Nathan Vaughan
Managing Partner, Ridgewood Capital Advisors
Charlotte, NC 28277
Senior Investment Advisor with Waterstone Multifamily Group
Phone (704) 780-0472
Senior Investment Advisor with Waterstone Multifamily Group
Specialties
Investment Sales Broker
Property Types
Multi-Family, Health Care
Markets
Charlotte, Greenville/Spartanburg, Greensboro/Winston-Salem
Languages
English
Bio
Born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, Nathan relocated to Charlotte, NC, in 2008 to be closer to family. After stints in the construction and insurance industries, he found his way to real estate in 2011.
Nathan's father accumulated a 36-unit apartment portfolio in Denton. As an only child, his father's cancer diagnosis encouraged him to learn the family business. In just five weeks, Nathan passed all the NCREC requirement courses and started working for a Charlotte-based residential firm as a closing coordinator. This first job, with its $350/week salary, taught Nathan the fine art of navigating, anticipating, and solving problems that can get in the way of closing deals. His path led him to another firm that focused on residential and commercial transactions. The broker in charge had aligned himself with a Canadian syndication group looking to buy multifamily complexes in North Carolina. Though Nathan did not know what P&L, NOI, or DSCR stood for, he dove in and started helping this group buy apartments in the greater Charlotte area. A lucky call on a Loopnet listing led him to his third firm, a Charlotte-based group that focused exclusively on multifamily sales in the Carolinas. Despite being green, his boss expanded on Nathan’s bootstrap education and taught him the intricacies of closing large multifamily transactions. Nathan rose to the #2 producer in the company behind the owner, achieving a closing percentage above 95%. He quickly realized running his own shop would cost less than the brokerage split he was paying; once Nathan accumulated a large enough nest egg, he left and formed Ridgewood Capital Advisors in April 2018 with a partner.
Their first closing as a firm occurred in January 2019. As of June 2023, we are collectively under contract on our 66th transaction. Ridgewood Capital Advisors has closed 7,247 multifamily units totaling $444,351,097 in gross sales.
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