(MENAFNEditorial)
Melville New York (Sept. 12 2014)—The Advantage Group an industry leader in title insurance and related real estate services has added Patrick Fogarty to its growing organization as Senior Vice President.
“Our excellent sales team has been significantly bolstered by the addition of Patrick Fogarty” said Advantage Group president Joseph M. Willen.” The knowledge and experience he brings enhances our ability to provide unmatched service and expertise to our clients.”
Fogarty primarily will work with institutional investors lenders attorneys and developers on significant regional and multi-state transactions.
“I joined Joe Willen and the Advantage Group due to their stellar reputation for excellent service the fact that they have six in-house counsel available to my clients and the top resources they have to handle their most complex transactions” said Fogarty. “I am most impressed by their professionalism teamwork and superior customer service. Advantage is uniquely positioned to continue to gain market share in this competitive marketplace and I am looking forward to contributing to their growth.”
Fogarty began his career as a credit-trained management associate at Marine Midland Bank then as a real estate lender where he worked on complex commercial credits including loan originations restructures workouts and asset management. In 1994 he joined Donald Zucker Co. a prominent New York City real estate owner/developer/manager where he apprenticed as an asset manager project manager and commercial leasing agent working on hundreds of transactions through 1998. He then joined Rafferty Capital Markets a Garden City New York-based Broker Dealer to manage the operations of a multi-state commercial residential and industrial portfolio that he repositioned and successfully liquidated over time. In 2000 he established Fogarty Advisory Services where he performed lending property management and development services for third parties and his own account.
In 2007 Fogarty joined First American Title Insurance Co. of New York as vice president of sales in the company’s national commercial services division where he developed national client relationships for the company. He also served as liaison with numerous investors looking for opportunities in distressed debt. Since 2009 he has gained in depth knowledge of the CMBS market interacting directly with underwriters servicers and borrowers.
Following his tenure at First American in 2012 he helped to establish an independent title insurance agency First Nationwide Title Agency LLC serving as its sales manager and working with institutional investors lenders attorneys and developers.
Fogarty is the treasurer of the Real Estate Practitioner’s Institute of Long Island an industry professional group affiliated with the College of Business at Stony Brook University. A 1985 graduate of St. John’s University with a BS in Communications Science Fogarty was captain of the golf team a three-time Big East Conference Tournament Champion and was nominated as Big East Conference Athlete of the Decade for golf (1989-1999). He resides in Stewart Manor New York with his wife and three children.
About Advantage
Advantage Title is an industry leading privately owned title insurance agency headquartered in Melville New York with offices in Manhattan and Riverhead New York. Recently ranked by the New York Law Journal as the state’s best title agency Advantage has insured thousands of real estate transactions for attorneys developers lenders and buyers. It has relationships with the seven largest underwriters in the country to ensure security and flexibility for every client transaction. Advantage Title was founded in 1987 by Joseph M. Willen and is the flagship company of the Advantage Group consisting of Advantage Title Advantage Foreclosure Advantage Legal Advantage Settlement and Mortgage Advantage.
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