Phil Dawit
Managing Director, Axis Real Estate
Rockville, MD 20851
Phone (202) 805-5234
Property Types
Hospitality, Industrial, Office, Retail, Flex, Sports & Entertainment, Specialty, Multi-Family, Health Care
Markets
Boston, Charlotte, Long Island (New York), New York City, Philadelphia, South Florida, Washington, DC, Richmond VA
Languages
English, Spanish, Arabic
Bio
Phil Dawit is a distinguished professional with a decade of real estate experience.
Dawit has proven himself to be a trusted partner to stakeholders. Over the course of his career, he has been involved in the acquisitions, leasing, management, financing, and dispositions of over $2B in commercial assets.
Dawit is the Managing Director of QUASAR – a global real estate investment firm founded by former JP Morgan Chase national top producer, Kenneth Brown. He leads the expansion of the company’s commercial real estate business pipeline, oversees the development and implementation of QUASAR’s global platform, and heads the management of the company’s operations.
Prior to QUASAR, Dawit served as a Senior, Asset Management on Freddie Mac’s multifamily team. He oversaw the development and implementation of the quality control procedures – in cooperation with guidelines set forth by the FHFA – over its multifamily loan portfolio consisting of 30,000 properties.
Prior to Freddie Mac, Dawit was involved in the entire lifecycle of LCOR’s new development portfolio. His responsibilities included performing market studies for acquisitions, creating unit/amenity pricing structures, and tracking competitors to decide daily pricing recommendations against current market conditions. He worked across the Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Metropolitan markets.
Additional past experiences include serving as a Marketing and Business Development Manager at Quasar Property Management and Real Estate Limited Liability Company, and as a Portfolio Research Associate II at the Costar Group, Inc.
Dawit is licensed to practice real estate In the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Phil Dawit serves as a Co-Chair of the Urban Land Institute’s Pathways Scholarship Program and a Member of the Urban Land Institute’s Management Committee. He also serves as a Treasurer of the Sister Cities Committee for the City of Alexandria, VA. Dawit is – additionally – an Advisory Board Member of Lima, Peru-based BPS Global.
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