Richard Campo

Richard Campo co-founded Camden Property Trust in 1993 and has served as its Chairman and CEO for over three decades, making him one of the longest-tenured REIT CEOs in America. Under his leadership, Camden grew from a small Houston-based apartment company into one of the nation's largest multifamily REITs, owning and operating over 58,000 apartment homes across 15 major U.S. markets. Campo's strategic genius lies in his early and consistent focus on Sun Belt markets — Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Phoenix, Tampa, Nashville, and other high-growth metros — long before the post-COVID migration wave made this strategy fashionable. He built Camden's reputation on operational excellence, maintaining industry-leading occupancy rates and same-store NOI growth through disciplined capital allocation and a corporate culture that consistently earns Camden "Best Places to Work" rankings. Campo is known for his contrarian investment timing: buying aggressively during downturns and selling at cycle peaks. His decisions on development pipeline size, geographic concentration, rent growth strategy versus occupancy optimization, and capital recycling timing are the key variables for Camden's stock performance. His candid earnings call commentary on housing market conditions makes him one of the most-followed voices in apartment REIT investing.