Michael Raday

Michael Raday joined Schafer Richardson as Senior Asset Manager in October 2024 with a primary focus on residential assets.  Michael brings more than 14 years of experience in commercial real estate including asset management and acquisitions responsibilities for Blue Vista Capital Management in his role as Vice President.  In his role at Blue Vista Capital Management, he specialized in the asset management of commercial real estate investments for Blue Vista’s various institutional private equity fund vehicles, and managed a portfolio of assets located throughout the U.S. in the office, multifamily, industrial, retail and hospitality sectors, and was directly responsible for major decisions, asset-level investment strategy and overall business plan execution.

Michael was also previously a Vice President of Acquisitions at Blue Vista, and specialized in the acquisition of commercial real estate assets across Blue Vista’s middle market equity series of funds via joint venture partnerships with sponsors/operators throughout the U.S.; primary focus was on value-add and opportunistic-type transactions in the multifamily, office, hotel, industrial, and retail sectors, amongst others.

Prior to Blue Vista, Michael was an analyst at Duff & Phelps in New York and performed quarterly valuations, appraisals, due diligence and fairness opinions of large portfolios of real estate debt and equity positions for major REITs, hedge funds, and private equity firms.

Michael holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Real Estate and Entrepreneurship from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

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EMAIL: mraday@sr-re.com