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Mark started with Franklin Storage Advisors in 2011. He has facilitated the sale of over 100 storage properties with a value in excess of $500,000,000. Mark’s sole focus is the sale of self storage properties, and he is a recognized sales valuation expert. He works tirelessly to be sure that every sale goes smoothly. Buyers rely on him to guide them through the due diligence process while sellers expect sound financial analysis and property valuations so that their properties will be priced to sell but yield maximum value. Mark began…

With a reputation as a key player in self storage investment sales, James “Ashley” Compton has sold or listed more than 19.3 million square feet of self storage over the course of his 18-year brokerage career. These transactions are valued in excess of $2.02 billion and place Ashley among top national producers. Upon joining Colliers’ Nashville office in 2016, Ashley was named a national director of self storage investment sales. While obtaining his undergraduate degree, Ashley launched his career as an acquisitions analyst for a self storage REIT. His brokerage…

Brandy Rundel specializes in commercial real estate in Northern California. Her success and principal focus is retail development, landlord representation and shopping center leasing. She works with many local, regional, national retailers and has over 20 years of experience leasing open-air power centers, neighborhood and mixed-use developments. Prior to joining Northstate Commercial Partners, Brandy spent much of her career preleasing retail shopping center developments while working for commercial developers Sooner Investment and Collett & Associates based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Most recently, she leased and managed an established lifestyle center…

Ken is the principle broker and owner of Northstate Commercial Partners. Having been in the business for over 30 years and developed friendships and professional associations across the state and the country, Ken prides himself less on what he knows and more on who he knows. With affiliations in the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) and the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), Ken has built a network of trusted colleagues across all geographic regions and product types that continue to feed real estate and development leads his…

Luke Elliott is an executive managing director at Cushman & Wakefield. He is responsible for the private client and mid-market assignments in the firm’s National Self-Storage Advisory Group.  The group represents private clients, institutional investors and other financial institutions, advising them on acquisition tactics and the strategic disposition of self storage assets. Mr. Elliott has partnered with owners for over 20 years, providing advisory and transactional expertise. He is a past-president of the third largest state self storage association and has been recognized as an expert in the self storage…

Michael Sanders is an investment associate with The LeClaire-Schlosser Group of Marcus & Millichap. He is focused on serving his clients in the acquisition and disposition of self storage facilities in Phoenix as well as secondary and tertiary Arizona markets. Michael graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Sociology from Dixie State University in St. George, Utah. While attending school, he participated on the University’s football team. Michael led the Trailblazers as the starting quarterback as well as a team captain. While excelling on the field, he also won in…

Brett Hatcher has been with Marcus & Millichap since 2006 and is currently a senior managing director investments. In his time with Marcus & Millichap, Brett has successfully brokered over 627 transactions, totaling over $3.9 billion in real estate. An expert from the ground up to lease up, Brett is up to date in all aspects of self storage investments, including management, operations, market conditions, capital market and economic trends impacting the self storage industry. Brett’s knowledge of the self storage market is unparalleled in the industry and has consistently…

Mike Mele, Vice Chairman, leads Cushman & Wakefield’s national Self-Storage Advisory Group, which represents clients ranging from private investors to large-scale REITs in the development, expansion, consolidation, acquisition and disposition of self storage assets. Mr. Mele began his career in self storage investment sales in 1999. He went on to build an industry-leading team, which he brought to Cushman & Wakefield in 2019. Based in Tampa, the 18-member, multi-market team has closed more than 600 self storage transactions totaling more than $6 billion. In 2020 alone, the team closed 41…

Linda Cinelli began in 1989 as a professional real estate broker in commercial real estate and land sales.  Since 1994, she has specialized in investments and the self storage industry.  Her area of expertise includes real estate acquisition, asset disposition, development and institutional representation.  She is a CCIM whose other professional affiliations include CIREI, CBA, IREOBA. She has achieved the designation of CEA, a Certified Exchange Advisor, for those clients performing 1031 exchanges.  Linda is the founder and president of the Northern New Jersey CCIM District, which merged into the…

Edan Cohen is a co-founder at Sector Property Group. In partnership with Linda Cinelli and LC Realty and as an affiliate broker of Argus Self Storage Advisors, Mr. Cohen is responsible for originating and executing the sale of self storage facilities throughout the Northern New Jersey, New York City and Long Island territories. Representing both private and institutional owners and investors in the acquisition and disposition of multifamily, development, office, retail and industrial properties in both on and off-market transactions, Mr. Cohen has successfully closed over $400 million in aggregate…