Professional Experience
Associated Office
Justin Ross is a First Vice President with CBRE’s multifamily investment group. He concentrates on the middle-market of Chicago and the surrounding suburbs with property values ranging $2-$25 million and containing between 20-200 units.
Justin began his career in multifamily investment sales in 2003. Throughout his tenure, he has represented a wide range of clients from small neighborhood owners to private portfolio owners, as well as financial institutions, private equity groups and hedge funds. To date, his transactions have totaled over 6,500 units with a consideration of almost 1-Billion dollars. Over his career, he has successfully closed over 120 transactions with an average deal size of 50 units and 7.5MM. Annually, his team consults on roughly 100MM worth of apartment properties- providing for invaluable resources and information for clients.
With over 20 years of experience, Justin has worked at both large and small firms. His various roles have ranged from day-to-day brokerage, to building groundwork and infrastructure, training brokers, and sourcing and hiring staff. He has contributed as a speaker and moderator to several commercial real estate forecast conferences and enjoys understanding and meeting client objectives. Justin and his team currently advise and represent high-net-worth individuals, local and foreign syndicators, small to mid-sized funds, portfolio owners, family trusts, non-profit organizations, and new construction developers of luxury, boutique properties. Clients choose to engage with Justin and his team because they value critically accurate information and consultation as a baseline for their major decision making. They hire CBRE for the teams’ unparalleled platform and sales outcomes.
Justin is also an active member of his community. He is currently a member/donor of the Old Town School of Folk Music, past board member for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society Poker Run, and past coach for an inner-city NFP ice hockey program. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with friends and family and playing guitar in a local cover band.
Education
- University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana - B.S.-2003
Professional Affiliations/Accreditations
- CBRE Chicago Circle Recipient - 2018
Significant Valuation/Consulting Assignments
- 1528 Unit, 500MM Chicago Portfolio - Local Syndicator
- 1711 Unit, 180MM Chicago Portfolio - Foreign Capital Group
- 1801 Unit, 138MM Senior Portfolio Chicago - Local High Net Worth Individual
- 129 Unit, 72MM New Construction Portfolio Chicago - Local Developer
- 278 Unit, 60MM Downtown Detroit Property - American Multinational Investment Bank
Significant Clients Represented
- Catholic Theological Union - Chicago
- BJB Partners
- Arthur Hill and Co.
- John Buck
- RDG Funds
- Good News Partners
- Draper and Kramer
- SRJ Developers
- Wintrust Financial
- Bank of America
Team Overview
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Specialize in multifamily properties around the Chicago area.
The CBRE Chicago Multifamily team has a combined 50+ years of experience to give clients unparalleled expertise. Based in Downtown Chicago, we provide our clients with the industry’s cutting-edge underwriting analysis, marketing strategy, due diligence knowledge, and negotiation expertise to deliver best in class service. Since 2005, we have completed over 200+ multifamily sales in the Chicago MSA and neighboring Midwest markets, totaling over $13 billion.
John Jaeger is one of more than fifty professionals that are part of CBRE's Institutional Properties. The CBRE Institutional Properties are in every major market across the United States and is linked to their peers in the major markets throughout the world. This comprehensive service set offers clients access to active and emerging global institutional investors, and speed to market via highly customized and effective marketing campaigns.
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