About Us - Kent M. Swig | Halstead Property

Kent M. Swig
Co-Chairman

Kent M. Swig

Kent M. Swig is an owner of several real estate operating companies as well as commercial and residential real estate properties throughout the United States. His holdings and titles include the following:

Swig Equities, LLC
Mr. Swig is President of Swig Equities, LLC, an investment and development firm focusing on the acquisition and development of real estate in New York City and California. Since 2001, Swig Equities has purchased and/or is in the process of developing in excess of $3 billion of properties, which include holdings in Downtown Manhattan's FiDi (Financial District) neighborhood comprising of 110 William Street, a 900,000 square foot office building; 80 Broad Street, a 400,000 square foot office building; 5 Hanover Square, a 325,000 square foot office building; 90 Broad Street, a 400,000 square foot office building; 44 Wall Street, a 350,000 square foot office building; 48 Wall Street, a 324,000 square foot office building; 140 William Street, a 48,000 square foot office building; 770 Lexington Avenue, a 155,000 square foot commercial office building located in Midtown Manhattan; and, 450 Sansome Street, a 140,000 square foot office building located in San Francisco. In addition, Swig Equities residential properties include Sheffield57®, 322 West 57th Street, a 58-story mixed-use building comprising 576 residential units, 109,000 square feet of commercial office, 8,840 square feet of retail, and a 372-car parking garage; 112 apartments within the 198 unit residential building located at 401 East 89th Street; among others.

Terra Holdings
Mr. Swig is an Owner and Co-Chairman of Terra Holdings, LLC, a company that owns and operates several residential real estate service firms including Brown Harris Stevens, one of the oldest and largest residential real estate service providers operating in New York City, the Hamptons, North Fork and Palm Beach; Halstead Property Company, a residential brokerage and management company comprised of more than 550 brokers throughout the New York metropolitan area; and Vanderbilt Holdings, a service firm with disciplines in appraisal and consulting, insurance, and residential mortgage brokerage. The combination of Brown Harris Stevens and Halstead Property Company annually sell more than $6 billion of apartments and townhouses, and the company's management divisions manage over 300 buildings comprising more than 20,000 residential units.

Helmsley-Spear, Inc
Mr. Swig is the Owner and serves as President of Helmsley Spear, LLC, a leader in commercial real estate focusing on third party office and retail leasing, asset and property management, investment sales, and capital advisory services. The company was originally founded in 1866 with the legendary Harry Helmsley assuming ownership in the late 1930s.

Falcon Pacific Construction
Mr. Swig is also the Owner of Falcon Pacific Construction, LLC, a company responsible for the construction, renovation and repositioning of projects.

The Swig Company
Finally, Mr. Swig is also a Principal in The Swig Company, a family-owned real estate and hotel company based in San Francisco. The Swig Company's portfolio includes over 9 million square feet of prime commercial office space throughout the United States as well as The San Jose Fairmont Hotel, which is part of more than 50 hotels that comprise the prestigious Fairmont Hotels chain.

Prior to his current positions, Mr. Swig served as Executive Vice President of The Macklowe Organization, and specifically as President of Manhattan Pacific Management Company, Inc. where he oversaw the operation and leasing of a portfolio of more than 45 residential and commercial buildings in New York and Los Angeles with a market value in excess of $4 billion.

Prior to that, Mr. Swig was Vice President of Swig, Weiler & Dinner Development Company, San Francisco, (now known as The Swig Company), where he worked extensively with the company's Fairmont Hotels Group and directly oversaw the development, acquisition, financing, and management of the firm's portfolio of commercial office space.

After earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in Chinese History from Brown University, Providence, R.I., Mr. Swig attended Hastings College of Law, San Francisco, where he was selected for the Law Review.

Mr. Swig is active in a number of professional, civic and philanthropic organizations including serving on the Board of Governors of the Association of Builders and Owners of New York (ABO); the Board of Directors of the Realty Foundation, The Alliance for Downtown New York, and Wall Street Rising. Mr. Swig is also politically active serving on the Board of Directors of Business Executives for National Security (BENS) and as a former member of the Board of Directors of The Corporate and Congressional Division of The United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA), a private non-profit organization geared toward fostering a better relationship between the United Nations and the United States Government.

He serves on the Board of Directors of Central Synagogue, as president of the American Friends of The Jaffa Institute, and as Vice Chairman of the Real Estate and Construction Division of State of Israel Bonds where he was awarded with Israel's Peace Medal in 2003 at its annual luncheon in his honor. He was named the Realty Foundation of New York's Man of the Year in 2005, and in 2000 Big Brothers/Big Sisters of New York presented him with its Man of the Year Award.

Mr. Swig resides in Manhattan with his wife and two sons.