Jeffrey S. Levien - Charlottesville, VA
Heirloom is the umbrella organization of the multi-faceted Jeffrey Levien who has paved a career in real estate, “edutainment”, and philanthropy. What does that really mean? Jeff follows his passions. He is privileged enough to do things like lead the Board of Directors of charitable organizations, teach at the college level, travel the globe to help those in need, and entertain publicly, all the while spending decades in the real estate industry in many capacities. As a founder, partner, or managing director at firms such as Scott-Lawrence, Street-Works, Greystone, and now Heirloom; Jeff has collectively transacted in over $3.5B of real estate projects with over over 700k sf under ownership in a broad range of asset classes from residential, office, retail, light industrial, mixed-use and non-performing loans. Throughout his career, Jeff has co-invested with, and advised, some of the most prominent firms in the real estate industry.
With a professional career of over 30 years (working with firms of 2 people to 5,000) and having experience being husband, father, attorney, real estate developer, private equity fund manager, mortgage banker, educator, humanitarian and, yes, even stand-up comic, Jeff’s greatest asset is the countless hours he has spent in numerous face to face encounters with others. Jeff has been blessed (or cursed) to sit side by side with, or across the table from, some of the most wonderful (and most difficult) and intelligent (and senseless) people in business. It’s from the ebb and flow, and frequent (and often humorous) misadventures of a meeting that inform the lessons intertwined in Jeff Levien’s sought after advice, individual professional endeavors, and engagements of public speaking and teaching, all of which he bottles into the excitement and determination in pursuing his continuous real estate ventures.
In interviews with colleagues, Jeff has been described as someone that is “fair, tough, ethical and knows what a person is thinking before they do” (not in a creepy witch kind of way), as well as “a genuine person who displays compassion and without a doubt is a funny person who wants to enjoy life and its daily follies”. His students are quoted as saying “your course is the best I have taken in my entire life”. Jeff Levien has been published in several trade publications and has been a featured speaker for his involvement in transformative real estate projects. He actively lends his time to charitable organizations providing relief to those in need, including world health care, affordable housing, and animal rescue, to name a few.
Jeff received his B.S.M. in Finance from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University (’88), and a J.D. from Cardozo School of Law (’91). Mr. Levien, his wife, son, and their precious English bulldog, split time between an apartment in Manhattan, NY and a farm in Charlottesville, VA (cows included).
