Joe LeVine
Managing Partner

Joe leads Mercer Street’s acquisitions and asset management groups and is a member of the firm’s investment committee.

Prior to founding Mercer Street in 2016, Joe was a Managing Director and member of the investment committee at a NYC-based public non-traded REIT. He began his career as an operations and internal audit analyst at Loews Hotels before moving on to serve as Vice President of Asset Management at The Chartres Lodging Group and led business development of Chartres’ affiliate third-party management company, Kokua Hospitality. During his tenure at Chartres & Kokua, the firm grew from four principals and two employees to more than fifty corporate staff members while owning and/or managing over 15,000 guest rooms. Joe oversaw a portfolio of hotels valued at over $1.5 billion. After Chartres, Joe advised hotel developers and lenders on projects in the Northeast, Caribbean, Texas, and Costa Rica. In 2011, Joe worked with GB Lodging & GFI Capital on the acquisition and development of The Beekman, a $350 million mixed-use condo and luxury hotel development in downtown Manhattan.

Joe has a BS from Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration and he has completed the Distressed Real Estate curriculum at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. Joe has guest lectured several graduate-level real estate classes at both Cornell’s Baker Program and NYU Tisch Center and served on the Common House Board of Directors from 2020-2023.