About Michael

Michael J. Longi joined Avison Young as a Principal in the Las Vegas, Nevada, San Diego, California and Austin, Texas offices with a mandate to help grow the firm’s investment land and development land sales service lines in throughout the United States. In addition, he serves on the U.S. Capital Markets team.

Michael brings 25 years of commercial real estate investment sales experience to Avison Young, most recently as CEO of Realty Specialists, which he founded in 2002. During his career, Michael has completed approximately one billion dollars’ worth of investment property sales while focusing on land and multi-family property development transactions. Michael has diverse experience negotiating, facilitating and managing all aspects of real estate transactions for home builders, developers, REITs and private investors. Prior to starting Realty Specialists, he was a broker with Realty Executives.

Before entering the real estate industry, Michael worked in the transportation sector and served in the U.S. Navy. A Gulf War veteran, he received two Battle E national defense service medals during his four years of Navy service.