Connecticut Realty Trust, LLC – Principals

Robert M. Kligerman, the key principal of The Kligerman Group, has been actively engaged in the real estate business for over 35 years. He began his career in Boston as an apartment leasing agent in 1974. From 1977 to 1993, Robert was a well-known commercial leasing and sales broker in midtown and downtown Manhattan specializing in what were then peripheral and tertiary office markets.

Conducting noteworthy and bell weather transactions, he represented numerous Fortune 500 companies and prominent New York Landlords as both leasing and sales agent. Included are: Nynex, Equitable, Met Life, Allstate, Sakura Bank, General Electric Credit Corp, and many others. In 1984, he won The Creative Deal of the Year Award (known as the Robert T. Lawrence Award) from The Real Estate Board of New York for brokering the sale of the first large commercial condominium in New York City sold to The College Entrance Examination Board. Over the course of his brokerage career he has held executive-level positions at Cross & Brown Company, The Galbreath Company and Cushman & Wakefield.

He bought his first investment property in New York City in 1981.

In 1993, he co-founded Prime Realty, a multi-family real estate acquisition and management company specializing in New York City. By 2000, Prime owned and operated approximately 6,700 rental apartment units in approximately 180 buildings. Prime employed 300 people and its institutional partners were Trust Company of the West, Oaktree Financial and Prudential Real Estate Investors.

In 2000, Robert sold his interest in Prime Realty and founded The Kligerman Group. Since then, he has purchased, sold and held over 100 properties (approximately $200,000,000 of real estate). At present, he owns and asset manages approximately 20 real estate assets totaling about $100,000,000. His core holdings have always been and are, presently, New York City multi-family assets in Northern Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx, however, he has also diversified into retail assets in Westchester County, New York and Fairfield County, CT and has acquired a Pharmaceutical warehouse campus close to JFK Airport on Long Island, New York.

Bard Kligerman has had a long involvement in the real estate business as a result of working with and investing with his father Robert. He has had internships at Goldschmidt and Associates, Scarsdale, NY, a well-known local commercial real estate brokerage company; LibertyPointe Bank, New York, NY, where he worked in the loan underwriting department on credit analysis; and most recently at Marcus and Millichap REIS, New York, NY where he focused on many real estate disciplines regarding the analysis of properties and valuations.

Throughout his college years (Miami University of Ohio, Oxford, OH; Majoring in Finance, in addition to the above, Bard assisted his father regarding a ground-up retail development in Scarsdale, NY and numerous multi-family properties. In fact, Bard became an actual investor himself in 2002 in four multi-family properties and one retail strip center which were syndicated by Robert. Bard followed the investments through upgrade, mortgage finance, mortgage refinance and eventual sale. As a result, he knows the challenges and benefits of commercial real estate investment and has deep, technical capabilities combined with an intrinsic understanding of real estate.

William “Billy” Watters came to the USA from Glasgow, Scotland in 1994. In Scotland, he was an Engineer involved in Building Code and Fire Protection for commercial and residential properties. He was instrumental in engineering and implementing fire protection plans for clients such as IBM, Digital and Compaq. He also worked with most established Scotch Distilleries in Scotland regarding similar engineering disciplines.

Upon immigrating to the USA, Billy started his own construction company specializing in residential rehab and commercial construction. Simultaneously, while running his construction enterprise, Billy began selling high end automobiles (Rolls Royce, Bentley and Ferraris) in 2004. He was the #1 Bentley salesmen for the east coast region in 2007 (180+ Bentleys sold).

At the advice of some of Billy’s most financially sophisticated clients and customers, he decided to engage full time efforts into a Residential Real Estate Acquisition and Rehab Program centered in Waterbury, CT. He is the on-the-ground operating partner for our Waterbury, CT ventures and brings an intense commitment to detail and success. At present, Billy’s “on the ground” team consists of the following construction and maintenance professionals: two carpenters, two sheet rockers, two plasterers and tapers, a plumber, three electricians, five laborers and five painters. These trades will be expanded as more properties are acquired.