STEPHANIE SARKAR
INSTITUTIONAL REAL ESTATE
About

Stephanie
Sarkar

Institutional real estate investor, portfolio manager, author, and co-founder of Front Office Labs.

Her work examines how institutional real estate firms turn information into portfolio judgment—and how the systems beneath those decisions can be made more reliable.

Stephanie Sarkar discussing institutional real estate portfolio management
13+Years in institutional
real estate
20+Investment firms
studied
~170Portfolio-management
tasks mapped
19Recurring workstreams
defined
Professional Biography

Real estate, viewed from the portfolio level.

Stephanie Sarkar has more than 13 years of experience across portfolio management, acquisitions, and asset management in institutional real estate.

She served as a Portfolio Manager and Investment Director at Manulife Investment Management and previously worked in acquisitions at TriGate Capital. As Co-Founder and Head of Real Estate at Front Office Labs, she focuses on the operating systems beneath portfolio management: the information, workflows, controls, and institutional memory that support sound decisions.

Her perspective combines direct investment experience with research conducted across more than 20 institutional real estate firms.

BooksInside Real Estate Private Equity, published 2017 and updated 2026 by the Institute for Real Estate Private Equity Press

The Economics of AI-Powered Infrastructure, published 2025 by Front Office Labs publishing
SpeakingTEDx speaker at John Hancock Signature Series in 2019
EducationNYU Schack Institute of Real Estate - Master's in Real Estate Asset Management

BS in Economics