Ben Shaoul
American real estate owner and developer
Ben Shaoul
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Born | ( 1977-03-07 ) March 7, 1977 (age 46) |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | real estate developer |
Known for | co-founder of Magnum Real Estate Group |
Spouse | Megan Walsh |
Children | four |
Parent(s) |
Minoo Shaoul
Abraham Shaoul |
Ben Shaoul is a New York City -based real estate owner and developer. [1] [2] [3] He is the president of Magnum Real Estate Group, a residential real estate development and management company headquartered in New York City. [2] [4] Shaoul is best known as a prominent developer in the Manhattan borough of New York City. [1] [2]
Early life
Shaoul was born in Forest Hills, Queens , New York City to an Iranian Jewish family, [1] the son of Abraham and Minoo Shaoul. [5] His father ran an antiques business. [1] He grew up in Great Neck, New York . [1] [2] He briefly attended community college but dropped out at the age of 19. [1]
Career
After he left school, he interned for a summer with a New York-based developer run by the Ohebshalom family , (also of Persian Jewish heritage). [1] [2] He oversaw the renovation of his father's property and later took out a mortgage on the building. [1] [2] In 1998, he and his parents co-founded Magnum Real Estate Group. [6] In 1999, Shaoul used the proceeds from that mortgage to buy his first property, which was located on Mott Street in Nolita . [1] [7] Shaoul purchases buildings that have not been renovated for a long time and renovates them, and then increases the rent. [1] He primarily focuses on the East Village has added luxury apartments on top existing buildings. [1]
In 2013, Shaoul and Magnum Real Estate Group opened Bloom62, a luxury apartment building located in the East Village. [4] [8] Shaoul and Westbrook Partners sold a jointly-held investment portfolio of 17 properties for $130 million to Jared Kushner in February of that year. [9] He later partnered with SL Green Realty to acquire properties in Williamsburg, Brooklyn . [10] Shaoul also began developing a dormitory for the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan [8] [9] [11] and ventured into Tribeca where he purchased the top 22 floors of the 32 story art-deco Verizon Building for conversion to condominiums. [12] [13] In July 2014, he purchased the 199-unit Post Toscana on the Upper East Side and the 138-unit Post Luminaria in Kips Bay for $270 million to convert into condominiums. Both buildings have soon-to-expire tax abatements thereafter exempting them from rent stabilization rules. [14]
Shaoul has acquired and sold over 100 properties to include everything from the renovation of thousands of apartments to a $500M condominium conversion. [15] [16]
Personal life
Shaoul is married to Megan Walsh Shaoul. [2] They have three children: Henry, Piper, and Mayer. [2] He has been criticized for contributing to the decline of rent-regulated apartments in the East Village . [1] He was labeled "Sledgehammer Shaoul" after confronting tenants in a building he purchased and being photographed with construction workers holding sledgehammers and crowbars. [1] In 2014, he was sued by his parents for using the proceeds from the refinancing of co-owned assets to fund his development projects. [5] [6] The dispute was later resolved. [17]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Rebecca Flint Marx (July 6, 2012). "He Takes the Village" . The New York Times . Retrieved 12 July 2014 .
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Meet the Landlord" . The Real Deal . 2013-07-31. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14 . Retrieved 12 July 2014 .
- ↑ Josh Barbanel (March 12, 2012). "New Apartments, Plus Bridge" . The Wall Street Journal . Retrieved 12 July 2014 .
- 1 2 Konrad Putzier (November 7, 2013). "Hip young crowd planting roots at Bloom62" . Real Estate Weekly . Retrieved 12 July 2014 .
- 1 2 Amato, Rowley (2014-02-16). "Developer Ben Shaoul Sued by Own Parents for $50 Million" . Curbed NY . Retrieved 2021-07-22 .
- 1 2 Clarke, Katherine (2014-02-14). "Ben Shaoul's parents sue developer for fraud, theft" . The Real Deal . Archived from the original on 2016-01-27 . Retrieved 2021-07-22 .
- ↑ Max Abelson (5 February 2008). "Boy Developer Ben Shaoul Wants to Live Forever" . New York Observer . Retrieved 12 July 2014 .
- 1 2 Ivanova, Irina (2013-06-05). "Lower East Side nursing home reborn as lux apts" . Crain's New York Business . Archived from the original on 2022-01-28 . Retrieved 12 July 2014 .
- 1 2 Guelda Voien (February 1, 2013). "Kushner buys $130M portfolio of EV rental buildings" . The Real Deal . Retrieved 12 July 2014 .
- ↑ Adam Pincus (6 May 2013). "SL Green, Magnum pay $52M for newly constructed Williamsburg residential portfolio" . The Real Deal . Retrieved 12 July 2014 .
- ↑ C.J. Hughes (31 December 2013). "Where 600 College Students Live Above the Store" . The New York Times . Retrieved 12 July 2014 .
- ↑ Budin, Jeremiah (2014-04-11). "Details Revealed for Ben Shaoul's Verizon Tower Conversion" . Curbed NY . Retrieved 2021-07-22 .
- ↑ Barbanel, Josh (2013-12-05). "Old Phone Buildings Are Being Converted into Condos" . The Wall Street Journal . Archived from the original on 2015-07-12 . Retrieved 12 July 2014 .
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: CS1 maint: url-status ( link ) - ↑ C.J. Hughes (4 July 2014). "Buildings With a Past" . The New York Times . Retrieved 12 July 2014 .
- ↑ Mark Maurer (31 December 2013). "Ben Shaoul developing School of Visual Arts dorm" . The Real Deal . Retrieved 12 July 2014 .
- ↑ Strickland, Julie (2014-05-23). "Ben Shaoul: My parents' $50M lawsuit against me resolved" . The Real Deal . Archived from the original on 2016-03-07 . Retrieved 2021-07-29 .