Delivering Results
For Our Clients And Partners

MARC Real Estate Group is a strategic advisory and investment firm providing innovative, value-add solutions to financial institutions, real estate owner operators and private investors.

We are committed to delivering timely resolutions with optimal results on challenging commercial real estate situations.

Decades of hands-on experience

Four decades of real estate experience plus an expertise that spans across multiple disciplines and throughout varying economic cycles form the foundation of our initiative.

We harness and apply this knowledge with an inventive and time-tested strategy to tackle complex challenges and capitalize on opportunities that many times are overlooked.

This seasoned and methodical roll-up your sleeves approach provides a distinct advantage in reaching enhanced solutions while affirming certainty of execution for our clients and partners.

Providing services across the spectrum

Expansive Skill Set in Debt & Equity

MARC possesses deep banking experience and knowledge of the inner workings of lending institutions along with an inherent understanding of in-house resources and core competencies.

Our comprehensive scale of services combined with our breadth of expertise culminates in a broad perspective from a Lender, Borrower, Investor and Owner Operator’s viewpoint.

A decades long relationship and synergistic partnership with our affiliate, Taormina Holding Corp, compliments our ability to deliver full-service property management, cost-efficient construction and renovation work, and principal investing proficiency.

Focusing our strategy on maximizing value

Our key theme of advisory, management, and investing is dominated by a focus on value-add opportunities in select markets where we and our partners have first-hand knowledge and can provide specialized expertise.

A deep-rooted network of relationships allows for successfully partnering with prominent players in the industry to combine respective strengths when seeking to achieve broader objectives and undertakings.

MARC’s proven track record and reputation of integrity, together with our extensive skill set and capability to procure capital and financing, provide a compelling rationale to maximizing value in a variety of situations.

Management

MARC Real Estate was founded in 2009 by Ben Marciano, who spent over 35 years in the real estate industry. As President & Managing Partner, he is responsible for overseeing all aspects of MARC’s business activities. Ben established a successful career in real estate investment banking and commercial lending, developing an expansive skill set that encompassed a wide range of complex structures and high-profile transactions. Ben ran Eurohypo AG U.S., a German financial institution, and created two start-up ventures, Caliper Real Estate Advisors LLC and KGS Real Estate Capital Markets LLC.

Ben J. Marciano

Before founding MARC Real Estate Group, Ben served as Managing Director and Head of Eurohypo AG U.S. where he was responsible for all the bank’s businesses in North America, generating over $45 billion in transactions. Prior to his 10 years at Eurohypo, Ben managed the REO Department for Barclays Bank, mandated to reposition and divest of a $3 billion distressed portfolio burdened with litigation, foreclosures and bankruptcies, and directly restructured over 60 complex asset management projects. Previously, Ben served as a Team Leader/Senior Lender and Lead Workout Officer in the Real Estate Finance Department at JPMorgan Chase, and as a Project Manager for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Ben earned his BBA at Iona University’s Hagan School of Business, graduated from New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate, and completed JPMorgan Chase’s Credit Risk Management Program.

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