Garrett Sholer

Background

About Garrett Sholer

Garrett Sholer is a Principal and Senior Vice President with Lee & Associates. With 25 years of experience in Commercial Real Estate Investments and Development, his primary focus is facilitating the acquisition and disposition of Federal Opportunity Zone properties (A practice Group within Lee & Associates founded by Garrett in 2018). Garrett's primary focus is sites which are economically viable for ground-up development or redevelopment. This most frequently includes a multi-residential (apartments) component and often includes assisted/senior living and/or a low-income housing component. Furthermore, Each year Garrett brokers the sale of numerous of development sites and existing Self-Storage facilities in the Western United States. Over his 25 years in commercial real estate, Garrett has been involved in hundreds of transactions including most commercial product types (industrial, self-storage, retail, multi-residential, assisted living, & hotel sites). Prior to joining Lee & Associates, he practiced at Grubb & Ellis (now: Newmark Knight Frank) where he completed development projects, landlord/tenant assignments in addition to investment property sales. Garrett started his Commercial Real Estate Investment career at a prominent publicly traded Commercial RE investment Firm in 1993, where he brokered the sale of dozens of multi-tenant commercial investment properties throughout Southern California. From 2004 through 2013, Garrett further expanded his experience by managing a commercial real estate investment and development company. This experience provided unique insight into the challenges of developing, repositioning and the ongoing management and ownership of commercial real estate. As a constant learner/student of his trade, Garrett continuously seeks to expand the depth and breadth of his knowledge in order to go above and beyond in the service of his clients.