board member of SafeRent (sold to First American Corporation in 2002),  Rent.com (acquired by eBay in 2005), GetActive Software (merged with Convio in 2007) and Fairfield 2000, a non-profit developer of affordable housing in Connecticut.

Chuck holds a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard Business School and a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from Amherst College.