As Managing Partner and Broker of Record for Arbor Realty Capital Advisors, Matthew Dobson brings a multi-disciplinary background in private and institutional investment sales and capital markets, having worked with some of the largest public and private owners of real estate in the United States.
His transactional work ranges from the structured disposition of ground-up multifamily development to privately and institutionally owned multifamily, mixed-use, retail, entertainment, and office property. He is an expert in the marketing, valuation, purchase, sale, financing, and 1031 exchange of income-producing property, and in the disposition, acquisition, and joint venture of core, core plus, value-add, and distressed assets.
He started in real estate at Marcus and Millichap, then expanded with Cantor Fitzgerald and the NGKF Capital Markets investment banking platform as a Managing Director leading one of the top producing teams in the Southwestern United States.
- 1031 exchangeSourcing, negotiating, and closing tax-deferred exchanges under tight constraints.
- Institutional dispositionStructured sales from ground-up multifamily to mixed-use and office.

