Sheila Byrne
Executive Vice President,
Property Management
As Executive Vice President of Property Management, Sheila Byrne provides executive leadership over the operational strategy, financial performance, and long-term value creation of Habitat’s diversified real estate portfolio. She oversees more than 13,000 residential units and 268,000+ square feet of commercial space across the Great Lakes region, with continued expansion into New York through transformative redevelopment initiatives, including the Marine Drive project.
Sheila leads Habitat’s full range of business lines, including market-rate, affordable, condominium, and mixed-use assets, while also providing executive oversight of facilities management to ensure asset integrity, operational continuity, and long-term building performance across the portfolio. In this role, she provides strategic direction for portfolio-wide marketing platforms and initiatives, ensuring alignment between operations, brand positioning, leasing performance, and resident experience across all asset types.
A trusted partner to ownership and investors, Sheila plays an active role in investor relations—delivering operational insights that support return objectives, capital strategies, NOI growth, and long-term portfolio optimization. She also contributes market-level expertise to acquisitions and redevelopment efforts, supporting disciplined underwriting, operational scalability, and performance optimization.
Throughout her tenure, Sheila has led initiatives focused on operational efficiency, technology adoption, and process innovation—streamlining workflows, enhancing resident engagement, and advancing Habitat’s sustainability and green initiatives. Her leadership approach emphasizes operational resilience, asset longevity, and continuous improvement across the portfolio.
Sheila brings more than 40 years of institutional leadership at Habitat, with deep expertise in managing complex, large-scale, and landmark multifamily and mixed-use developments. She currently serves on the Board of Managers at Habitat and is a board member of ABOMA.