Real Estate Colloquium featuring Darin Davidson and interviewed by Ryan Sfreddo

About this event

About Real Estate Colloquium: Real Estate Colloquium provides an overview of the real estate field through weekly sessions with industry professionals. Each session covers diverse topics including finance, investment, law, planning, public policy, REITs, capital markets, leasing, brokerage, and development. Representatives from across the industry share insights into career paths and provide a comprehensive view of this multifaceted field.

The Corcoran Center for Real Estate and Urban Action welcomes Guest Speaker, Darin Davidson. He will give a short 30 minute presentation. Following, there will then be a moderated discussion conducted with Ryan Sfreddo.

Guest Speaker: Darin Davidson is the managing partner of Inland Group, a developer, builder, and owner/operator of multifamily residential communities located throughout the Western and Rocky Mountain states. Inland specializes in the production and operation of Active Adult communities and apartment homes financed through the federal Low-Income

Housing Tax Credit program. Darin is also actively involved in the development of affordable housing on behalf of various nonprofits, including Catholic Charities, Volunteers of America, and housing authority organizations. He currently serves on the board of Idaho Forest Group, one of the largest lumber producers in the United States. Darin received both his undergraduate and law degrees from the University of Washington.Darin and his wife, Mia, are the proud parents of four incredible (Jesuit educated) children: Michael ’21, Maggie (Gonzaga University B.A. ’22 and M.Ed. ’25), Joey ’25, and Molly ’29, who all enjoy meaningful family time together at Priest Lake, Idaho, and Big Sky, Montana. Darin will be joining the Boston College Board of Trustees in September 2026.

Guest Moderator: Ryan Sfreddo is the Chief Executive Officer of Red Stone Equity Partners (“Red Stone”) and is responsible for leading the firm’s affordable housing tax credit syndication business, focusing on acquisitions, investor relations, and portfolio management. Prior to being named Chief Executive Officer in July 2023, Mr. Sfreddo served as President of the firm for three years and prior to that he served as Managing Director of Investor Relations where he oversaw the marketing and distribution of the firm’s tax credit investment products. Prior to joining Red Stone in 2011, Mr. Sfreddo was a Managing Director of Centerline Capital Group (f/k/a Related Capital Company) where he oversaw its tax credit fund management business consisting of structuring, marketing and closing its institutional tax credit investment funds. Mr. Sfreddo has played a leading role in raising and investing more than $15 billion of institutional equity for tax credit investment funds. Prior to 2002, Mr. Sfreddo was responsible for the acquisition of properties with Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and/or Historic Tax Credits, having directly participated in the structuring, negotiating, and closing of more than 200 real estate transactions, resulting in more than $1 billion of net equity investment and the creation and/or preservation of more than 25,000 residential apartment units. Mr. Sfreddo is an active panelist at tax credit conferences and currently serves as Board Chair of The Affordable Housing Tax Credit Coalition. Mr. Sfreddo is a graduate of Boston College with a Bachelor of Science degree, summa cum laude, with concentrations in both Finance and Pre-Medical studies.

Open to all students, faculty, and staff. No registration required.