Gabriel Graumann

As a 3rd generation entrepreneur with a bent towards real estate, it is no surprise that I was primed to pursue a career in commercial real estate. My grandfather, Gale Conner, started fresh in the Seattle market in the late 70's at age 40. Mr. Conner's first project was the purchase of a property with a burned-down house with only the foundation remaining. The successful construction and eventual sale of a new home on that foundation became the start of Connwill Incorporated, a full-service real estate construction and development firm that would grow to 70+ employees at its peak. Moving beyond single-family construction, the firm began developing large plats of land for residential and multi-family use, retail strip malls, office buildings and self-storage facilities throughout the Puget Sound region. My father was an early employee of Connwill, acting as a superintendent and project manager for seven years before leaving Connwill in pursuit of his own passion, owning his own business as a general contractor focused on residential remodels. With memories of visiting job sites as a child of both my father and grandfather, I was raised with an awareness that anything could be built over time. I joined Connwill in 2003 and started in the property and asset management side of the business. Reading retail leases, meeting with tenants, walking properties and roofs, and analyzing operating expenses is where I cut my teeth. In 2005, I became a licensed real estate broker in Washington state and began taking on non-partner clients who needed asset management assistance. The portfolio grew to half million square feet of commercial retail, mixed-use, small industrial and self-storage properties located from north Seattle to the Canadian border. After participating in the disposition of the entire Connwill portfolio by 2007, I opened my own asset management company named Connwill Management, LLC, continuing to provide asset management and brokerage services to individual investor portfolios and accredited investors. Connwill Management later became Commercial Real Estate Solutions LLC, with a stronger emphasis on investment brokerage services to clients throughout the West Coast. Now, having managed portfolios of more than 1 million SF, and personally brokering more than $150 million in real estate transactions, I hold active real estate licenses in Washington and Arizona, actively assisting buyers and sellers in search of investment properties with often overlooked value-add opportunities. Beyond real estate, I love spending active time with my wife, Joleen, and our four children, where you will often us hiking a mountain trail, exploring a backroad town, or hitting the links with my sons. You may even catch a glimpse of me on TV while "on bag" for a LPGA professional as a golf caddy, a hobby made possible through the numerous relationships built over the years.