Biography

Jim has 17 years of experience in commercial real estate, tenant and landlord representation, underwriting and debt/equity origination. He began his career as an auditor and started in real estate with Colliers B&K in Denver as a real estate leasing and sales broker. Since returning to Cleveland in 2003, Jim has structured and closed equity and debt transactions with a total capitalized value in excess of $4 billion. This includes debt financing, as well as various investments into office, industrial, retail, multifamily, hotels, self-storage, and parking assets. He has also advised clients in negotiating discounted payoffs, note sales, equity and joint venture structuring, property valuation, lease review and investor return analysis.

Education

Miami University, Oxford, OH
Bachelor of Arts in Finance

Recognition

2012 - Inducted into the Midwest Commercial Real Estate Hall of Fame
Member of NAIOP
Member of the Greater Cleveland Mortgage Association
Licensed real estate broker in Colorado

Recent Transactions

Industrial	Life Company	$6,500,000.00	Louisville	KY
Industrial	Life Company	$7,100,000.00	Twinsburg	OH
Industrial	Life Company	$14,000,000.00	Multiple cities	OH
Retail	Other	$850,000.00	Fremont	OH
Industrial	CMBS	$18,375,000.00	Pontiac	MI
Industrial	Bank	$9,000,000.00	Xenia	OH
Industrial	Life Company	$1,240,000.00	Cleveland	OH
Multifamily	CMBS	$15,262,500.00	Cleveland	OH
Industrial	Life Company	$3,900,000.00	Mayfield Village	OH
Industrial	CMBS	$60,420,000.00	Akron	OH
Office	Other	$18,100,000.00	Cleveland	OH
Multifamily	Life Company	$79,240,144.00	Cleveland	OH
Retail	CMBS	$15,750,000.00	Cleveland	OH
Multifamily	Bank	$3,809,520.00	Holland- 1776 Airport Park Court, Holland, MI 49423
Industrial	CMBS	$13,642,500.00	Moraine	OH
Multifamily	Life Company	$1,250,000.00	Tallmadge	OH
Retail	Life Company	$1,460,000.00	North Ridgeville	OH
Industrial	Life Company	$8,100,000.00	Middleburg Heights	OH
Retail	Life Company	$11,000,000.00	Ft. Wayne	IN
Industrial	Life Company	$4,950,000.00	Bedford	OH
Retail	Life Company	$23,150,000.00	Caledonia	MI
Industrial	Life Company	$10,800,000.00	Cleeland	OH
Office	CMBS	$4,100,000.00	Independence	OH
Industrial	Life Company	$4,250,000.00	Worthington	OH
Multifamily	Agency	$12,901,000.00	Cleveland	OH
Retail	CMBS	$2,475,000.00	North Olmsted	OH
Industrial	CMBS	$52,253,500.00	Louisville	KY
Office	Life Company	$30,000,000.00	Cleveland	OH
Industrial	Life Company	$4,710,000.00	West Columbia	SC
Multifamily	Other	$14,200,000.00	Cleveland	OH
Multifamily	Bank	$480,000.00	Cleveland	OH
Retail	CMBS	$36,950,000.00	Willoughby	OH
Industrial	Bank	$2,034,500.00	Mableton	GA
Office	Life Company	$3,975,000.00	Beachwood	OH
Hospitality	CMBS	$8,050,000.00	North Olmsted	OH
Self-Storage	Bank	$1,200,000.00	Cleveland	OH
Multifamily	Life Company	$750,000.00	South Euclid	OH
Office	Life Company	$3,710,000.00	Willoughby	OH
Office	Life Company	$2,250,000.00	Mayfield	OH
Office	Life Company	$3,300,000.00	Mayfield Heights	OH
Multifamily	Life Company	$1,600,000.00	Shaker Heights	OH
Office	Life Company	$1,150,000.00	Beachwood	OH
Office	Life Company	$1,600,000.00	Valley View	OH
Office	Life Company	$1,400,000.00	Cleveland	OH
Industrial	Life Company	$5,250,000.00	Columbus	OH
Multifamily	CMBS	$10,000,000.00	Cleveland	OH
Multifamily	CMBS	$14,200,000.00	Cleveland	OH
Industrial	Bank	$1,650,000.00	Willoughby	OH
Industrial	Life Company	$3,700,000.00	Twinsburg	OH
Retail	Bank	$1,975,000.00	Elyria	OH
Office	Bank	$2,340,000.00	Dayton	OH
Multifamily	Other	$700,000.00	Cleveland	OH
Multifamily	Freddie	$28,115,000.00	Strongsville	OH
Multifamily; Office; Retail	Bank	$3,260,000.00	Cleveland Heights	OH
Industrial	Life Company	$3,050,000.00	Columbus	OH
Multifamily	Fannie	$20,000,000.00	Brunswick	OH
Multifamily	Life Company	$550,000.00	Lakewood	OH
Industrial	Life Company	$19,750,000.00	Romulus	MI
Industrial	Other	$21,450,000.00	Beavercreek	OH
Multifamily	Bank	$29,683,291.00	Cleveland	OH