DJ Van Keuren
Principal
DJ is a Co-Managing Member of Evergreen Property Partners, a real estate investment manager built for family offices and multi-generational investors. Evergreen sponsors the Evergreen Legacy Fund, the firm's third fund and the first built on its Master Tenancy Structure—a patent-pending platform designed to let real estate capital compound continuously across 1031 exchanges rather than reset at each sale. The fund invests alongside an operator bench of six joint-venture partners with $30B+ in combined transaction volume.
Before Evergreen, DJ spent 28 years inside and alongside family offices as an allocator, capital markets executive, and fund founder:
President of Real Estate, fourth-generation family office (MLB team ownership)
Vice President, Hayman Family Office (Giorgio Beverly Hills / Giorgio Perfume / Discus Dental)
Director, Arsenault Family Office (Mountain High Yogurt)
Vice President, Jain Family Office — underwrote and structured equity and debt on projects of $75M–$400M
Founder and Managing Director, The American Dream Fund (single-family residential)
EVP Capital Markets — secured $250M in commitments from international private equity
Real estate investment banker — structured equity and debt on $5M–$250M transactions
$5B+ in real estate assets underwritten across the career
DJ also founded the Family Office Real Estate Institute, the industry's dedicated education and research platform for family office real estate, and publish FORE Magazine. I am the author of Real Estate Investing for Family Offices, a member of the Forbes Real Estate Council, and President of the Harvard Real Estate Alumni Organization.
Recognition: Top 10 U.S. Real Estate Professionals for Family Offices (Family Capital); Top 30 Family Office Real Estate Investors (Trusted Insight); Top 50 World Family Enterprise Advisors (Family Capital); Top 50 Opportunity Zone Experts.
Advisory and governance: Advisor, Keiretsu Family Office; GP Advisory Committee, Gated Rentals; Editorial Board, Real Asset Advisor; past Board Member, Harvard Real Estate Academic Initiative; former Stanford Global Family Office Committee member. Qualified expert witness in family office real estate.
Education: Master's in Management and Finance, Harvard University (Dean's List); graduate studies in real estate, NYU Schack Institute; B.A., Ball State University (Division IA baseball).
