Standard Management Company is a private real estate investment firm founded in 1961. At the time of Standard's founding, Samuel K. Freshman was managing partner at the Beverly Hills law firm of Freshman, Marantz, Orlanski, Cooper & Klein, which was subsequently acquired by Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP.

Standard was originally involved in the management and leasing of approximately one million square feet of office properties in the Los Angeles area. In the 1970s and 1980s, Standard acquired in excess of 6,000 multifamily units, operating large projects in Burbank, Santa Maria, Ontario and Sacramento, California; New Orleans, Louisiana; Nashville, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; Columbus, Ohio; Houston and Dallas, Texas; and Lawton, Oklahoma. For the past ten years, Standard has acquired multifamily properties, shopping centers, and land development projects. Standard is actively seeking acquisition opportunities in California and Nevada in the multifamily and shopping center areas, as well as land investments in California. Third party management has included all major asset classes, including recent assignments in the office and industrial areas.