Owners. Operators.
Value Creators.
Twin Oaks is a diversified real estate investment firm founded in 2009 and headquartered in New York City, with more than $450mm of equity and debt transactions completed.
Contact UsAbout Us
Twin Oaks Equity Partners was founded in June 2009 to capitalize on the dislocation found in the real estate markets. Twin Oaks' underlying principle is that a disciplined, well-capitalized and experienced real estate investment team could succeed at locating and executing transactions with outsized returns, utilizing market challenges to their advantage.
Twin Oaks has completed more than $450mm of equity and debt transactions spanning multifamily, office, retail, and industrial assets.
Strategy
Our Approach
“Twin Oaks targets asymmetric investments where the return far outweighs the risk — finding great deals at terrific prices. Behind every great deal is an interesting story.”
Performance
Our Track Record
$450M+
Total Transaction Volume
40+
Deals Completed
17+
Years in Business
Investment Focus
Acquisition Criteria
Asset Class
Multifamily, mixed-use, office, retail, industrial, and medical office — with a focus on value-add and opportunistic strategies across property types.
Transaction Size
$10 – $50 million per transaction, targeting deals where Twin Oaks can apply hands-on ownership and asset management to drive outsized returns.
Geography
Primary focus on New York City and the Carolinas, with select investments elsewhere where compelling opportunities arise.
Our People
Meet the Team
William Yagoda is a founding principal of Twin Oaks, where he oversees acquisitions, all matters of financial reporting and investor relations. William was formerly at Madison Capital Management, where he focused on acquisitions nationwide. Prior to Madison, William was a Vice President at the Chetrit Group, a real estate company whose holdings include more than $1 billion of nationwide real estate including the Sears Tower. There, he completed transactions totaling more than $500 million, including properties in Manhattan, Brooklyn and North Carolina. Mr. Yagoda is a cum laude MBA graduate from Columbia Business School and received a BSc from the Stern School of Business at NYU.
Brian Yagoda is a principal at Twin Oaks where he is responsible for all matters of investment analysis, ranging from real estate equity and credit to real asset investments. Prior to Twin Oaks, Brian was a Director in the Structured Credit Group at Standard & Poor's Rating Services, where he analyzed a wide variety of complex credit securitizations, including CRE CDOs, CLOs, transportation ABS, and non-traditional ABS. At S&P, he was involved in the analysis and rating of transactions totaling over $300 billion. Mr. Yagoda earned his BSE, with honors, in Mathematical Sciences and Economics and his MSE, with honors, in Applied Mathematics, both from Johns Hopkins University.
Jeremy Feit has extensive expertise in a broad range of sophisticated real estate transactions. A graduate of Yale Law School and Columbia College, Mr. Feit has most recently focused on investments in multi-family, condos, retail, office and medical properties in Brooklyn, Manhattan and the greater New York area. Prior to co-founding Lincoln Oak Management, Mr. Feit was a senior real estate associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher. He has structured and successfully executed billions of dollars of real estate acquisitions and dispositions, financings, joint ventures, leases and development projects. He’s also the president of SSEJ, a nonprofit dedicated to assisting the Jewish community of Ethiopia.
Experience
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Mixed-Use / Multifamily
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Office
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Retail
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Hotel
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Industrial/Storage
Multifamily
| Extensive experience across mixed-use and residential assets in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Boston — including the Jay Portfolio, BK 7 Portfolio, and Uptown Portfolio. |
Office
| Broad experience in office and medical office across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and North Carolina — anchored by 3 Huntington Quadrangle, 50 Danbury Road, and 5 Wood Hollow. |
Retail
| Deep experience in neighborhood and community retail across New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Texas — including Harris Crossing, Shoppes at Woodhill, and Shop City. |
Hotel
| Hospitality investments across Florida and Texas — Gateway Grand in Gainesville, Holiday Inn Express in The Villages, and Red Lion Houston. |
Industrial/Storage
| Industrial and land investments across New York, North Carolina, and Nevada — including 7 Bushwick Place, Wilmington Industrial, and Arthur Kill Road Land. |
Contact Us
Email: wyagoda@twinoaksequity.com or byagoda@twinoaksequity.com
Call: 212-695-1245
Property Portfolio
Mixed-Use / Multifamily
Office
Retail
Industrial
Debt
Other Assets
Deal Geography
Mixed-Use / Multifamily
Brooklyn, New York
Jay Portfolio
Purchased to achieve scale in dense, high-barrier Brooklyn submarkets where mixed-use retail and residential rents enjoy strong secular growth.
Brooklyn, New York
BK 7 Portfolio
Aggregated to capitalize on fragmented pricing across small-balance Brooklyn assets, driving down vacancy through unified institutional management.
Manhattan, New York
191–197 Seventh Avenue
Secured to capture premium foot traffic and high-revenue retail leasing opportunities along a prime, supply-constrained Manhattan corridor.
Midtown, New York
948–950 Second Avenue
Positioned as a land-banking play to execute a ground-up luxury development in Midtown Manhattan.
Manhattan, New York
309 West 111th Street
Targeted to capture rent-growth upside by modernizing unit interiors in an appreciating section of Upper Manhattan.
Brooklyn, New York
460–462 Prospect Avenue
Acquired to exploit the supply-demand imbalance for quality multi-family housing in Brooklyn.
Brooklyn, New York
167 North 9th Street
Underwritten as a value-add multi-family buy to capture a ~6% current cap rate with clear upside to a 12% pro-forma cap through loft legalization.
Manhattan, New York
13 East 7th Street
Acquired to drive rental yields through hands-on asset management of a classic Manhattan pre-war walk-up.
Manhattan, New York
149 Avenue B
Targeted for a high-end single-family luxury renovation or boutique residential play in the East Village.
Debt
Parsippany, New Jersey
5 Wood Hollow
Structured as senior or bridge debt to secure a reliable, asset-backed yield against a dominant 300k sf New Jersey corporate asset.
Manhattan, New York
Uptown Portfolio
Issued to generate a strong risk-adjusted fixed return backed by cross-collateralized urban real estate.
West Chelsea, New York
162 11th Ave / 559 West 22nd St
Formulated as short-term bridge financing to fund high-margin development pre-development stages near the Chelsea High Line.
Old Tappan, New Jersey
200 Old Tappan Road
Financed to capture premium yields by backing a borrower converting outdated offices into modern industrial flex spaces.
Syracuse, New York
Shop City Shopping Center
Originated to capture safe, collateral-heavy debt service payments from a high-volume, credit-anchored retail asset.
Dallas, Texas
Plaza of The Americas
Provided as flexible middle-market capital to capture high interest rates on a major Texas mixed-use asset.
Cary, North Carolina
Windsor Commons / Waterford
Underwritten as construction financing to reap quick returns backed by fast-selling North Carolina townhomes.
New York, New York
980 Madison Avenue
Deployed to protect investor principal through a low-loan-to-value position on an ultra-luxury Upper East Side office asset.
Morristown, New Jersey
Morris Marketplace
Financed to secure defensive, stable debt yield derived from grocery-anchored community infrastructure.
Manhattan, New York
19 Kenmare Street
Structured to capture a high-yielding debt position on a low-vacancy residential building in Lower Manhattan.
Boston, Massachusetts
289 Walk Hill
Deployed as a high-coupon construction loan to capture development-phase yields in the Boston residential market.
North Las Vegas, Nevada
North Las Vegas Industrial
Advanced to monetize the booming demand for southwestern logistics by backing land development.
New York
Tremont Loan
Structured as a short-term, value-add renovation loan to capture high-margin fees and quick capital turnover.
Brooklyn, New York
BK 3 Portfolio
Originated as a low-risk, small-balance debt play cross-collateralized by stable Brooklyn apartments.
Texas
Villas at Sandrock
Capitalized as a bridge loan to collect predictable income while the borrower executes multi-family capital improvements.
Retail
Wake Forest, North Carolina
Harris Crossing
Acquired to execute a retail value-add strategy by re-tenanting underperforming suburban retail bays.
Columbia, South Carolina
Shoppes at Woodhill
Targeted for stable, grocery-anchored or necessity-based retail returns in an expanding South Carolina submarket.
North Carolina
Cheshire Commons
Underwritten to extract strong yield from a dominant, necessity-based neighborhood shopping center in North Carolina.
Pennsylvania
Pool City Plaza
Purchased as a high-cap-rate cash-flowing retail play along a highly trafficked Pennsylvania commercial highway.
Industrial
Brooklyn, New York
7 Bushwick Place
Formed via a joint venture to unlock the conversion and adaptive-reuse potential of a historic industrial building in a gentrifying creative enclave.
Wilmington, North Carolina
Wilmington Industrial
Underwritten to ride the regional boom in e-commerce logistics and supply-chain infrastructure across North Carolina.
Staten Island, New York
Arthur Kill Road Land
Land-banked to tap into the scarcity of large-scale industrial and outdoor storage parcels near New York transit lanes.
Other Assets
Gainesville, Florida
Gateway Grand
Underwritten to leverage consistent, recession-hedged hospitality demand generated by proximity to a major university and local medical centers.
The Villages, Florida
Holiday Inn Express
Acquired to benefit from predictable, leisure-driven hospitality demand within the world's largest master-planned retirement community.
Houston, Texas
Red Lion Houston
Bought strictly as a conversion play to repurpose under-utilized hotel infrastructure into high-density, attainable multi-family housing.
Brooklyn, New York
Nostrand Avenue
Secured as an opportunistic, shovel-ready multi-family development site in a high-demand residential corridor.
Office
Long Island, New York
3 Huntington Quadrangle
Acquired to capture high-yielding, credit-tenant cash flow by stabilizing a class-A asset in Long Island's premier corporate hub.
Wilton, Connecticut
50 Danbury
Target-acquired to capitalize on the resilient, recession-resistant demand for suburban medical office layouts and corporate campuses.
Raleigh, North Carolina
3604 Bush Street
Purchased to establish a footprint in the high-growth Research Triangle, leveraging stable medical office tenancy.
North Carolina
Clayton Summit
Structured to benefit from long-term, inflation-protected healthcare triple-net (NNN) leases in North Carolina.