Analyst, Real Estate
Overview of Forum:
Founded in 1996, Forum is a purpose-driven Alternative Asset Manager, Investor and Developer across North America, with a focus on real estate and private equity. Forum works with its partners to achieve aggressive growth through innovation and consistent performance as a top-tier alternative asset investor. Forum oversees approximately C$1.6 billion enterprise value in assets under management and has transacted over C$3B of commercial activity since inception.
Forum is an entrepreneurial team working together towards a common goal of achieving Extraordinary OutcomesTM. Our core strengths are our agility, creativity and social responsibility. We encourage our employees to grow by empowering them with challenging work and abundant opportunity. We have a culture that emphasizes collaboration, open communication, continuous learning, humility and integrity. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that reflects the values of our firm – impact, integrity, diversity, innovation and high performance.
Forum’s real estate business is going through a transformational phase with a new Partner and team in place to take on a growing number of ground up development and adaptive reuse projects across Canada, with a target of $300 – $400M in annual pipeline.
The firm is raising its first real estate fund focused on core-plus stabilized assets in the multi-family sector. Forum’s Fund Gross Asset Value is expected to be over $2B by year 5. The fund will hold Forum’s pipeline of development assets once stabilized and will also acquire existing multi-family assets throughout Canada, with a focus on impact and ESG.
