Brandon Blum

About Brandon Blum

Blum started his career in San Diego at Capstar Mortgage, a real estate brokerage and loan company, where, within 3 years, he became the highest producing loan officer, originating close to a $100 million in loans. In 2003, while still at Capstar, Blum identified a student housing shortage on the SDSU campus. Blum conceived a creative solution to convert two, three, and four-bedroom homes into six, seven, and eight-bedroom homes. Blum’s development strategy has now become a standard model for developing student housing in The College Area as well as other campuses around the country. Over the next few years, Blum converted approximately 125 homes around The College Area, quickly turning what was a side project for Blum into a new management company, SoCal Property Management Group, which became the largest single-family housing provider at SDSU, as well as one of the largest college housing redevelopments in the country. In early 2008, Blum ventured into Texas to acquire dilapidated apartment buildings from 50 to 150 units throughout Texas. Blum purchased 10 buildings with approximately total units. He successfully managed the deteriorating economic and business environment as it applied to his business, by strategically selecting which properties to maintain and stabilize, and which properties to sell. It was during this period of navigating the 2008 economic downturn in which Blum gained key learnings and principles that he still applies to his real estate investing, developing, and advising today. In 2009, Blum returned to San Diego as he identified an opportunity in the midst of a massive foreclosure crisis. Blum created a flip fund to capitalize on the opportunity. While still managing his flip fund, in 2013, Blum merged Socal Property Management with Arkyon Properties, which then acquired West Rental management - an M&A deal that would become SBMI group. Over the next 6 years, SBMI Group acquired two more management companies, and (acquired & managed) over 600 (commercial, residential, and retail assets). In 2019, SBMI’s 3rd party management division was sold. In 2021, SBMI was rebranded as the Gravis Group, which now houses both an advisory arm, as well as continuing to house a robust investment portfolio focused on multi-family housing, student housing, and independent living facilities.

Experience

1. Managing Partner

   Sbmi Group

   Jan 2013 — Present · San Diego, CA, US

Education

• The Entrepreneurial Masters Program MIT

  Entreprenuership

  2011 — 2014

Skills

• Real Estate Investor
• Short Sales
• Property Management
• Property
• Sellers
• Brokerage
• Disposition
• Distress Properties
• Relation Management
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Real Estate Transactions
• Entrepreneurship
• Single Family Homes
• Real Estate
• Real Property
• Sales
• Residential Investment Property
• Real Estate Negotiating
• Income Properties
• Commercial Real Estate
• Investment Properties
• Investors
• Management
• First Time Home Buyers
• Property Flipping
• Residential Homes
• Apartments
• Foreclosures
• Reo
• Real Estate Financing