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Wharton Equity Partners Purchases Over $100M in New Properties

NEW YORK CITY-Peter C. Lewis, the company president, tells GlobeSt.com’s Jacqueline Hlavenka that the alternative asset management firm is setting its sights outside of gateway cities, seeking out properties in overlooked markets.

By Jacqueline Hlavenka | Updated on June 05, 2012

NEW YORK CITY-Wharton Equity Partners, an alternative asset management firm based on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, is taking its New York vision to secondary and tertiary markets, citing less competition for deals and compelling demographic trends. In launching its new multifamily strategy, the company has acquired more than $100 million worth of properties in the Midwest and Southeast, totaling 1,500 units in the northern suburbs of Chicago and in central Florida, GlobeSt.com has learned.

Peter C. Lewis, president of Wharton Equity Partners, tells GlobeSt.com that the company is “extremely bullish” on multifamily housing due to a confluence of factors including pent up demand, lack of new supply and a shift away from home ownership. “Another factor we study is where money is flowing, and we try to be contrarian in a lot of ways,” he says. “Somewhere after the crash in 2009 and having seen cycles, it’s almost predictable to see how capital reacts,” he says. “After a shock like we went through in 2008, it [capital] moves to safety, and in the environment we are in right now with low rates, it moves to current income.”

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