Shimon Shkury is the President and Founder of Ariel Property Advisors. As President he oversees all investment sales, capital services, and research initiatives that the company undertakes.
Mr. Shkury founded Ariel Property Advisors in 2011 after serving as Managing Partner at Massey Knakal Realty Services — now Cushman & Wakefield — where he led the firm's expansion into Northern Manhattan and the Bronx.
What began as a small team with a conviction that New York City's investment sales market required a more rigorous, research-driven advisory model has grown into a 65-person, seven-partner platform that consistently ranks among the city's top five multifamily brokerage firms by dollar volume.
Ariel integrates investment sales, capital services, and in-house research to provide a coordinated advisory platform across market intelligence, capital strategy, and execution, with a particular depth in rent-regulated and policy-driven assets.
Since its inception, Ariel's research division has evaluated more than 15,000 New York properties valued at over $115 billion, with the firm arranging the sale and financing more than $10 billion in transactions across 1,800+ assets. In a standout assignment for the firm, Ariel advised an institutional bidder in the 2023 Signature Portfolio sale, one of the most significant distressed transactions in recent New York City history.
In 2024, Ariel extended its platform nationally through a strategic partnership with GREA (Global Real Estate Advisors), on whose national board Mr. Shkury serves. Ariel leads GREA's national Affordable Housing and Capital Services initiatives, a presence that has strengthened the firm's reach and relevance in the New York City market and nationwide.
A frequent source of market intelligence for leading industry publications, Mr. Shkury also is a regular contributor to Forbes on commercial real estate trends and is the host of Ariel's Coffee & Cap Rates podcast.
Mr. Shkury has been named to the Commercial Observer's Power 100 for four consecutive years (2023–2026), recognized as one of GlobeSt’s CRE Best Bosses (2024) and Crain's New York's Notable Leaders in Real Estate (2022). In addition, Ariel has been named one of CRE’s Best Places to Work and one of the nation’s Best Brokerage Offices.
Mr. Shkury is deeply committed to civic and philanthropic life. He will be honored later this year with the Tree of Life Award by the Jewish National Fund (JNF), one of the Jewish community's most distinguished recognitions. He was previously honored by Israel Bonds with the Real Estate New Leadership Cabinet Award for the State of Israel. He and his wife, Ruby Gelman, were recipients of the Benefactor Award from Belev Echad, an organization dedicated to supporting wounded Israeli soldiers. He serves on the advisory boards of UJA-Federation of New York, AIPAC, FIDF, Legal Outreach, and Cookies for Kids' Cancer, and is involved with numerous other civic and philanthropic organizations.
Mr. Shkury came to the United States from Israel in 1999 to earn an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business and a master's in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania's Lauder Institute. He previously served as a lieutenant in the Israel Defense Forces.
Mr. Shkury lives in Manhattan with his wife, son and daughter. He can be reached at 212.544.9500 ext. 11 or via email at sshkury@arielpa.com.
