NEWS

The UIP Companies (UIP) of Washington, DC has hired Tracey Harris-Sanford as Controller. In her new role, Ms. Harris-Sanford heads UIP’s accounting department, with overall responsibility for property accounting, financial reporting, and financial statement audits for UIP’s portfolio of multifamily properties.

Ms. Harris-Sanford joins UIP from Gates Hudson & Associates Inc., headquartered in Fairfax, VA, which provides residential and commercial services including property management, leasing, and investment sales. Earlier in her career, Ms. Harris-Sanford was employed by Bernstein Management Corporation and The Mills Company.

With 18 years of real estate accounting experience, UIP’s new controller brings expertise with Yardi, systems implementations with Yardi, Viewpoint and Nexus Systems, and streamlining processes that can maximize efficiency in accounting departments. She holds a master’s degree in accounting and finance and a BS degree in accounting from the University of Maryland Global Campus. Tracey lives in Upper Marlboro, MD with her husband and child.

The UIP family of companies owns and manages more than 3,000 apartments in Washington, DC and its Maryland suburbs. This portfolio comprises over $1 billion in assets under management. Over the last ten years, UIP has renovated, restored, and built more than 25 downtown apartment buildings and condominiums. UIP’s specialties include “heavy lift” renovations of Depression-era apartment buildings, adaptive reuse of office and other buildings,  and working with tenants in Washington, DC to help them exercise their TOPA (Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act) rights. UIP also is active in entitling land and infill development. For more information, visit www.uipllc.com,  www.uippm.com and www.uipgc.com.