Brandon Best

Associate Director, LAZ Investments, LLC

Brandon Best serves as Associate Director at LAZ Investments where he is responsible for the underwriting and asset management of real estate and venture capital opportunities. Brandon comes to LAZ with experience across a variety of functions in real estate at the intersection of investment analysis, data analysis, markets, property management, and relationships. He also brings experience supporting early-stage entrepreneurial start-ups.

He started his real estate career at UBS within the Real Estate Private Markets Research & Strategy group where he was exposed to institutional real estate asset management, supporting transaction research on over $1 billion in investment activity across all property types and all US markets. Seeking a closer involvement with the individual real estate assets, Brandon later joined the Simon Konover family office as an Associate on their Acquisition and Development team where he supported residential acquisitions, development, property management and dispositions in the Northeast.

Brandon holds a B.S in Business Management from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business.