Michael Orsak
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Mr. Orsak has been active in real estate for two decades years with versatile experience in student housing development, acquisition and asset management, as well as commercial mortgage underwriting.
Prior to joining Campus Advantage, Mr. Orsak held the role as Assistant Vice President for GMH Communities Trust acquiring properties for College Park Communities, its student housing division. During his tenure at GMH he participated in evaluating over $4.0B in potential investments and closed on over $1.1B totaling 51 properties encompassing over 30,000 beds.
Prior to joining GMH, Mr. Orsak held the titles of Director of Acquisitions, Director of Asset management and Director of Investments for American Campus Communities (ACC). During his five years with ACC, he participated in acquiring over $150M in student housing assets, charged with maximizing the value of a portfolio of $140M in assets and creating and maintaining the Five Year Business Plan utilized during the run up to ACC’s $212M IPO process.
Since joining Campus Advantage in May of 2007, he has successfully completed the acquisition of fifty properties totaling over $1.5B in total value on behalf of Campus Advantage’s partners. In total, he has played an active role in acquiring over $2.8B in student housing real estate.