Michael Canfield
Senior Vice President, Land Acquisition
Mike Canfield serves as FPG Director of Land Acquisition. In this role, Mike leads company efforts on land acquisition activities with a special focus on Foremost Pacific, the firm’s rental housing business unit. Mike served as Senior Vice President of Land Acquisition at Foremost Companies. Mike has been involved in major real estate transactions in California and nationally for more than 15 years. Canfield is the lead executive responsible for identifying development properties in key markets expected to drive company growth. His duties include negotiating and underwriting new project acquisitions, managing the company’s due diligence efforts, participating in forward planning efforts and overseeing land marketing and disposition activities. Canfield is also responsible for coordinating acquisition strategy with the Firm’s capital partners.
Earlier in his career, Canfield led the Acquisitions division at SunCal Companies, where he oversaw transactions bringing more than 100,000 lots into the portfolio of one of California’s largest residential land developers. During his six-year tenure at SunCal, Canfield helped guide the company through a period of growth that saw its holdings go from 10 communities to nearly 80 communities. Prior to this, Mike spent four years as a land acquisition manager for Toll Brothers, a major publicly traded US homebuilder. Canfield has also worked on the public-sector side of development in city planning and administration.
Canfield holds a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of Law and is a member of the California State Bar of California. Mike holds a bachelor’s degree in public administration with a minor in business economics from California State University, Long Beach. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army Airborne Infantry. Canfield lives in Yorba Linda with his wife, Tania, and is the proud father of one son and two daughters.