Chris has more than 30 years of experience as an investor, advisor, business builder and problem solver in alternative asset management, banking, capital markets and real estate. His experience has included several stints as a senior executive at leading American and European banks where he executed more than $10 billion of transactions for corporations, financial institutions and global investors. Chris’s passion for real estate and finding solutions to complex problems led him to leave banking in 2017 to launch a single family lease to own company dedicated to generating strong risk-adjusted returns for investors by helping renters become homeowners.
From 2010 - 2017, Chris was at BNP Paribas in New York where he served as an Americas group head and global markets executive committee member. In this role, he led a 100 person sales and trading team and was responsible for developing and implementing strategy, client development, recruiting and risk management. Under his leadership, the group’s revenue grew from $25 million in 2010 to over $300 million. Prior to joining BNP Paribas, Chris ran his own real estate and alternative investment firm from 2007 - 2010. Earlier, from 1998 until 2006, Chris worked at Bank of America, where he was a founding member of the equity financial products group, a team he then led from 2002 – 2006 as revenue grew to $1 billion. From 1994 – 1997, Chris was at Salomon Brothers. He began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst with PaineWebber in 1992.
Chris grew up in Southern California and attended Claremont McKenna College, where he graduated magnum cum laude with a BA in Economics and Government in 1992.
Chris Innes, Managing Director of Dream America has more than 30 years of experience as an investor, advisor, business builder and problem solver in alternative asset management, banking, capital markets and real estate. Michael Corcelli has listened to over 20,000 different investment opportunities over the course of his career. They are at the Four Seasons in Miami for a casual talk about anything and everything related to investment management and performance. At the end of the day, the goal of this conversation is for you to learn something.
Speakers: Chris Innes
The Dream America fund offers investors the opportunity to earn attractive quarterly distributions and future home price appreciation while helping front-line workers, Veterans and others on the path to realizing the American Dream of Homeownership. The fund invests in single family homes in major metro areas in Florida, Georgia and Texas that enjoy strong rental demand backed by their local economy and demographic trends that are expected to continue for the next decade and beyond. Dream America underwrites applicants with an eye towards future mortgage-readiness. This process gives our tenants concrete steps they can take to become homeowners while allowing Dream America to have a better understanding of and relationship with its tenants than traditional landlords. Since launching in 2018, the company has expanded with the support of its investors and a growing network of 3,700 real estate agents that promote Dream America to their clients.
Speakers: Chris Innes
Chris Innes, Managing Director of Dream America has more than 30 years of experience as an investor, advisor, business builder and problem solver in alternative asset management, banking, capital markets and real estate. Michael Corcelli has listened to over 20,000 different investment opportunities over the course of his career. They are at the Four Seasons in Miami for a casual talk about anything and everything related to investment management and performance. At the end of the day, the goal of this conversation is for you to learn something.
Speakers: Chris Innes
The Dream America Fund offers single family lease to own homes in major metro areas of FL, GA and TX. Dream America's CEO and Founder, Chris Innes, is going to talk about how their unique rent-to-own strategy offers investors high yield, low duration and a hedge for inflation while helping front-line workers, Veterans and others on the path to the American Dream of homeownership. Dream America offers:
Speakers: Chris Innes
The Dream America Fund offers single family lease to own homes in major metro areas of FL, GA and TX. Dream America's CEO and Founder, Chris Innes, is going to talk about how their unique rent-to-own strategy offers investors high yield, low duration and a hedge for inflation while helping front-line workers, Veterans and others on the path to the American Dream of homeownership. Dream America offers:
Speakers: Chris Innes
The Dream America fund offers investors the opportunity to earn attractive quarterly distributions and future home price appreciation while helping front-line workers, Veterans and others on the path to realizing the American Dream of Homeownership. The fund invests in single family homes in major metro areas in Florida, Georgia and Texas that enjoy strong rental demand backed by their local economy and demographic trends that are expected to continue for the next decade and beyond. Dream America underwrites applicants with an eye towards future mortgage-readiness. This process gives our tenants concrete steps they can take to become homeowners while allowing Dream America to have a better understanding of and relationship with its tenants than traditional landlords. Since launching in 2018, the company has expanded with the support of its investors and a growing network of 3,700 real estate agents that promote Dream America to their clients.
Speakers: Chris Innes
As the US and the global economies continue to simultaneously address both health and financial risks stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is a natural time for investors to reassess their own portfolio and investment allocations. Join us as we see what lenders and credit providers are doing across the marketplace.
Speakers: Antonio Zuniga, Brad Lyons, Mark Fitzpatrick, Chris Innes, and Richard Beleutz
The coronavirus crisis has rapidly become a major part of Americans’ everyday lives and many of us are thinking about how the virus has and will continue to impact all sectors of the commercial real estate industry. Coronavirus is creating extreme uncertainty in the short-term with regards to cash flows. There will be a new normal defined by how people shop, work and play in the future. The question is, how will the new norm impact the commercial real estate sector?
Speakers: Nick Neri, Ernest Johnson, Chris Innes, Michael Mangione, and Bharat Sangani, MD
Dream America LLC offers rental homes to clients who want to buy a home but need additional time to qualify for an FHA or VA mortgage due to divorce, medical issues or other factors. Dream America allows approved clients to pick any house listed for sale. Dream then buys the home and rents it back to the client until they are mortgage-ready. And to help them on their journey, Dream credits 10% of rents paid towards their purchase. The company launched in 2018 and currently operates in major metro areas of Florida, Georgia and Texas.