Scott Onufrey

Scott G. Onufrey is a Certified Public Accountant and career commercial real estate investment executive with more than 30 (now cited as 35+) years of experience across acquisitions, dispositions, portfolio and asset management, and investor relations. He currently serves as Executive Vice President, Investments at Peaceable Street Capital, a preferred-equity platform for owners of income-producing commercial real estate, where he sources and structures preferred equity capital for real estate owners and developers.

Onufrey is best known for his long tenure at Kimco Realty Corporation (NYSE: KIM), one of North America's largest publicly traded owners/operators of open-air, grocery-anchored shopping centers. He held senior roles there through the 2000s and 2010s — including Vice President of Investor Relations in the mid-2000s and, later, Senior Vice President and Managing Director of Investment Management (roughly 2012–2016). At Kimco he led the company's acquisition and disposition program and managed an investment and asset-management platform with more than $14.0 billion in assets.

After Kimco, Onufrey was President and Managing Partner of ALTO Real Estate Funds, a boutique private equity real estate platform running three funds that have invested in excess of $1.0 billion. Earlier in his career he was a Vice President in the Real Estate Investment Management division of J.P. Morgan — where he served as controller for the firm's Special Situation Fund and Strategic Property Fund, two of the world's largest open-ended real estate commingled funds — and before that an auditor and consultant at Price Waterhouse specializing in the real estate and insurance industries.

Onufrey holds a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. He has served as treasurer and a board member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers (NAREIM) and is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). He remains an active industry speaker, appearing on capital-markets panels such as IMN's Real Estate Private Funds conference.

• Instrument: Preferred equity — positioned as offering lower capital-risk exposure than common equity while providing stronger return potential than traditional senior debt. The firm markets itself on "speed, creativity and dependability."
• Check size: $1M–$35M per deal.
• Structure/terms: Preferred returns targeted around 9% plus profit participation of 10%–45% depending on risk/return; up to ~90% loan-to-value; terms up to 10 years; a 1% commitment fee.
• Property types: Income-producing commercial real estate — multifamily, self-storage, mobile home and RV parks, retail, industrial, and mixed-use.
• Geography: United States and Canada.
• What makes them say yes: Capable, experienced operating partners with income-producing assets that need flexible gap capital in the capital stack — Peaceable Street emphasizes partnering with "highly capable operators" and structuring bespoke solutions quickly.
• Personal edge: Onufrey's background pairs deep public-REIT transaction experience (Kimco's multibillion-dollar acquisition/disposition program) with fund-level structuring from J.P. Morgan and ALTO — he is a structurer of capital rather than a passive allocator.