Gavin Reiff

Vice President, Real Estate Advisory | P.Eng., MBA Write to Gavin Reiff
Gavin Reiff

Thoughtful, practical, insightful.

An accomplished real estate professional, Gavin Reiff is known for his insightful and practical advice. Gavin understands the risks that can arise in today’s competitive and evolving real estate environment, and uses his valuable insights to ensure his clients are prepared. A thoughtful and value-driven leader, Gavin is respected amongst his colleagues as someone who is reliable, pragmatic, and collaborative.

Before joining Richter, Gavin worked in both institutional private equity and public market environments, making him proficient in investment underwriting and execution for assets with income producing and development attributes across all major real estate asset classes. He has extensive investment transaction and investment management experience as a principal investor and a joint venture partner. Gavin is also a member of advisory boards for real estate investment funds.

Gavin’s approach to every client mandate is thoughtful and detail-oriented. As a leader within the Real Estate Advisory group, Gavin works closely with all stakeholders to ensure that their concerns are understood, their issues are resolved, and their objectives are achieved.

Real estate Expertise

  • Business Planning and Investment Strategy
  • Investment Assessment and Capital Planning
  • Structured Transaction and Negotiation
  • Investment Management and Performance Benchmarking
  • Investment Liquidation and Succession Planning

Professional and Community Involvement

  • Professional Engineers Ontario, Member  since 2007

Boards and committees

  • Deveraux Group of Companies, Advisory Board  since 2020
  • REALPAC, Commercial Real Estate Research Committee  since 2018

Public Recognition

  • Quoted in the article ‘‘That eureka moment when business owners
    realize value of their real estate”, Canadian Family Office. November 2023
  • Author, ‘‘The Real Estate Family Office: Instalment No.2
    Structure and Core Functions | Aligning Vision and Circumstances.
    Getting It Right From The Beginning”, Espace Montreal. December 2022
  • Author, ‘‘The Real Estate Family Office: Exploring the History and Context of the Modern Real Estate Family Office”, Espace
    Montreal. 
    October 2022
  • Co-author of “Impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on tenants and landlords”, Espace Publications. January 2022
  • Author, ‘‘Street Smarts: Adaption is on the Horizon for Strategic Investors and Tenants: Exploring our Relationship to Cities and Population Migration Considerations’’,  Espace Montreal.  April 2021
  • Speaker, The Future of Real Estate: Assets on Blockchain, Europe Disrupt Summit.  Q3 2021