Ben Tapper

Director of National Investment Services Group
Executive Managing Director
646.658.7334
btapper@lee-associates.com

Ben Tapper is the Director of the National Investment Services Group and an Executive Managing Director in the New York office of Lee & Associates. He specializes in investment sales and capital markets.

Mr. Tapper has 17 years of experience in the commercial real estate industry. Throughout his career he has negotiated over $1.5 billion in real estate transactions in every asset class from multifamily and mixed-use buildings, to development sites, and single-tenant net leased retail and medical office.

Mr. Tapper is a widely known and respected broker in the New York City marketplace, with sales of over 1,500,000 sq. ft. of property. His most notable transactions include the $90 million sale of 37 Flatbush Avenue, a 230,000 SF property in the heart of downtown Brooklyn, and the 18-building portfolio of mixed-use buildings that Mr. Tapper exclusively represented on behalf of Lee Estate achieving benchmark pricing of $107 million.

Mr. Tapper works with the complete range of investors; from the institutional and nonprofit, to publicly traded and private family investors. He was selected to exclusively represent the Ackerman Institute for the Family, and led his team to achieve record pricing on this development site. His team also identified and negotiated the acquisition of Ackerman’s new location with more space in Madison Square Park, all while helping them significantly increase their endowment in the arbitrage.

Mr. Tapper is a licensed Broker in New York and Connecticut, and is a licensed Real Estate Instructor in New York.

Ben Tapper Bio