Michael Silberman

Michael Silberman is a Co-Founder and Principal of Element Property Company, a national multifamily real estate investment firm. He earned a BA in Economics from Colby College and has spent more than 13 years in the multifamily industry focused on acquisitions and asset management. Before founding Element, he worked at Olympus Property, a Fort Worth–based full-service multifamily investment and management organization (founded 1992, operating communities across roughly a dozen states), and earlier at The Bascom Group, an opportunistic real estate investment and repositioning firm.

In his most recent pre-Element role he oversaw a national team that grew and managed a multifamily portfolio valued in excess of $1 billion. That operating background — spanning acquisitions, asset management, due diligence, dispositions, and debt financing — is the core of his current role.

At Element, Silberman is responsible for day-to-day operations, including deal sourcing, asset management, due diligence, and debt financing. He currently oversees more than 4,500 units across multiple states in various stages of renovation. Element as a whole owns and operates 5,000+ apartment units valued at over $1 billion and describes itself as one of the country's fastest-growing multifamily investors. He resides in Westchester County, New York with his wife and child, and leads the firm's East Coast growth.

• Invests via direct acquisition of existing apartment communities, not startup equity — so "stage" here means the real-estate business plan (value-add, workforce, student, affordable, conversions/opportunistic) rather than a venture round.
• Element's stated strategy: acquire properties at significant discounts to replacement cost in "markets with strong growth fundamentals and limited new supply."
• Concentrates on secondary and tertiary U.S. markets (examples cited: New Mexico, Arizona, Tennessee, Florida) where value-add renovation can drive rent growth.
• Deploys roughly $250M–$500M per year in acquisitions; the firm has transacted $2B+ in multifamily historically.
• His personal remit — deal sourcing, due diligence, and debt financing — means a deal must pencil on basis (price vs. replacement cost), renovation upside, and financeability.