Ms. Liz Ptacek
StepStone
Liz Ptacek has worked in real estate market research for over 25 years, building a broad base of knowledge across markets, property types, and land uses. Liz joined StepStone Group in March 2024, as Principal, Global Real Estate Market Research and Analytics. In this role, she supports both the advisory and active investment sides of the business, producing macro, top-down research and guiding asset-level underwriting. Prior to StepStone, Ms. Ptacek was a Senior Director of Market Analytics for CoStar, covering multiple major markets in the Midwest and Northeast.
Liz has spent much of her career in banking, most recently as the Senior Credit Portfolio Executive for Real Estate and Head of Research for KeyBank. Liz built Key’s first real estate market research group, developed proprietary market views for the residential and commercial markets, and produced the KeyBank Macroeconomic View. As the Senior Credit Portfolio Executive, Liz worked with her partners in credit and the line of business to manage and mitigate concentration risk in the portfolio. Before joining KeyBank, Liz spent 8 years with PNC Bank in the real estate market research group, an internal consulting group that focuses on the market risks associated with PNC’s real estate finance transactions. Ms. Ptacek began her career in real estate at Economics Research Associates, one of the premier consulting practices in the U.S. at that time.
Liz received her bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and her master’s degree from George Washington University.
