Print pageLen Tatem is a real estate asset management and policy consultant for developers and property management companies across the country. He has spent more than 30 years in the field of real estate and investments. His current focus is with business and portfolio sustainability analysis, property and portfolio repositioning and maximizing performance through capital planning, green and sustainable design, innovative marketing, rehabilitation and debt restructuring. Tatem is also active in coaching groups to prepare and execute Year 15 exit strategies, evaluating financing structure and assessing and restructuring asset and property management lines of business. He has been the architect of asset plans to restructure and reposition properties and portfolios in various areas of the United States. Believing the best consultants also remain practitioners, he now leads the Asset Management team at Community Housing Works in California.
Prior to being a consultant, Tatem was the Director of Finance for Harvard University’s Real Estate Corporation. This non-academic portfolio valued at over $2 billion included market-rate, rent-controlled and subsidized housing, hotels, warehouse and retail space, and office buildings. He was also responsible for the negotiation of more than $40 million worth of service contracts annually, in support of both its nonprofit and for-profit management companies. In addition, he supported the organization’s development and construction management department by conducting marketing and feasibility studies. Tatem was also involved with securing 501(c)3 bond financing in support of construction projects at Harvard and Boston College.
In addition to having a Master’s Degree in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from Harvard, Tatem has a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Rhode Island.
