Joshua Olsen has led Monument Realty’s acquisitions team for more than a fifteen years, and his career with Monument spans over two decade, during which time he has made significant contributions to company’s overall success and growth. As head of the acquisitions team, Josh is responsible for identifying real estate opportunities, making recommendations to Monument Realty’s investment partners, arranging financing and conducting due diligence, preparing property business plans, and closing transactions. He has also served as a project manager overseeing all aspects of an award-winning $30 million office-to-residential condominium conversion, as well as the conversion of a 150,000-square-foot rental apartment building to condominiums.

Josh is the authored of two books, Better Place, Better Lives: A Biography of James Rouse (Urban Land Institute [ULI]) and Foggy Bottom and the West End (Arcadia Publishing), and has published several articles in Urban Land, Geoforum, and other publications. He serves on the executive committee of the Washington District Council of ULI and has served nationally as a juror for ULI’s Kenneth M. Good Graduate Student Scholarship. He was named one of the Washington Business Journal’s “Top 40 Under 40” business leaders in 2011.

Josh has a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, graduating summa cum laude from Yale University. As a Fulbright Scholar, he earned a Master of Science in Geographical Sciences from the University of Bristol in England.