About Us

Carol graduated from SUNY Brockport and received her Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. Her professional positions included multi-family development, property management and commercial loan underwriting. 

She was a founding partner of Edgemere Development, Inc., an affordable housing development company, and later joined Conifer Realty, LLC as manager of their affordable housing development department. 

She also held Asset Management and Property Management positions at Conifer Realty and Baldwin Real Estate Corporation whose portfolios include affordable and market rate multi-family, office and retail properties. Mrs. Oster was also at First Niagara Bank as a commercial real estate loan underwriter. 

Most recently Carol was Vice President of Development at Rochester’s Cornerstone Group. There, she oversaw the conceptual development and construction of housing developments for families and seniors in locations throughout New York State. She managed the entire development process including site selection, contract negotiation, local public approvals, project civil and architectural design oversight, financing applications, construction, equity and permanent loan closings and transition to property management. 

She is a past board member of Genesis Housing Development Corporation, a 501(c)(3) whose mission is to develop and own affordable housing projects.

Carol communicates with all members of the project team, facilitating and following through on all project details. Her passion is identifying potential development opportunities and establishing partnerships to get the task at hand completed in a timely manner. Potential roadblocks are identified before they happen and a proactive team-focused approach to problem solving is employed to ensure developments come to market expeditiously.