Ben Lazarus

In May 2019, Ben Lazarus joined Wood Partners as a Managing Director in the Washington, DC Office. Ben joins Wood Partners after a successful tenure building a Washington, DC office for Carmel Partners, a San Francisco-based private equity fund. At Carmel, Ben managed the due diligence, investment committee approval, and acquisition of development sites totaling more than 1,800 residential units and approximately 50,000 square feet of retail space.

Prior to Carmel, Ben was a Senior Director with MAC Realty Advisors, a boutique Washington, DC-based real estate capital markets advisor with a focus on urban-infill, transit-oriented multifamily transactions. At MAC Realty, Ben led the marketing of joint venture and financing assignments totaling more than 4,200 units and $1 billion in total capitalization as well as investment sales totaling more than 3,800 units.

Ben attended Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and graduated with Honors in Political Science. Ben received his MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

Ben, a native Washingtonian, is an active member of the Urban Land Institute, the DCBIA, and the Washington, DC Real Estate Group. He has also been a speaker and panelist for events in the Washington, DC area including those sponsored by the DCBIA, Institutional Property Advisors, and the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.