Michael Shvo (born December 29, 1972) is a real estate developer based in New York City with offices in Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago.

[4] Shvo initially managed a fleet of taxis prior to landing a job as a real-estate broker with Douglas Elliman, the largest brokerage in New York.

[7] From 2003 through 2008, he performed $15 billion in real estate transactions worldwide, including Nurai, a private island off the coast of Abu Dhabi.

He got back into the real estate market in 2013, initially purchasing a Getty Oil gas station at the corner of 10th Avenue and 24th Street in West Chelsea, Manhattan.

[11] The site has been developed into a high-end luxury condominium named The Getty Building,[14] with Peter Marino designated as the architect for both the interior and exterior of the project.

[15] In 2018, Shvo purchased the office portion of 685 Fifth Avenue, previously the headquarters of Gucci, from General Growth Partners (GGP), in partnership with Deutsche Finance Group, for 135 million dollars.

Notable properties purchased and developed by SHVO have included Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco, Raleigh Hotel in Miami, Big Red in Chicago, and 711 Fifth Avenue in New York.

[citation needed] Shvo has conceived several art projects, including Documents of Desire & Disaster, a retrospective of contemporary photographer David La Chapelle’s work.

[23] Shvo also curated the selling exhibition Les Lalanne: The Poetry of Sculpture along with Paul Kasmin at the S|2 Gallery of Sotheby's Auction House in New York.