An accomplished Real Estate Investment Banker and Broker with over 20 years of experience in a variety of complex real estate and debt transactions.

Bert Haboucha strategically advises those in need by serving as Principal of Atlas Capital Advisors. Seasoned and highly skilled, he performs a variety of complex services to help achieve your success whether in commercial, residential, or real estate investments.

Bert specializes in distressed debt and real estate turnaround opportunities, including acquisitions, dispositions, and lending platforms.

BIOGRAPHY

Atlas Capital Advisors, Bert Haboucha served as Senior Vice President of iStar and Region Head of a multi-billion-dollar portfolio. For 11 years prior, he held the position of Vice President and National Manager of Special Assets at Fremont Investment where he supported the growth of the real estate portfolio from $100 million in loans located in California to the nationwide $6.5 billion commercial real estate portfolio that Fremont held in 2007.

Mr. Haboucha was responsible for the asset management of structured finance and commercial real estate assets, with a high proportion of hotels, golf courses, water parks, movie theaters, condo-tels, condo and mix-use properties. His expertise consisted of undeveloped land, through entitlement, subdivision, and construction, to reposition existing properties.
Member of the firm’s special advisory committee.

Now leading the charge at Atlas Capital, he provides a wide variety of services including, advisory, asset management, portfolio acquisitions, foreclosure, and disposition work for banks, special servicers, portfolio buyers, private investors, litigation firms, and government agencies. Specializes in distressed debt and real estate turnaround opportunities.

Licenses & Certifications

• Counselor of Real Estate (CRE)
  The Counselors of Real Estate
• California Real Estate Broker

Advisor

Aron Youngerwood

Aron leads Lucrum’s real estate investment platform.  He has deep relationships within the real estate industry, including with brokers, lenders, servicers, investors and operators.  Aron has completed over 200 transactions totaling more than $10 billion across the logistics, industrial, office, apartment, hospitality, retail and mixed-use asset classes nationwide.

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As a former CBRE executive, Aron had the benefit of leading CBRE Global Investors’ loan modification and restructuring efforts for clients with over $5 billion of loans successfully modified.   He assisted CBRE on the recapitalization of existing assets and restructuring and modifications to existing loans (across different loan types and across the asset class spectrum), whether CMBS, agency, bank loans, debt funds or Life Cos. Modifications included forbearances, maturity extensions, loan principal reductions, interest rate and amortization relief, changes to collateral, discounted payoffs (DPO), deeds in lieu, release of guarantor liability and loan assumptions.

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Previously, Aron was an executive at CBRE Global Investors and GLP and worked on debt and real estate transactions and fund formations, including structuring, launching and managing funds with over $8 billion of capital raised from 80+ investors globally in multiple funds.   Aron started his career as a successful real estate and corporate attorney at prominent law firms in Los Angeles, New York and London where he specialized in mergers & acquisitions, real estate, investment management, and corporate transactions. Aron has represented various private equity and real estate funds, multi-national corporations and financial institutions. 

Aron holds an LL.M. from Harvard and an LL.B from University College London.