Michael Schor
Chief Investment Officer
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- Full Name
- Michael Schor
- Title
- Principal & Chief Investment Officer (also serves as Senior Counsel)
- Firm
- The Treeline Companies
- Firm Type
- Vertically-integrated commercial real estate — acquisitions, development, leasing, and management (NOT a startup/angel investor; the stub label "Angel Investors / Seed Round" appears to be a data error)
- Sector Focus
- Commercial and residential real estate — Class A office, industrial/warehouse, residential apartments and townhomes, and mixed-use developments
- Geographic Focus
- U.S. Northeast (New York City — Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island) and the Carolinas (North Carolina, South Carolina)
- Location
- Garden City, New York
Background
Michael Schor is a Principal and the Chief Investment Officer of The Treeline Companies, a value-add commercial real estate firm founded by Frances and Glenn Schor in 1985 and headquartered in Garden City, New York, with a second office in Charlotte, North Carolina. In his role as CIO and Senior Counsel, he leverages relationships with lenders and institutional partners to source and finance Treeline's real estate acquisitions. His responsibilities span acquisitions, investments, financing, and tenant leases across the firm's portfolio.
Schor is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center. Before joining the family-founded Treeline platform, he practiced law as an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, where he specialized in business finance and debt restructuring — experience that underpins his current work structuring debt and capital for real estate deals.
Treeline is a vertically-integrated operator that has completed aggregate transactions exceeding $1 billion. Its portfolio spans Class A office buildings, industrial facilities, residential apartments and townhomes, and mixed-use developments, concentrated in the New York metro area and expanding into the Carolinas. The firm's stated philosophy centers on "growing together" — growing relationships, success, and its portfolio.
Note: This individual is a real estate investment executive, not a technology/startup angel investor. The "Seed Round" investment stage and "Angel Investors" firm type in the source stub could not be verified and are inconsistent with all available primary sources, which describe a commercial real estate role.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Invests as principal in commercial and residential real estate, not startups — acquisitions, development, and value-add repositioning of income-producing property.
- Asset classes: Class A office, industrial/warehouse, multifamily residential (apartments and townhomes), and mixed-use developments.
- Financing-driven approach: as CIO he sources and finances acquisitions through relationships with lenders and institutional capital partners, drawing on his background in business finance and debt restructuring.
- Geography: focused on the New York metro (Brooklyn, Queens, Long Island) with active expansion into the Carolinas.
- Deal scale: Treeline operates at institutional size, with aggregate transactions exceeding $1 billion to date.
Notable Investments
- Garden City Plaza portfolio (Garden City, NY) — Treeline secured roughly $106M in financing for this office/commercial portfolio (per CRE Report).
- Industrial acquisition, Wilmington, NC — part of Treeline's expansion into Carolina industrial assets.
- Industrial acquisition, Gaffney, SC — a recent Southeastern industrial/warehouse deal.
- New York metro office, industrial, residential, and mixed-use assets — the core of a portfolio spanning Brooklyn, Queens, and Long Island.
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