David Welk
Managing Director of Acquisitions, Origin Investments
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone (704) 750-9125
Property Types
Multi-Family
Markets
Atlanta, Charlotte, Chicago, Raleigh/Durham, Charleston/N Charleston
Bio
Dave is directly responsible for investment activities across the firm’s target markets and collaborating with the Investment Committee to shape the firm’s investment strategy.
Over the past 13 years, Dave has been involved with the sourcing, closing and execution of more than $1.1 billion of commercial real estate acquisitions, dispositions and development. During his six-year tenure with Origin, Dave has completed nearly $300 million of direct and joint-venture investments including acquisitions, ground-up development, physical and operational repositioning of multifamily and office assets throughout Chicago and the Southeast U.S.
Prior to joining Origin Investments, Dave spent six years at Deutsche Bank’s global commercial real estate investment and advisory division known as RREEF. During his tenure, he was involved with the acquisition of more than $500 million of multifamily, office, industrial and retail assets throughout the U.S. on behalf of the firm’s pension fund clients. Additionally, Dave was a member of the Portfolio Management group that oversaw the investment management and strategic direction for two separate account pension fund clients that had a combined asset value of more than $2 billion and comprised over 10 million square foot of multifamily, office, retail and industrial assets throughout the U.S.
Dave is married, has two sons and lives in the Cotswold neighborhood of Charlotte. He enjoys trying to keep up with the ever-changing restaurant scene, travel, a round of golf, an occasional bird hunt, Iowa Hawkeyes athletics and Blackhawks hockey.
