Chris Kim is a Multifamily Investment Advisor at Ally Commercial Real Estate, where he specializes in helping buyers, sellers, and developers navigate multifamily transactions across Greater Los Angeles and Southern California.
Before entering commercial real estate, Chris spent nearly a decade in public sector urban planning — working for the City of Los Angeles, the City of Beverly Hills, and the City of Santa Clarita. That experience shapes how Chris approaches every transaction: a working knowledge of zoning, entitlements, and land use that informs how he evaluates opportunities and guides clients through complex transactions.
A graduate of California State University, Northridge, where he earned both his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Urban Planning, Chris brings the same analytical rigor to his real estate practice that defined his planning career — with a focus on helping clients find, underwrite, and close the right multifamily opportunities.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Chris lives in the city with his wife and son. Outside the office, you'll find him on the golf course or catching a basketball game.
Nearly a decade inside three different city planning departments — the kind of working knowledge of zoning, entitlements, and land use that's hard to fake in a deal review.
A planner's training translated to the deal: structured analysis, due diligence, and disciplined underwriting on every multifamily opportunity.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, with the neighborhood-level read on Greater LA submarkets that only comes from growing up in them.
Whether you're sourcing your next acquisition, repositioning an asset, or trying to figure out what the zoning will actually allow — the first call is on Chris.
Fourteen advisors across the Off-Market Collective, Multi-Family, Industrial, and Net Leased divisions — all bringing their own discipline to every deal.
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