New York - Metro Office

Niko Nicolaou serves as Vice Chairman and co-heads the Northeast Multifamily Advisory Group. Since 2020, he had lead a team of twelve analysts and brokers on multifamily assets. With more than 15 years of experience representing a wide variety of property owners and investors, from institutional entities and private individuals; Niko has been involved in over $5 billion in gross sales with 175+ deals and over 18,500+ units. In 2018 he was responsible for the largest multifamily sale in the Mid-Atlantic region at $190.65 million.

Niko’s successes have been recognized by numerous industry groups and publications, including top individual sales broker in 2020 by the Mid-Atlantic Real Estate Journal (MARE) and NJ Biz 404 under 40 in 2018-2019. Niko is a member of the National Multifamily Housing Council and New Jersey Apartment Association.

Ryan Dowd serves as Managing Director and Co-head of the NE Multifamily Advisory Group for Cushman and Wakefield, which he joined in 2012. As a leader of the group’s investment sales team, his responsibilities cover all aspects of investment advisory, marketing and oversight of underwriting, financial analysis, offering material production as well as due diligence and project coordination, with a particular focus on marketing existing multi-family assets and development and redevelopment opportunities for sale or arranging joint ventures throughout the Northeast.

During his tenure at Cushman & Wakefield his team completed over 700 transactions totaling $33 billion, of which over $5 billion were multifamily sales. His clients included pension fund advisors, REITs, and a range of domestic and foreign private investors including Related, PGIM, GAIA, Greystar, AvalonBay, UBS, among others. Ryan's successes have been recognized by numerous industry groups and publications, including being recognized as a Power Broker by Costar for 2022 & 2023.

Ryan graduated from Boston University’s School of Management with a B.B.A. in Finance. While at Boston University, he also competed as a member of the Division 1 wrestling team.