BAF Associates, Inc.
Real Estate Investments & Development
 
 
EXECUTIVES
 
Barrett Penan, CPA
President
 

Barrett, a CPA by training, brings over 35 years of real estate accounting and tax experience to the firm. Barrett overseas all operations at BAF. Barrett has acted as a senior principal in over 50 acquisitions comprising apartments, retail, office and hospitality properties. Barrett is an acknowledged expert in structuring complicated real estate transactions to maximize income tax benefits to investors. Barrett also is a founding partner of Penan & Scott, P.C. a medium sized public accounting firm located in Rockville, MD. Barrett earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Oklahoma and a BS with high honors from the University of Maryland.

 

Stuart Penan, CCIM
Executive Vice President
 
Stuart heads the acquisition and asset management departments at BAF Associates. Stuart has over ten years of experience throughout a broad spectrum of real estate sectors including acquisitions, property management, leasing, and financing. Prior to BAF, Stuart worked at Cohen Development Corporation handling the acquisitions, capital markets, and property management departments, overseeing a portfolio of warehouse and retail properties, and managed several large renovation and repositioning projects. Previously, Stuart was Vice President at Bank of American in Manhattan in the construction lending division, responsible for underwriting and structuring loans to large developers in NYC. Stuart worked at Grubb & Ellis in Manhattan on a team selling complicated development sites in NYC, including the Hard Rock building on 57th street and the corner of 86th Street and Third Avenue. Stuart performed & structured complicated financial analysis using Excel & Argus to model residential & commercial development deals, and investment sales. Stuart also worked with the Community Preservation Corporation sourcing and underwriting development sites in NYC for their opportunity fund. Stuart earned a Masters degree in Real Estate Finance from NYU, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Rollins College. Stuart is an Adjunct Professor at NYU, where he has been teaching Real Estate Portfolio and Risk Analysis for over five years. Stuart is a past board member of the NYU’s Master of Science Real Estate Institute Alumni Association. Stuart is a licensed real estate broker and holds the series 7 and 63 licenses.
 
 
 
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