Alex Samoylovich is a visionary real estate leader scaling multifamily innovation through integrated development, technology, and experiential operations.
Alex Samoylovich is a Chicago-based real estate developer and entrepreneur with extensive experience founding, scaling, and operating integrated real estate and technology platforms across the United States. He is best known as the founder of CEDARst Companies, a national multifamily real estate developer and operator focused on design-forward residential communities in urban and infill markets.
Over the course of his career, Alex has been involved in the development, acquisition, and management of thousands of multifamily residences, with projects spanning major metropolitan markets including Chicago, San Diego, Portland, Minneapolis, Cleveland, and South Florida. His work emphasizes disciplined underwriting, long-term capital alignment, and operational execution that balances financial performance with neighborhood integration and resident experience.
Alex began his career in real estate with a focus on identifying underutilized urban assets and repositioning them through thoughtful redevelopment and operational improvement. Early in his career, he recognized the opportunity to integrate development, construction oversight, and long-term operations under a single platform to improve execution consistency and asset performance.
This approach led to the founding of CEDARst Companies, where Alex has served in senior leadership roles guiding strategy, capital partnerships, and portfolio growth. Under his leadership, CEDARst expanded into a vertically integrated platform encompassing development, construction management, and property operations, enabling greater control across the project lifecycle.
Through multiple market cycles, Alex has remained focused on resilient locations, design efficiency, and operational discipline. His experience navigating complex capital environments has shaped a pragmatic leadership style grounded in risk management, adaptability, and long-term value creation.
Alex Samoylovich’s Leadership and Operating Philosophy:
Alex’s leadership philosophy is rooted in transparency, accountability, and executional rigor. He believes that sustainable real estate development requires aligning stakeholder interests, maintaining clear communication, and making decisions grounded in data and local market insight.
He approaches leadership with a long-term perspective, emphasizing durable organizational structures, empowered teams, and repeatable processes. Alex prioritizes collaboration with investors, lenders, municipalities, and community partners to ensure projects contribute positively to their surrounding environments while meeting financial and operational objectives.
Across his roles, Alex has consistently focused on building platforms that can evolve alongside changing market conditions, regulatory frameworks, and resident expectations.
CEDARst Companies
A national multifamily real estate developer and operator delivering design-forward residential communities across diverse U.S. markets. CEDARst focuses on disciplined growth, operational excellence, and long-term neighborhood investment.
Collective Residential
A national residential property management platform built to consolidate best-in-class regional operators under a technology-enabled, service-oriented model.
Livly, Inc.
A multifamily operating system designed to centralize resident experience, property operations, and ancillary revenue through integrated software and automation.
Alex has led projects across the full development lifecycle, including site acquisition, entitlement, design, construction oversight, leasing, stabilization, and long-term asset management. His experience spans ground-up development and adaptive reuse in urban and transit-oriented locations.
He has worked closely with institutional investors, private equity partners, and lenders to structure joint ventures, construction financing, and recapitalizations. His approach emphasizes disciplined underwriting and alignment between capital strategy and operational execution.
Through a placemaking-driven approach, Alex Samoylovich advances urban revitalization by transforming underutilized parcels into active, livable environments. Projects prioritize contextual design, public-realm engagement, and flexible spaces that respond to how people live, work, and connect in evolving urban neighborhoods.
In addition to real estate development, Alex has founded and supported technology platforms aimed at modernizing property management, resident engagement, and operational efficiency within the multifamily sector.
Alex and Danielle Samoylovich Support Hippocratic Cancer Research Foundation Gala
Alex and Danielle Samoylovich supported the 2025 Wings to Cure Gala advancing cancer research at Northwestern Universitys Lurie Cancer Center.
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Navigating Volatility: How Data Protects Real Estate Assets
Alex Samoylovich shares a C-level perspective on managing real estate assets during market cycles using data-driven discipline and proprietary PropTech ecosystems.
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Executive Leadership Guide to Agentic AI in Multifamily
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Deep Dive: Proper - Building a Tech-Enabled Operating Model for Residential Property Management
Summary of Thesis Driven's Deep Dive: Proper - how central services, automation, and acquisitions are shaping a scalable residential property management model.
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Alex Samoylovich on CRE Daily's No Cap Podcast: Adaptive Reuse, Historic Redevelopment, and Executing Complex Deals
Alex Samoylovich discusses adaptive reuse, historic redevelopment, capital stacks, and execution risk on CRE Daily's No Cap Podcast. Episode details and Q&As.
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Ari Samoylovich Recognized as an American Heart Association Kids Heart Challenge Winner
Samoylovich family spotlights youth-led philanthropy supporting the American Heart Association’s mission to fight heart disease and stroke.
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