Senior Director
Eric Aronsohn is a Senior Director at George Smith Partners, where he advises residential land developers and homebuilders nationally on capital markets strategy. He brings 15+ years of principal-side experience originating, structuring, and closing transactions across residential, commercial, and mixed-use assets nationally, with more than $2 billion in debt and equity transactions to his name over the course of his career.
Eric has spent 8 years of his career with Lennar, first with a (former) subsidiary, Rialto Capital Management, executing on value-added business plans and credit investments including residential land and developer capital solutions across the country; then with the National Land Finance Group overseeing land banking programs as the group facilitated a fundamental shift in the company's approach to land, culminating in the spin-off of Millrose Properties and the launch of new land banking partnerships.
Eric has been a key contributor on several large urban, mixed-use development projects where he advanced complex land entitlements, built partnerships with development partners, and led financing initiatives including construction debt, tax credit equity, tax increment, and other public financing instruments with Stockbridge Capital Group, Baylands Development, and as a private developer in the Bay Area. Notable projects include Bay Meadows, Hollywood Park, Treasure Island, and the Baylands. He has additionally worked in the real estate technology space as well as with private real estate investors in various capacities including acquisitions, capital markets, asset management, and dispositions.
Eric's comprehensive background within real estate provides him the ability to quickly and thoroughly understand, navigate, and negotiate complex stakeholder relationships and design targeted processes which maximize value and minimize friction.
Eric studied economics and international environmental policy at Connecticut College where he competed on the sailing team. He is based in San Francisco where he enjoys spending time in the mountains, on the water, and coaching his two kids in soccer and in life.
