PRESIDENT
Gabe Johansen is the co-founder and President of SMI Fund Management and is also President and CEO of the SMI Family of Companies including SMI Real Estate, SMI Property Management and SMI Capital.
Gabe is considered an authority on commercial real estate brokerage, apartment investment, creative financing structures, syndications, and repositioning underperforming assets. He has expertise across multiple asset types through differing market conditions, with a history of hands-on portfolio management to ensure consistent deal flow and returns for his clients.
Gabe owns a large portfolio of multifamily real estate outside of the fund that is valued over $150MM and totals approximately 1,000 residential units and multiple commercial buildings. He specializes in finding and winning deals, structuring debt and equity partnerships and implementing class-leading operational systems. Through the combination of investment sophistication and brokerage acumen, he is considered among his peers and industry professionals as a multifamily and commercial real estate expert.
SMI Property Management is the Willamette Valley’s largest privately held professional property management company, managing approximately 4,000 residential apartment units as well as a many commercial buildings.
SMI Real Estate is the Willamette Valley’s #1 brokerage in Multifamily sales, and conducts the area’s most comprehensive rent and vacancy survey, the SMI Apartment Update which is published every summer and winter and includes data gathered from nearly 15,000 units in four counties and is widely used by industry professionals, often being referenced in appraisal reports.