Agent Profile

Real Estate Professionals
James Bates

Title: Executive Real Estate Agent, Land/Investment


Specialties: Retail, Investment, Land

343 East 500 South
Salt Lake City, UT84111

Phone:  801.578.5533
Fax:  801.578.5500

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Scope of Service Experience
*Expertise: Net leased investments and land sales.
*Creating, directing and closing real estate sales and acquisitions
*Fulfilling client needs
Education
*MBA Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Management
*BS Brigham Young University, Economics
Background & Experience
Jim has built outstanding career in commercial real estate brokerage and development. With over 15 years of experience, Jim focuses on understanding and fulfilling his client needs.

Jim has been a part of some of Salt Lake City’s largest investment sales/acquisitions in the past few years.

Jim represented the owners of the City Centre I, class A office building consisting of 225,631 square feet. This asset was successfully sold to a large real estate group.

Jim also successfully represented Principal Real Estate Investors and HMG Realty Advisors (sellers) and Well Real Estate Funds (buyer) in the sale/purchase of the Questar Building – a 205,627 single tenant bond lease transaction.

Prior to joining NAI Utah Commercial Jim worked for the investment banking firm Bear Stearns & Co. in New York City and San Francisco. This background in banking and the capital markets has given Jim an edge in understanding complex transactions.

Jim also spent 6 years as the head of development for a southern California development company called SK&A. There he developed many retail shopping centers and single tenant buildings.

After development Jim spent 2 year as a leasing specialist for SK& A primarily leasing retail space.

Jim graduated from Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah with both a bachelor’s degree in economics and a masters degree in business.

This wide experience and determination for excellence has made Jim an outstanding broker and valued asset to his clients.



Professional Affiliations & Designations
*CCIM Candidate
Significant Transactions
*Questar Building: 205,627 SF, Single Tenant, Class A Office, Represented Seller and Buyer.
*City Centre: 225,631 SF, Multi Tenant, Class A Office, Represented Seller and Buyer.
*Judge Building: 80,000 SF, Multi Tenant, Class B Office, Represented Seller.
*Kukler Trust: Raw Land, Represented Buyer.


*Clients Include:
*Principal Real Estate Investors
*HMG Realty Advisors
*BH Propreties
*Price Realty
*LDS Church
*WKS Restaurant Corp.
*El Pollo Loco
*Sunridge Hotel Group
*Land Capital Group
*My Value Place Hotels
343 East 500 South, Salt Lake City UT 84111