About Maple Hill
Maple Hill Real Estate Investors is an independent real estate platform focused on both investing and strategic advisory.
The firm partners with experienced operators on real estate investments while also advising owners and investors on complex capital markets and transaction-related decisions.
Maple Hill works with a select group of investment partners and advisory clients and focuses on thoughtful, relationship-driven engagements.
Joshua Schwalbe
The firm is led by Joshua Schwalbe, an investment professional with over 25 years of commercial real estate experience across acquisitions, asset management, and capital markets. Over the course of his career, Joshua has served as an investor or advisor in more than $3 billion of real estate transactions.
Before starting Maple Hill Real Estate Investors, Mr. Schwalbe was a Senior Vice President at Atlantic Creek Real Estate Partners (“ACREP”), a fully discretionary real estate private equity fund with offices in New York, NY, and Palm Beach, FL. As a senior member of its acquisitions team, Mr. Schwalbe underwrote and analyzed more than $10 billion of investment opportunities. He helped the firm acquire 17 assets totaling over $625 million, comprising approximately 3,800 multifamily units and over 500,000 square feet of office and self-storage space. While at ACREP, Mr. Schwalbe managed and developed strong relationships with a large network of close to 3,000 real estate professionals, including operators, owners, brokers, developers, institutional investors, lenders, fund operators, and attorneys to maintain a pipeline of deal flow.
Prior to joining ACREP, Mr. Schwalbe oversaw acquisitions at Blackpoint Partners ("Blackpoint"), a NY-based real estate owner/operator. He was responsible for sourcing, underwriting, and managing value-add investments in office, multifamily, retail, and hotel assets nationwide. Before joining Blackpoint, Mr.Schwalbe was a Vice President at Savills LLC ("Savills"), where he focused on debt and equity capital raising transactions and advisory assignments.
Before joining Savills, Mr. Schwalbe worked as an Associate Vice President at DTZ Rockwood, focusing on investment sales, joint venture equity raises, and advisory assignments.
Prior experience includes working as an associate at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and then at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he worked in the equity research department and covered the REIT sector. In this capacity, Mr. Schwalbe valued real estate companies, analyzed market trends, and authored in-depth company and industry reports.
Mr. Schwalbe graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in Economics and History from Brandeis University and holds an M.B.A degree in Real Estate and Finance from Columbia Business School. Mr. Schwalbe is an Advisory Board Member of Crestlight Capital, an owner/operator of industrial and office assets in the Southeast and Midwest.