Investors, Advisors, Results

Bringing a Fresh Perspective to Office Opportunities

Silverline Equities is a real estate investment firm taking advantage of the increased urbanization of suburbia and the higher expectations for office users. We focus on dynamic workplaces in mixed-use environments with hospitality-level service. Our team has over five decades of combined experience creating value through all aspects of real estate ownership, from acquisition to asset management, property management, leasing, and dispositions. We bring a deep understanding of the local and regional markets, offering investors a true local sharpshooter advantage.

Investments

Silverline Equities was founded on the premise that there is a generational transition of office demand moving to dynamic, mixed-use neighborhoods. This shift, combined with the current deep discounts in office asset pricing, presents an opportunity for Silverline Equities to buy select office buildings well below replacement cost with the ability to increase asset value through leasing, operational excellence, targeted capital investment, and potential redevelopment.

Advisory

We provide owners of existing real estate portfolios, including family offices, banks and other institutions, an array of private-label advisory services, including asset restructuring, developing strategic asset plans, and executing on capital markets transactions.

Our Partners

We work closely with a diverse range of partners across the alternatives sector, including institutional clients, private equity firms, family offices, developers, and entrepreneurs. Our tailored approach begins with getting a deep understanding of each client's unique needs and investment objectives. Leveraging our expertise and extensive network, we provide strategic guidance and innovative solutions to thoughtfully capitalize on projects, from individual assets to entity-level transactions. By forging partnerships between operators and equity sources at all levels of the capital stack and across various investment types, we ensure alignment both culturally and at the deal level. Our mission is to empower our clients to achieve their financial goals while navigating the complexities of the investment landscape with confidence and clarity.

Our Team

Anthony Chang

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Anthony has over two decades of expertise with a strong emphasis on repositioning mixed-use spaces, coupled with twelve years as a market expert in the DC and Northern Virginia markets. Commencing his career at Rockefeller Center with Tishman Speyer, he later joined Hines, overseeing leasing, capex, and operations of trophy office buildings, honing his mixed-use repositioning skills. He was recruited to Broadway Partners involved him in nearly $2 billion in dispositions. Relocating to Virginia in 2012, Anthony, as a leasing broker at Cassidy Turley, added nearly 3 million square feet of agency leasing, in addition to select tenant assignments like Cvent's headquarters. Returning to the principal side with Washington REIT, he transformed a 3 million square feet portfolio across the metro DC area, handling over $2.5 billion in mixed-use asset transactions. As the Managing Director for Stream's Northern Virginia Office, he built a new leasing and marketing team to market leadership with 7 million square feet of assignments. Anthony actively contributes to the real estate landscape, serving on the boards of NAIOP Northern Virginia, the Fairfax County Economic Advisory Committee, and ULI Washington, where he's the current chairman. His educational background includes an MSc in Real Estate from NYU and a Bachelor's Degree in Government and Economics from Cornell University.

Barry Bass

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Barry has over three decades of real estate finance experience, having served as the CFO of several public and private real estate companies., including First Potomac Realty Trust (NYSE:FPO), which he helped to take public in 2003, and Carr Properties, a major office building owner and developer in the Washington, DC area, owned by JP Morgan’s Special Situation Property Fund and Alony Hetz, a real estate holding company traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. Barry was also the CFO of Holistic Industries, one of the largest multi-state cannabis operators in the country and the Chief Business Officer at Willco, a private developer/family office based in Potomac, Maryland. Earlier in his career, Barry was a Principal in Legg Mason’s investment banking group, Executive Vice President at The Artery Group, a Washington-area developer, and Vice President at Winthrop Financial Associates in Boston. Barry graduated with a B.A. in Government from Dartmouth College and completed coursework in Babson College’s part-time MBA program.

Portfolio

225 Reinekers Lane, Alexandria VA

Unique, off-market opportunity to invest in a preferred equity tranche with an established partner. The Property is located one block away from the King Street Metro Station in a mixed-use, master-planned development. It is across the street from a Whole Foods, and the dynamic King Street retail center of Old Town Alexandria is close by. The Property definitely meets Silverline Equities’ requirement of being in a strong location with an extraordinary Walkscore (97 out of 100) in a dynamic mixed-use neighborhood. Strategy is to finish building spec suites and lease up the vacancy.

In the News

April 11, 2025: Anthony Chang's New Office Investment Firm Closes First Deal (bisnow.com)

A new real estate firm that is looking to reposition office assets has inked its first deal in Old Town Alexandria.

Silverline Equities, founded in March 2024 by Stream Realty and WashREIT alum Anthony Chang and local real estate veteran Barry Bass, has invested preferred equity in the renovation and recapitalization of the 1980s-era office building at 225 Reinekers Lane. With the deal, Silverline is now a partner with owner Altus Realty on the 130K SF office building near the King Street-Old Town Metro station.

The partners declined to disclose the size of the investment, but they said it will allow Silverline and Altus to build out new spec suites in the building and launch additional leasing initiatives.

“We’re coming in with fresh equity to finish their business plan, which we totally agree on,” Chang told Bisnow.

Altus acquired the Old Town property in partnership with Acentris in January 2020 for $44.7M. The owner has signed 40K SF of leases over the last two years, and it is now about 70% leased, Chang said. He said he had known Altus' executives previously and it was one of the firms he wanted to work with after launching Silverline.

Although the office market has taken a tumble over the past five years, Chang said there is competition for office investment opportunities from those who are bullish about the future of the sector. He said Silverline was the “runner-up” on multiple deals last year before closing its first one. “It’s a little bit of an emotional roller coaster,” Chang said.

June 11, 2024: A New Generation of Entrepreneurs Capitalizes on Commercial Real Estate Dislocations - Urban Land Magazine (uli.org)

A new wave of midcareer commercial real estate entrepreneurs is capitalizing on what some call “once-in-a-generation” opportunities to invest in distressed or otherwise discounted properties in today’s market—especially in the office sector.

Nationwide, there’s been an uptick in new investment firms started by development and investment professionals with 10–25 years of industry experience—some of whom left major firms to do so. These firms aim to buy cheap offices and reposition them through leasing, capital improvements, or conversions to apartments.

Anthony Chang, ULI’s Washington chair and the founder of Silverline Equities in Washington, D.C., is among these professionals. So is Hai Chien Wang, a value-add investor who cofounded the D.C.–based Taicoon Property Partners just over a year ago. Read more

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Interested in learning more about real estate investment or advisory services with Silverline Equities? Contact us today to schedule a free consultation. We are here to answer any questions you have and help you develop a personalized investment strategy.

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