Fred Sands and Vintage Capital Group
Fred Sands is a highly successful business executive and investor, and the founder of Vintage Capital Group. After establishing and successfully building Fred Sands Realtors into one of the largest real estate and financial services firms in the United States (7th largest), Mr. Fred Sands successfully exited this business in a merger with Coldwell Banker and formed Vintage Capital Group. With a capital base in excess of $150 million available to deploy opportunistically, Vintage Capital brings decades of successful investment and operating expertise to create and build value over a wide variety of opportunities.
Vintage Capital Group’s investment strategy is to opportunistically invest in a wide variety of businesses and industries, with particular expertise in turnarounds of distressed companies, bankruptcies or other special situations. Investments may include the purchase of debt securities or direct investments of equity either on a control or minority equity basis. Vintage Capital Group will also consider providing bridge financings as well as sale leaseback transactions. Vintage Capital Group provides decades of operating expertise and management skills, navigating businesses through various business and economic cycles that challenge many businesses. Mr. Sand’s personal investment experience includes completing distressed asset purchases, turnarounds, earlier stage/pre-earning venture investments, as well as control buyouts.
Mr. Sands personal investments over the years have resulted in a return on capital in excess of an 8x cash multiple, a strong testament to the business acumen and experience covering multiple decades and having successfully navigated multiple economic downturns. Mr. Sands currently is a founder of both Vintage Fund Management and Vintage Real Estate. Vintage Capital Group will complete investments that are not consistent with the investment strategies of these two entities.
Fred Sands Attending ICSC Conference San Diego, CA, September 8-9, 2011
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Vintage Real Estate, a Fred Sands Company will be an exhibitor at the ICSC Western Division Conference (Booth #1821) held in San Diego, CA, September 8-9, 2011. Fred Sands and VRE are very interested in meeting national and local tenants and their representatives at the ICSC conference. Fred Sands and Vintage Real Estate are seeking exciting tenants to lease vacancies from their current portfolio of shopping centers which includesSouthBay Pavilion (Carson, CA), Wenatchee Valley Mall (East Wenatchee, WA), Far North Shopping Center (Albuquerque, NM),Moulton La Paz (Laguna Hills, CA), and Hamilton Crossings (Hamilton, OH).
According to Fred Sands, ”We’re looking forward to seeing everybody at the conference. Attendees will have an opportunity to learn more about our wealth of projects in development.”
Fred Sands and the leasing team are currently accepting meeting requests from national and regional retailers. To schedule a meeting at the event with Fred Sands, please contact Roger Burghdorf at 310-979-9090 or his assistant, Francesca Howard.
About Fred Sands: Fred Sands is the Chairman of Vintage Real Estate, LLC, a firm specializing in the acquisition and redevelopment of under-performing regional malls and large shopping centers. Vintage Real Estate is led by a team of seasoned senior executives. Fred Sands is also the Chairman of Vintage Fund Management, LLC, a private equity fund that was established to expand his diverse non-real estate private investment activities spanning more than two decades. For additional information regarding Vintage Real Estate, please go to: www.vintage-vre.com
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Fred Sands Career Highlights
Fred Sands is the Chairman of Vintage Real Estate, LLC, a firm specializing in the acquisition and redevelopment of under-performing regional malls and large shopping centers. Vintage Real Estate is led by a team of seasoned senior executives. Mr. Sands is also the Chairman of Vintage Fund Management, LLC, a private equity fund that was established to expand his diverse non-real estate private investment activities spanning more than two decades. Vintage Fund Management is led by a team of experienced private equity professionals and invests in middle market companies. Its investor base includes one of the largest state pension funds, a well-known fund of funds, banks, as well as high net worth family offices. It has outperformed 85% of all private equity funds in the United States.
Fred Sands is the former Chairman and sole shareholder of the second largest real estate and financial services company in California, and the seventh largest in the United States, including owned and operated entities in title insurance, home warranty, mortgage banking, and escrow. The company was staffed with 4,000 people in 65 offices, including franchised operations, and generated $9.8 billion in volume per year. In December, 2000, the company was sold to Coldwell Banker; (the franchised offices were not part of the transaction). Mr. Sands’ background also includes acquiring and turning around distressed companies, including FM and AM radio stations and insurance companies, as well as commercial real estate projects. He has developed hotels, office buildings, shopping centers, and high-end single family housing projects.
Fred Sands was honored as the recipient of the American Academy of Achievement Award. Former recipients of this prestigious award include U.S. Presidents, Nobel Laureates, and entertainment industry executives. He was also named one of the “Top 25 CEOs of the Decade” by California Business magazine and named one of the industry’s top 13 “Movers and Shakers” (nationwide) by the National Association of Realtors.
Fred Sands
