Howard Kozloff

Biography: Howard Kozloff is the Founder and Managing Partner of Agora Partners, a real estate development and advisory firm focusing on identifying and creating value-add opportunities in urban environments. Merging the often disparate skill sets of urban planning and real estate development and investment, Agora Partners is uniquely proficient in assessing development opportunities across product types and scales to capitalize on entrepreneurial planning. Agora Partners provides solutions for distressed assets, restrictive entitlements, and other challenging real estate scenarios through implementation and alternative investment strategies. Working throughout the country, Agora Partners employs creative real estate tools and techniques to leverage neighborhood improvement strategies, unlock value and improve local quality of life. Agora Partners focuses on increasing value through improved land use efficiency, urban design enhancements and optimizing density. Professional skill-sets also include structuring effective and equitable partnerships, identifying and mitigating deal risks and effectively managing the entitlements process. Agora Partners acts as both principal and advisor, partnering and working with public agencies and municipalities, developers, private landowners, private equity funds, family offices, commercial and investment banks and philanthropic trusts. Prior to founding Agora Partners, Howard worked in both development and consulting, managing opportunities ranging in scales, geographies, and asset types on behalf of small entrepreneurial firms, large public REITs and multi-billion dollar institutional funds. Howard has served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and the University of Southern California. In addition, he has published over 50 articles and speaks frequently on the areas of opportunistic urban redevelopment and planning.