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REIT Academy
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Founder and CEO
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Washington, District Of Columbia, United States
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Jonathan Morris is listed as Founder and CEO at REIT Academy, based in Washington, District Of Columbia, United States. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at comcast.net, phone signal with area code 202, 281, and a matched LinkedIn profile for Jonathan Morris.
Jonathan Morris previously worked as Founder & CEO at Reit Academy and Senior Research Advisor at Hoya Capital. Jonathan Morris holds Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Accounting & Finance from Towson University.
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About Jonathan Morris
Career includes 30 years of executive REIT experience as CEO, Chief Investment Officer and Director of Acquisitions plus Board of Directors roles at Blue Chip companies. I am a hands-on executive and encourage a productive and cordial company culture and environment. See summary below. • I have worked through every element of creating an UPREIT from a private company portfolio to its IPO, terrific acquisitions using line draws, OPU’s & Preferred OPU’s. Negotiated and closed each deal. • Many were complex equity exchanges or OP Exchange deals. $4.7 billion total transaction activity - and counting. A brief recap:• 1991: joined The Charles E. Smith Companies, a highly respected long-term developer/owner in Washington metro. Company planned designed/developed Crystal City, Arlington, VA.• Buildout included 6.9 msf office, 4500 apartments, two large Marriott hotels plus retail space supporting the thousands of residents and workers in Crystal City each day. • 1994: Smith Residential Division goes public in one of earliest REIT IPO’s. I worked through the details of converting the private company plus 14,900 apartment units to an UPREIT structure. I then ran the acquisitions group for the REIT, successfully acquiring 5000+ apartments, growing the IPO portfolio by 44% in a few short years. Every single acquisition performed far in excess of the Best Case projections - I am proud of this fact.• Brown Brothers Harriman recruits to replace founder/CEO of sputtering, private $500mm pre-IPO REIT. Fixed all problems (many) and got ready for $240mm IPO with Merrill lynch lead banker. • Five weeks prior to our IPO Road Show, we receive an unsolicited from a public REIT to buy our portfolio. We recast the offer and ultimately agreed to the very complicated deal. I was not in favor, but I work for my board, 5/7 Brown Brothers Harriman Senior Partners, one was the managing partner of BBH + myself.• Boston Properties Ray Ritchey hires me as Director of Acquisitions. BXP sought someone w/extensive REIT experience who ran acquisitions for a large scale public REIT - a rare combination then. I spent my time with Ray Ritchey plus co-founders Mort Zuckerman and Edward Linde - we would speak often and tour the markets together, in person, every 2-3 months. • Founded REIT Academy, only deep-dive, detailed education program for working professionals. • Working on new platform currently under wraps until January 2025. Conversions of antiquated OB’s is the thesis, with a twist. Call me for more if you’ve read this far. 1-202-365-0955, mobile.
Listed skills include Real Estate, Valuation, Investments, Commercial Real Estate, and 46 others.
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Founder & Ceo
CurrentREIT Academy offers The Executive REIT Masterclass, an in-depth, six-week, one-evening per week (Zoom) course covering every detail of a REIT including: how a private firm converts or “rolls-up” to a REIT, how they are capitalized, how to analyze them and more. Taught LIVE via ZOOM by Prof. J Morris, a former acquisitions executive for two Best-in-Class.
Sep 2020 - Present
Senior Research Advisor
CurrentHoya Capital Real Estate was formed by Alex Pettee, CFA who is President and Director of Research and ETF’s. Alex and the team, as sub-advisors, launched two (2) new ETF’s (2019 + 2021) both invested in baskets of securities with a real estate theme. NYSE: HOMZ launched first in 2019, gaining traction quickly with investors and receiving many industry.
Nov 2019 - Present
Adjunct Professor & Thesis Advisor
Current
Jul 2010 - Present
Adjunct Professor & Thesis Advisor Real Estate Investment Trusts
CurrentGeorgetown University Master’s in Real Estate graduate program Created REIT course that examines public real estate investment trust’s structure, strategy & industry details. From conversion of a private RE firm to a REIT & IPO process. Unique, in-depth perspective from a professor who has spent 25+ years as an active executive in the REIT industry with.
Jun 2010 - Present
Chief Investment Officer
Chief Investment Officer for this NYSE listed public REIT (NYSE: AHH). Created defined strategy and executed on it which led to dynamic growth for AHH. Identified, underwrote and sought to acquire several class A, high-rise apartment properties in Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC. Worked through the process to dispose of a portfolio of non-core properties.
May 2019 - Jun 2020
Managing Director - Capital Markets
Managing Director - Capital Markets Total production: $263mm. Vornado refi: $108mm Rosslyn Plaza + Lerner debt: (3) - $155mm for Urban Office & Suburban Multifamily (2). Arranged institutional debt for the Real Estate Investment Trust sector, in addition to several large scale marquee private firms. Awarded a $108mm VORNADO assignment to re-capitalize.
Feb 2011 - Feb 2013
Principal
- Co-founded Lerner|Morris|Hillman (LMH) Realty Group, LLC, a $500mm Institutional Joint-Venture Private Equity Affiliate of Lerner Enterprises. LMH formed several JV acquisitions transactions with Walton Street Capital.
- 2100 M Street NW, Acq: $56.63 sold $95mm 3yrs
- 1275 K Street NW, Acq: $62.53 sold $79mm 1 yr
- Park Place, Rosslyn: Acq: $31.25 sold $63.25mm
- 20 M Street SE Navy Yard: Acq: $5.65mm Value $19mm (Rezoned, added height + density using TDR’s + wide M Street SE. At peak, portfolio was 1.25 msf and total capitalization exceeded $500 million. IRR for fund.
Jan 2000 - Jan 2007
Public Reit ($22B) Director Of Acquisitions
- Directed New Acquisitions Group for Boston Properties producing $3.7b in new acquisitions (all worked, many 2x+ on purchase price). Hired by BXP veteran Ray Ritchey, interviewed extensively with Mort Zuckerman and.
- Metropolitan Square $175mm OPU/$400mm
- 1301 New York Avenue OPU $72mm/$155mm
- 100 East Pratt Street $137mm/$220mm
- Riverfront Plaza $162mm MetLife/$247mm sale
- JV using OPU’s w/ground owner Gould to develop 400,0000 sf Market Square North, Pennsylvania Avenue at 9th street NWSecured mortgage financings for acquisition projects. $250mm Mulligan-Griffin portfolio with NWML.
Jul 1997 - Jan 2000
Ceo Pre-Ipo Office Reit $550Mm 100% Gov’T Leases
Government Property Investors, Inc.
(Company SOLD Three Weeks Prior to Road Show kickoff @23.6% IRR)Recruited by Brown Brothers Harriman to take control of stalled pre-IPO specialty Office REIT (100% US Gov leased portfolio). Working 24/7 resolved all issues & recruited nine top IBanks, led by Marty Cicco Merrill Lynch for IPO. Road Show scheduled & then public REIT makes offer. Sold.
Oct 1996 - Jun 1997
Public Apartment Reit, 1994 Ipo, Svp Director Of Acquisitions
Complex, arduous 18-month roll-up to IPO for The Charles E. Smith REIT ($11B), one of earliest REIT conversions of the Modern REIT Era advised and led by Goldman Sachs (Mike Fascitelli). Road Show Team Member for $220 Million IPO of this Best-in-Class public REIT. Built & managed first ACQUISITIONS DEPT of Newly Public REIT. Set forth underwriting.
Apr 1990 - Oct 1996
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Jonathan Morris education
Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Accounting & Finance
Towson University
Education record
Walt Whitman High School (Named “Superschool” By The Washington Post)
Banking, Corporate, Finance, And Securities Law
The George Washington University
Master’S In Real Eatate
Georgetown University
Master Of Reits, Real Estate
Reit Academy & The Executive Reit Masterclass
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Jonathan Morris works for REIT Academy.
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Jonathan Morris is listed as Founder and CEO at REIT Academy.
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Jonathan Morris is based in Washington, District Of Columbia, United States while working with REIT Academy.
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Jonathan Morris has worked for Reit Academy, Hoya Capital, Georgetown University, Armada Hoffler Properties, and Jll.
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Jonathan Morris holds Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Accounting & Finance from Towson University.
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Jonathan Morris is listed with skills including Real Estate, Valuation, Investments, Commercial Real Estate, Acquisitions, Asset Management, Real Estate Economics, and Real Estate Development.
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