ABOUT COMMERCIAL AGENT Gary Gustafson

Gary Gustafson has been a leader in the real estate community for more than 40 years. His last 30 years have focused on commercial real estate, with expertise in land, office, retail, multi-family and industrial properties. He has successful relationships with both national and local with companies, such as AVIS and Budget Rental Cars, ACE Hardware, Dollar Tree, Sherwin Williams, O'Reilly Auto Parts, Natural Mattress Store, Turrentine Wine Brokers, Enterprise, Dollar General, Family Dollar Store, Change Integration Systems and Platt Electric Supply. Additionally, Mr. Gustafson has worked with many of the industry leaders in the residential development industry, such as the New Home Company, Ryder Communities, Lafferty Communities, Blue Homes, and NFH.

Mr. Gustafson began his real estate career in residential, when he joined the staff of Frank Howard Allen and Company. He quickly moved up to office manager of their Novato Office. Under his direction, that office became the top unit producer for the company with a staff of 40 agents. His efforts did not go unnoticed by the real estate industry and he was then recruited to Valley Realty where he was appointed corporate Vice President and Regional Manager, overseeing 11 offices and 600 sales associates. Upon the merger of Valley Realty with Coldwell Banker, Mr. Gustafson started his own company to serve the needs of his investor clients through limited partnership offerings, primarily in the medium office market. He was responsible for the conception and development of more than 1,000,000 square feet of class A and B offices in the Western United States.

A native of Tiburon, California Mr. Gustafson, received a degree in Engineering from Northrup Institute of Technology. He joined Rockwell International as a member of the technical staff responsible for the development and implementation of the operational resource and maintenance programs for the B-1 and shuttle projects. During his time at Rockwell he became interested in real estate both as an investment vehicle and career.

Throughout the years, Mr. Gustafson's clients have benefited from his discipline, creativity, and the knowledge of both engineering and the intricacies of the fluctuating real estate market, to make him one SVN's top sales leaders year after year.