Joshua Shatz, owner of the Dallas-based company, hasprofessionals on the ground in London, Baku, Kiev and Moscow.Shatz, who immigrated to Dallas in 1992 from Russia, is pushing aplan to marry foreign and domestic equity and debt to value-addpropositions in the US and Eastern Europe.

Shatz tells GlobeSt.com that he has foreign backing from hedgefunds and private institutional investors to fuel a plan targetingclass A and class B multifamily properties in Texas, NorthCarolina, New Mexico and Colorado. He says he's interviewingseveral well-known local brokers to join him to build a salesarm.

The investment list also includes land, with retail andunfinished developments part of the long-range plan. Shatz sayshe's also fielding "tremendous interest from US hotel owners witheyes for Eastern Europe and looking for partners to "navigate thelocal waters." In addition to the US, assets are being primed forinvestment, whether it's recapitalization or acquisition, inMoscow, Kiev, St. Petersburg and Baku, the capital ofAzerbaijan.