Tim Nieuwsma
For over 30 years Tim has guided an elite clientele with their real estate consulting and brokerage decisions.
After co-founding a land use consulting company that optimized some of the largest real estate portfolios in the Bay Area, Tim worked thru the strategic process of entitling sites for their highest use, with a spectrum of clients that ranged from Santa Clara County, School Districts and corporations, to families with real estate and business holdings.
As CEO/Executive Director, along with the board of directors, Tim transformed a struggling non-profit affordable housing development company into a thriving and innovative producer of over a thousand apartment units, setting it on its course as a nationally-acclaimed company and the first affordable housing developer in California committed to 100% LEED-certified developments.
Other work has included:
in-house transit agency land portfolio lead, converting dozens of sites from strictly public land use to high density office and residential, unlocking close to a billion dollars in value for one of the largest transit agencies in California
acquisition consultant and broker for affordable rental, ownership, and senior housing, self-storage, mixed-use and transit-village development, pioneering new markets to establish regional offices
member and co-chair of Silicon Valley’s founding housing advocacy group, helping lead over a hundred disparate corporate and private members to win approval of thousands of well built, work-force-affordable, transit-oriented residential developments
long-term strategy, board, master plan, and funding development consulting for affordable housing development companies
“Synergy” epitomizes Tim’s approach to his passion of creating living solutions for those who most need it, in a way that most helps them. Bringing together the right combinations of highly skilled like-minded people to help accomplish this for those who knit our communities together results in good things, improving the quality of life for us all.
Strategic Collaboration
Synergy has a network of site acquisition and development experts
with many years of real estate experience
finding the right locations
creating concepts that maximize their value financially and to the community
working with key staff and electeds to refine those dreams into approvable projects
generating community input and support
accessory dwelling unit feasibility, selection, finance and development; focused on modular solutions
land use, architecture, project management and construction
working with public agencies, schools and churches to optimize, joint venture and acquire, their excess land