Kahr Capital was founded in 2010.
Since then, we have worked with high-net-worth individuals and family offices to source, manage, and reposition value add investments in New Jersey and the surrounding region.
Principal – Joshua Kahr
Joshua Kahr is the principal of Kahr Real Estate Services, a training and consulting company that he founded in 2002 and that serves the commercial real estate industry. In 2009, he founded Metropolitan America, a real estate investment company that owns and manages apartment buildings in New Jersey. In 2020, he started Essex Suites, a coworking company, that opened its first location in Verona, New Jersey.
Prior to this, he held positions in investment sales at a regional brokerage firm and in acquisitions at a fund that focused on environmentally contaminated real estate. He also served for five years on the board of directors for Monmouth Real Estate (NYSE: MNR) and was an advisory board member of Assess+RE, a real estate analysis software company that was purchased by LightBox. He is currently on the advisory board of Clik.ai.
Mr. Kahr has taught real estate finance and real estate capital markets for Columbia University’s MS in Real Estate Development program since 2005. He has also taught graduate-level finance courses at Northwestern, New York University, and Georgetown University. For corporations, he has taught over 200 two-day seminars on Excel modeling and Argus.
Publications include two books on real estate market analysis, Real Estate Market Valuation and Analysis (John Wiley and Sons: 2005) and Beyond the Bubble (Amacom Books: 2007).
He has a Master of Science in Real Estate from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Reed College.