Ben Tapper

Director of National Investment Services Group
Lee & Associates NYC
Ben Tapper headshot (summer 2019)
646.658.7334   (Office)
917.544.5350    (Mobile)
Commercial Brokerage
Real Estate and Property Services

Mr. Tapper has over 20 years of experience in the commercial real estate
industry. Throughout his career he has negotiated over $2 billion in real estate
transactions in every asset class from multifamily and mixed-use buildings, to
development sites, and single-tenant net leased retail and medical office.

Mr. Tapper is a widely known and respected broker in the New York City
marketplace, with sales of over 3,000,000 sq. ft. of property. His most notable
transactions include the $92.5 million sale of 875 6th Avenue, a 215,000 SF
property in Herald Square, the $90 million sale of 37 Flatbush Avenue, a 230,000
SF property in the heart of downtown Brooklyn, and the 18-building portfolio of
mixed-use buildings that Mr. Tapper exclusively represented on behalf of the Lee
Estate, achieving benchmark pricing of $107 million.

Mr. Tapper works with the complete range of investors; from the institutional and
nonprofit, to publicly traded and private family investors. He was selected to
exclusively represent the Ackerman Institute for the Family, and led his team to
achieve record pricing on this development site. His team also identified and
negotiated the acquisition of Ackerman’s new location with more space in
Madison Square Park, all while helping them significantly increase their
endowment in the arbitrage.

Mr. Tapper graduated from Cornell University and is a licensed Broker in New
York and Connecticut and is a licensed Real Estate Instructor in New York. He is
a member of the Cornell Real Estate Council and the Urban Land Institute, and
serves as Vice President of CompassionateLEE.

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