{"id":4374,"date":"2023-08-14T13:56:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T13:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2023-08-14T13:56:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T13:56:57","slug":"featured-broker-brian-somoza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/featured-broker-brian-somoza\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Broker: Brian Somoza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4375\" src=\"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Featured-Broker_-Brian-Somoza.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"350\" \/>Brian is a Senior Managing Director and National Self Storage Group leader based out of the Los Angeles office of JLL Capital Markets, Americas. He specializes in self storage asset sales, equity placement and advisory. He has been directly involved in more than $7.5 billion of self storage property transactions throughout his career, including the development, operation and management of self storage. Prior to joining JLL, Brian was an acquisitions manager at Public Storage, the largest publicly-traded REIT focusing on self storage properties.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Public Storage Responsibilities<\/em>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Devoted full-time efforts to investigating opportunities to acquire existing self storage facilities, negotiating contracts, coordinating due diligence, preparing proposals for the Capital Committee, and other activities necessary to facilitate the acquisition of operating properties.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><em>Experience<\/em>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">2014 to Present: Senior Managing Director, JLL Capital Markets \u2013 Self Storage<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">2011 to 2014: Acquisitions Manager, Real Estate Division, Public Storage<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">2003 to 2011: Senior Associate, National Retail Group, Marcus &amp; Millichap<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><i>Contacts:<\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\"><br \/>\nBrian Somoza<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Senior Managing<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">Director Capital Markets<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">+1 818 219 6677<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"mailto:brian.somoza@jll.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\">brian.somoza@jll.com<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian is a Senior Managing Director and National Self Storage Group leader based out of the Los Angeles office of JLL Capital Markets, Americas. He specializes in self storage asset sales, equity placement and advisory. He has been directly involved in more than $7.5 billion of self storage property transactions throughout his career, including the development, operation and management of self storage. Prior to joining JLL, Brian was an acquisitions manager at Public Storage, the largest publicly-traded REIT focusing on self storage properties. Public Storage Responsibilities: Devoted full-time efforts to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":4375,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4376,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions\/4376"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listselfstorage.com\/us\/industry-insights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}