With nearly 20 years of experience in the real estate industry, Lynne Sweet has played a vital role as consultant to both private and public sector clients by providing a range of services including planning, market research, feasibility analysis, financial structuring, land use and permitting, team building and project management. The majority of Ms. Sweet’s current work services the housing, senior living and affordable housing industries.

Before founding LDS Consulting Group, Ms. Sweet held senior positions with BRFG Consulting Group, Inc. of Boston, as well as Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. of Boston. She established the Senior Housing Strategies Group at BRFG Consulting, and managed the group for three years while providing project management services including market research and financial structuring.

At the law firm of Mintz Levin, Ms. Sweet worked on all phases of real estate acquisitions, financings and workouts for office, medical, multi-family housing and retail properties, representing real estate developers, owners and lenders.
She worked with conventional commercial lenders and public and quasi/public lending agencies on a variety of programs including those involving the use of historic and low income tax credits, taxable and tax-free bonds and operating subsidies.

In Spring 2003 she was asked by the Governor’s office to be an active observer on the Commonwealth’s Chapter 40B Task Force, and in Summer 2003 was part of a Technical Assistance Panel for the Urban Land Institute, Boston for the Milton Village/Central Avenue Revitalization Committee.

Ms. Sweet sat on the steering committee of New England Women in Real Estate ("NEWIRE") from 2000-2003, and is a past director of the Massachusetts Assisted Living Facilities Association ("MASS-ALFA") and the Rhode Island Assisted Living Facilities Association ("RIALA"). She currently sits on the Board of Advisors to MASS-ALFA and the Affordability Task Force. She is Chair of the Renovations committee for Second Step and an MBA Mentor at Babson College’s F.W. Olin School.

Ms. Sweet is an active member of the Citizens Housing and Planning Association ("CHAPA), the Urban Land Institute, and the American Planning Association, among other affiliations.

Ms. Sweet is a frequent lecturer and author on housing and healthcare matters, and is often consulted as a spokesperson on the affordable housing and assisted living industries.

She authored several chapters of "Assisted Living in Nursing Homes", published in 1999 by the Assisted Living Federation of America, and co-authored a study in 1999 by Mass-ALFA, "Expanding Access to Assisted Living in Massachusetts: Five Development Models of Affordability".

Lynne received the Community Involvement Award from CREW Network, for her role in creating the NEWIRE Small Business and Entrepreneurial Exchange.

She holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Babson College’s F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business in Wellesley, MA.