Meet Our Team
Jeremy Knap - Managing Partner
Jeremy Knap is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of J&S Realty, which currently owns and operates 453 multifamily units, at a valuation of ~$65MM, across South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. His primary functions include accounting, operations, legal, financial statement preparation and analysis, and asset management.
Jeremy previously worked at GTJ REIT as a Senior Accountant. His primary responsibilities included managing the accounting for a portfolio of commercial properties, preparing property level financial statements, budgeting and variance analysis, reconciling tenant accounts, underwriting potential acquisitions, analyzing leasing activity, and compliance. Jeremy began investing in South Carolina real estate in 2017. He holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Scranton.
Scott Regan - Managing Partner
Scott Regan is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of J&S Realty, which currently owns & operates 453 multifamily units, at a valuation of ~$65MM, across South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. His primary functions include evaluating property-level financial performance, modeling cash flows, interpreting valuation and physical risk, identifying new investment opportunities and asset management. J&S target investments are Class C and B, multifamily assets where value can be added through operational or physical enhancements.
In previous roles at Greystone and Sabal Capital Partners, he closed over $2 billion worth of multifamily transactions across 300+ deals, in credit analysis and deal sizing roles. Scott began personally investing in real estate in 2017 in South Carolina with single-family homes. He holds a BS in Finance from the University of South Carolina.
Matthew Lovallo - Chief Operating Officer
Matthew Lovallo is the COO of J&S Realty where he oversees the management of the portfolio through scope approval and cost of capital improvements, contract negotiation, and the supervision of managing agents. Having 38 years of relevant experience prior to taking on the COO role at J&S, Matt is recognized for his ability in negotiating creative deal structures while balancing risk management, financial impacts, and operational concerns. Acquisition due diligence is a specialty along with the related activities of zoning analysis, market positioning, and coordination of the various disciplines in the development process.
In addition to the foregoing, his experience in banking as VP provided key insights to the legal landscape, which honed his ability to craft unique defensive documentation strategies at deal inception with respect to offering plans, leases and purchase and sale agreements.