Professional Experience
Associated Office
Ryan Watts joined CBRE in 2000 and is an Executive Vice President in the Minneapolis Institutional Properties Group specializing in major investment transactions for single-tenant and multi-tenant office and industrial properties.
Ryan is a member of the Institutional Properties Group nationally and is partnered locally with Harrison Wagenseil, and Tom Holtz. As an investment professional, Mr. Watts and the team provide advisory and brokerage services required for complex real estate transactions and investment sales. Ryan is also a member of CBRE Corporate Capital Markets, a group focusing on the sale of single tenant properties, sale/leasebacks, and built-to-suit financing.
Prior to joining the Institutional Properties team, Ryan was a part of CBRE’s Global Corporate Service group focusing on representation and advisory services for corporate clients. Ryan started his career in CBRE’s
Chicago office in the Financial Consulting Group and transferred to Minneapolis in 2003 as a Director of the Minneapolis Financial Group where he provided analytical consulting for Institutional Real Estate dispositions, acquisitions, and leasing transactions.
Education
- University of Wisconsin at Madison, Bachelor of Business Administration; Real Estate and Urban Land Economics
Professional Affiliations / Accreditations
- CBRE Capital Markets – Institutional Properties
- CBRE Corporate Capital Markets
- Urban Land Institute (ULI)
- National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP)
- Minnesota Commercial Association of Realtors (MNCAR)
- Licensed Real Estate Broker (Minnesota)
- University of Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Association
Achievements
- Mr. Watts has completed more than $17 billion in transaction consideration value for office, industrial, land and corporate sale/leaseback consulting and sale assignments.
- 2023: CBRE Bob Jackson Award: Recognizing leadership, integrity and ethical business practice
- 2021: NAIOP Broker Award of Excellence for investment sale
- 2019 & 2020: CBRE Minneapolis Service Line Leader
- 2018 & 2020: CBRE Minneapolis Top Sale Professional
- 2017-19: CBRE America’s Top Producer; recognizing sales professionals in the top 10% of the Americas region by production
- 2015, 16, 20-22: CBRE America’s Top Producer; recognizing sales professionals in the top 20% of the Americas region by production
- 2011, 13-23: Chairman’s Club Award, CBRE - awarded to top local sales professionals by revenue
- 2008, 10, 11, 13, 15-18: MNCAR Investment Transaction of the Year
Partial Client List
- AEW
- Altus Properties
- Artis REIT
- Cargill
- CBRE Investment Management
- DRA Advisors
- EOP/Blackstone
- Founders Properties
- New York Life
- Opus
- Principal Financial Grp.
- Ryan Companies
- Starwood
- United Healthcare
- United Properties
Team Overview - Minneapolis Institutional Properties
Focusing on the disposition of single and multi-tenant office and industrial assets.
With a combination of over 100 years of experience in the real estate business, our team delivers unparalleled speed-to-market and exposure for all of our listings, resulting in the highest pricing and surety of closing for our client’s properties.
Ryan Watts, Harrison Wagenseil, and Tom Holtz have a formal partnership which has allowed us to become the leading team in the Upper Midwest. Our team approach delivers combined experience and capital markets knowledge, availability, quick responses and the ability to devote 100% of time and effort to a specific project when it is required.
Focusing on the disposition of single-tenant, sale/leaseback, and multi-tenant real estate investment sales nationally and across the Midwest, since 2005 the Minneapolis IP Team has executed some of the most complex real estate investment sales in the Minneapolis market and over 90 national markets across the country valued at over $17 billion.
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