Blackfin Launches with 10 Offers for Class B Apartments Along Eastern Seaboard

Blackfin co-founders Andrew Buchanan and Doug Root

CLARENDON, VA–Two multifamily executives have left the comforts of established companies to form their own venture, which they are calling Blackfin Real Estate Investors. They are Andrew Buchanan, who spent the past seven years as president of Kettler and Doug Root, who was Greystar Investment Group’s managing director for acquisitions and asset management operations in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions for the past five years.

Now as Blackfin officially opens its doors, Buchanan’s new role is managing partner of the firm he co-founded,  overseeing joint-venture capital, finance and investor relations.  Co-founder Root is managing partner overseeing acquisitions and asset management.