Adam Schwartz, Founder | Coastwise Analytics

Professional background

A career on the owner’s side of the table

Adam Schwartz has spent his career with leading national and local real estate investors, operators, and developers including CBRE, Westfield (Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield), CWCapital Asset Management, BentallGreenOak (f/k/a Bentall Kennedy), and Gates Hudson & Associates.

Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Adam started his business career working for a private wealth management team at Smith Barney in Bethesda, MD, building new client relationships while in undergraduate school.

He started his real estate career managing over 500 units of condominium/cooperative HOAs throughout northwest Washington, DC, and transitioned to commercial real estate at CBRE, managing Class A and B office properties in 2007. In 2010, he joined Westfield to work on their Southeast U.S. 11-shopping-center portfolio valued at $3.0 billion and consisting of 10.0 million sf. He was responsible for the development and economic feasibility underwriting and monthly financial reporting on the redevelopment of over 200,000 sf of inline and anchor space with costs in excess of $400 million.

Adam went on to spend six years as an Asset Manager on the Retail teams at CWCapital and Bentall Kennedy in Bethesda, MD, working on over $1.5 billion between REO and equity investments with a primary focus on regional anchored malls and grocery-anchored shopping centers located within primary, secondary, and tertiary U.S. markets with varying risk profiles.

In 2018, he joined Gates Hudson, serving as Asset Manager, Director of FP&A, and Vice President of Asset Management, where he evaluated investment opportunities for existing and new clients and underwrote the acquisition, disposition, and refinancing of over $5.0 billion of value-add, core, and new-development lease-up properties. During this time, he overhauled the underwriting, reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and analytic capabilities and systems, contributing to rapid growth to over 26,000 units and growing, on a portfolio spanning DC Metro, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, Richmond, Newport News, Norfolk, and West Virginia.

Where “Coastwise” began

The name “Coastwise” originates from the Coastwise Petroleum Company, founded in 1925 and owned by Adam’s great-grandfather in Baltimore, MD.

After learning the oil business at a young age from the founders of Amoco (BP Amoco), Adam’s great-grandfather, with the help of his brother, acquired their refinery situated on the Mississippi River just 24 miles west of New Orleans in Good Hope, Louisiana.

During World War II, the war industry effort contributed to Coastwise Petroleum’s growth as one of the largest manufacturers and distributors of Benzol. For nearly 50 years, Coastwise, along with Ernest Simpson of Simpson Spence (now SSY) as their shipping partner, imported, refined, and exported petrochemicals.

During the 1930s and ’40s, Adam’s great-grandfather was able to scale operations and distribution throughout Europe. He was able to do so under the simple philosophy of treating people with honesty, integrity, and fairness, both personally and in business. It’s with these guiding values that Adam operates Coastwise Analytics.

Specializing in multifamily real estate.

Adam Schwartz — Founder & Managing Principal

Our Mission

We empower owners, operators, developers, family offices, and brokers with precise, rapid, and strategic underwriting and advisory services. By leveraging our deep industry experience, we allow our clients to focus on what they do best—sourcing deals, raising capital, and managing assets.