Ryan Bain

Ryan Bain is a Vice Chairman with CBRE’s Institutional Properties team. Located in Chicago, IL, he has more than 23 years of industrial sales and leasing experience within the commercial real estate profession. Ryan specializes in representing institutional, private, and corporate clients in the acquisition, disposition and sourcing the equity capital stack in industrial real estate transactions. Over the past 9 years, Ryan has raised capital in excess of $9.5 billion for Joint Venture, New Development and New Platform initiatives. He is skilled in property / investment valuation, transaction management, site analysis, and strategic real estate planning. Ryan began his career with CBRE in 2002 and has been involved in more than 750 transactions, valued at over $28 billion and totaling over 378 MSF.

Ryan is a member of CBRE National Partners, a collaborative national partnership formed in 2010 that focuses exclusively on industrial and logistics capital markets. Located in fourteen key markets, the 118 investment sales and support professionals connect local market expertise to a national capital markets perspective. Enhanced by a fully integrated debt platform, National Partners provides strategic advisory guidance to maximize proceeds and enhance the surety of execution for national, regional and local clients. Since formation, the partnership successfully completed transactions totaling 3.5 billion sq. ft. with an aggregate value of $79.4 billion. In 2024, the team successfully completed transactions totaling 130 million sq. ft. with an aggregate value of $16.6 billion. Please visit our website at www.cbre.com/np.

The North Central NP professionals consist of six capital markets partners, seven dedicated support team members, and four financial analysts covering the Midwest markets of Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Columbus, Cincinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee and SE Wisconsin.

Prior to joining the National Partners group, Ryan directed industrial and logistics leasing in the Northeast Illinois and Southeast Wisconsin regions for CBRE’s Chicago offices.