Stephen Harris

Managing Director at Birdsey Group

Stephen Harris is an accomplished finance professional currently serving as Managing Director at Birdsey Group since March 2024. Prior experience includes various roles at Arbor Realty Trust from August 2017 to March 2024, culminating in the position of AVP, Production Manager, with a history of progression through underwriting positions. Earlier career experience includes roles at CoStar Group as a Research Associate and an internship at Merrill Lynch, where assistance was provided in wealth management portfolio tasks. Stephen's background also features a role as Head Golf Instructor at Total Golf Experience, teaching children the fundamentals of golf. Stephen holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Auburn University, attended from 2012 to 2014.

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Atlanta, United States

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Birdsey Group

QUALITY and URGENCY are the two critical traits of a successful financial services firm. The Birdsey Group, LLC commits the highest levels of experience, efficiency and enthusiasm in order to exceed our client’s expectations and develop the trust necessary to be a valued addition of a deal team. The Birdsey Group, LLC provides financial services and analysis, including commercial and residential real estate loan underwriting, performing and non-performing loan file due diligence, MAI appraisal review and third party management, as well as property and market analysis to the Real Estate Investment and Finance industries. Birdsey Group provides these services to support activities like origination, servicing, asset management, whole loan sales and property management, as well as to support many types of commercial and residential real estate transactions and diverse financing structures that include fixed-and floating-rate portfolio loans, highly structured securitized transactions, B-Piece underwriting and commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loan assumptions. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, we have positioned staff in all regions of the United States. We actively provide our services in all fifty states as well as Puerto Rico and Guam. Our staff experience includes real estate appraisers and underwriters, due diligence analysts, real estate brokers, developers, property managers, accountants and many other valuable industry disciplines. Birdsey Group also provides commercial and residential construction through its affiliate Birdsey Construction Management The Birdsey Group Management Team: Sandford Birdsey - CEO Steve Williams - Managing Director Financial Services Russell Foster - Director BGC Underwriting Mickey Cole - Director BGR - Loan Review Mike Clark - VP of Construction Sean Schwartfigure - Director of Construction