New guy - investment brokerage & tenant rep background

[Gabriel Silverstein]

I came to the site looking for some info on REO compilers, a seemingly interesting area that I somehow managed to avoid stumbling across in the last 15 years of corporate and commercial real estate. I don't do residential-related work per se, but occasionally we have worked with buyers looking for bulk purchasing.

As noted, my background is 15 years in corporate and commercial real estate. I have done both investment brokerage and tenant rep work. Investment brokerage is my real focus and preferred of the two areas, what I got my start in at LaSalle Partners (now Jones Lang LaSalle) but I nonetheless have just over $1 billion in tenant representation experience (mostly at Equis), so I've seen more than a few deals that way as well. As an offshoot of the investment brokerage work I do, I also do some equity investment placement/sourcing, primarily through larger private equity elic Real Estatefirms and occationally through hedge funds.

I deal with office, retail, hotel, multi-family and industrial properties. Almost everything I do is off market deals. Though occasionally that can involve a $5 million to $10 million deal size, most of what I do is $25 million and up. Most of my experience is US based, but I am active in several international markets, currently including China, Japan, the Dominican Republic and France. In total I have completed transactions in 18 countries including the US, and 45 states in the US (plus most Canadian provinces).

I am always looking to learn more and meet new people (buyers, sellers, brokers, others). I haven't gotten to tear through this entire site, but thus far it certainly seems to have a wealth of potentially interesting topics and participants (those that follow the rules and aren't banned, which seems to be a disturbingly high percentage of the posts I've seen thus far - is it that hard to not turn a post into an advertisement for oneself?!). Post away, all, I hope to make a contribution or two worthy of the time it took anyone to read this, and me to type it!