Founded by Donald M. Koll, Peter Bren and Charles J. Schreiber, Jr. in 1992, KBSRA
Inc, a private real estate equity company, was formed to buy commercial real estate and
structured debt investments on behalf of institutional and pension fund clients. KBSRA
Inc also originates and acquires debt positions collateralized by stabilized and value-
added real properties.
KBSRA Inc provides acquisition, disposition, asset management and consulting services
to corporations and institutional investors in connection with real estate assets and real
estate-related investments including, on a limited basis, real estate securities. KBSRA Inc
provides these services to pension and profit-sharing plans through its management of
real estate limited partnerships established to facilitate the investment by such clients
directly or indirectly in real estate and related investments. In certain cases, such limited
partnerships may invest through a real estate investment trust.
Acquisition services include identifying and evaluating for client investment various real
estate assets and real estate-related investments including, on a limited basis, real estate
securities including but not limited to: direct investments in real estate, real estate limited
partnership interests, real estate investment trusts, group trusts and other collective real
estate investment vehicles, loans secured by interests in real estate, real property equities,
and mortgage-backed securities. In this capacity, KBSRA Inc serves as investment
adviser to public and corporate pension funds and/or certain investment vehicles
established on their behalf.
KBSRA Inc is indirectly owned by Charles Jay Schreiber, Jr., and the Estate of Peter
Milton Bren. Charles Jay Schreiber, Jr. has the authority to control KBSRA Inc and,
Chairman and President.
Mr. Schreiber graduated from the University of Southern California with a bachelor’s
degree in finance with an emphasis in Real Estate. During his four years at USC, he did
graduate work in the then newly formed Real Estate Department in the USC Graduate
School
of Business.
Mr. Schreiber has been involved in real estate development, management, acquisition,
disposition, and financing for more than 40 years and with the acquisition, origination,
management, disposition, and financing of real estate-related debt investments for more
than 30 years. Prior to forming the first KBS-affiliated investment advisor in 1992, he
served as the Executive Vice President of Koll Investment Management Services and
Executive Vice President of Acquisitions/Dispositions for The Koll Company. During the
mid-1970s through the 1980s, he was Founder and President of Pacific Development
Company and was previously Senior Vice President/Southern California Regional
Manager of Ashwill-Burke Commercial Brokerage. Mr. Schreiber is the Chief Executive
Officer of KBS Capital Advisors LLC and is a principal of Koll Bren Schreiber Realty
Advisors, Inc.
He is currently an Executive Board Member for the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate
at the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business/School of Policy,
Planning and Development and serves as a member of the Executive Committee for the
Public Non-Listed REIT Council for the National Association of Real Estate Investment
Trusts. He is also a member of the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries.
Mr. Schreiber has served as a member of the board of directors and executive committee
of The Irvine Company since August 2016, and since December 2016, Mr. Schreiber has
served on the Board of Trustees of The Irvine Company.
KBSRA Inc does not participate in any Wrap Programs
As of 12/31/2023, KBSRA Inc managed client assets of approximately $164,076 on a non-
discretionary basis. A substantial majority of the assets managed by KBSRA Inc are invested in
real estate property assets with the remainder of these assets being invested in other real estate-
related investments, including, but not limited to, real estate securities.
Currently, KBSRA Inc does not expect to pursue new real estate and real estate-related
investment acquisitions on behalf of its clients.