Mike Christopher
Sr. Director of Land, RealtyMasters Commercial Corp.
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33311
Specialties
Investment Sales Broker
Property Types
Industrial, Land
Markets
South Florida, Southwest Florida
Bio
Michael Christopher started his career in the real estate industry over 30 years ago with Context Development Company, a major Florida land developer with numerous projects throughout the state. While at Context he transitioned to project manager of Flint Ridge, a 7,000 acre second home/resort community on the Illinois River in Oklahoma. He left Context to found Trans-Continental Properties, a commercial brokerage, management and investment firm that brokered and partnered on the ownership of numerous transactions during his 14 year tenure. Later he spent over 6 years with The Richard-Brandon Company, a privately-owned real estate investment, development and brokerage firm. Responsibilities included identifying, analyzing, and negotiationing for the acquisition of various real estate opportunities ranging from existing commercial buildings, such as the 95,000 square foot Bank of America building in Hialeah, to sites for luxury townhouse and condominium projects, such as The Reserve of Pinecrest. He also assisted in the financial and market analysis, pricing and governmental approval process.
Since 2004 he has brokered the sale of shopping centers, apartment buildings, mobile home parks, and numerous vacant residential and commercial sites totaling over $75,000,000. The most significant transactions were the sale of the Isla-Gold Mobile Home Park in South Dade for $12,850,000, the Palm Parkway parcel (a 54 acre commercial/hotel site on I-4 in Orlando) for $27,500,000, the Winn Dixie Plaza in Riviera Beach for $7,105,000 and Willow Creek East (an 89 acre commercial site in Titusville) for $6,860,000.
In addition to his brokerage activities he was co-general partner of Vista Lakes (a 29 unit luxury housing project successfully completed in Davie, FL), co-general partner of Vista Lakes West (a 130 acre -97 unit estate lot project in Davie, FL), co-managing member of CVM Properties LLC (a 400 acre rural lot subdivision parcel in Atascadero, CA) and sole general partner of Christopher Ranch (a 650 acre subdivision also in Atascadero, CA) in addition, Mike has developed several small subdivisions in Miami-Dade County and New Mexico.
He is a long standing member of the Urban Land Institute.
