Michael T. Fay

Michael is an owner advocate who realizes the full value of an asset through creative, strategic positioning, in-depth market knowledge, and the ability to identify potential development opportunities. With an enviable depth of relationships, he has been involved in over $14 billion in transactions over his 38-year career and specializes in Capital Markets, REO, and note sales, as well as strategy and implementation for large, national corporate real estate accounts. Michael is Chairman of the U.S. Capital Markets Group Executive Committee, Managing Director of Avison Young’s Miami office, as well as the Global Director for the Asset Resolution Team Affinity Group.

Michael’s clients include institutional and private investors, REITs, hedge funds, national and local banks, insurance companies, major automotive dealerships, and commercial debt restructuring firms. Over the last 15+ years, he has assisted hundreds of financial institutions, lenders, and special servicers with their REO & note sales, including the FDIC in the sale and management of its assets. Michael also has extensive banking knowledge, having been a past founder and director of a local community bank, and has been involved in the selling of bank assets and notes dating back to the Resolution Trust (RTC) days where he handled the sale and disposition of hundreds of assets of every product type. He was also a co-contractor in the disposition of over 600 of the U.S. Marshals Service’s Southern District of Florida drug seizure assets over a five-year period and has extensive CRE sales experience within the federal and civil courts, including the U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, having been a court-appointed receiver, plan trustee, or court-appointed sales broker over the course of his career.