Jason Gardner has devoted his entire professional career to the multifamily apartment industry in the State of Michigan, with over 25 years’ experience across multiple sectors of the brokerage field. In this time, Jason has established himself as one of IPO’s most accomplished and well-versed leaders with over 200 property and 20,000-unit sales and a realized transactional value approaching $700 million across many markets in the state. Comprehended in these figures is the sale of over 100 apartment properties and 5,000 units within the City of Detroit, including the successful disposition of several distressed assets-REO and short-sales. Jason’s sales performance in the City of Detroit exceeds all brokers over the past 2.5 decades, positioning him as the leading expert in the multifamily apartment industry in SE Michigan.
Within the IPO organization, Jason has emerged as a key architect of an exclusive and proprietary network database, that was designed to comprehend ownership, research, and market analysis tools for a broad range of multifamily properties. This information technology system has been implemented across the organization and provides all IPO brokers access to an exceptional information data pool. Additional noteworthy experience entails significant dispositions of distressed assets-REO, Short Sale, and Receivership Sales-on behalf of local & regional lenders, as well as CMBS special servicers.
Jason’s educational background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Business Law from Michigan State University, along with international coursework at Cambridge University in England, the World Agricultural College in the Netherlands, and the Guadalajara University in Mexico. Jason is a licensed associate broker in the state of Michigan and a licensed broker in Illinois. In the interest of providing clients with extensive knowledge and insight into the physical construction process, Jason also maintains his credentials as a licensed builder in the State of Michigan.
