Tim Burns

Title
Executive Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer
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Company
ApexOne Investment Partners

Tim, a Partner of ApexOne Investment Partners is an Executive Managing Director and the Chief Investment Officer. He is a member of the Investment Committee and directs the asset management of the firm’s investments. He focuses on Company and Partnership Strategy, Acquisitions, Dispositions and Asset Management. 

Tim has 30 years of real estate experience including the acquisition, finance, renovation, asset management and disposition of over 15,000 residential units, ten million square feet of industrial/warehouse space and four million square feet of retail property. 

Prior to joining ApexOne Investment Partners, Tim served as a Principal of Adams LaSalle Realty, a Chicago based multifamily investment sponsor where he was responsible for the firm’s acquisitions and venture partner relationships. 

Tim served as the Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager of Heitman Capital, an institutional real estate investment advisor with over $25B of assets under management. His portfolio at Heitman Capital included $2B of multifamily, office, industrial and retail assets.  

Prior to the acquisition of JMB Realty Corporation by Heitman Capital, Tim served as Portfolio Manager for funds within JMB Institutional Realty Corporation, including JMB Group Trust V, the largest fund invested by JMB. Within these funds, Tim was responsible for a variety of large assets with values in excess of $100M each, and led the value enhancement strategies whereby the funds significantly outperformed their relevant index returns. 

Tim is an active member of National Multi Housing Council and the Urban Land Institute. He graduated from Western Michigan University with a BA in accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant. Tim enjoys basketball, attending gymnastic meets where his daughter competes for Iowa State University, and travel.  

Tim has also been a guest lecturer at the University of Florida’s Masters of Real Estate program presenting case studies to the candidates.

Past Speaking Events

  • Housing and Inflation: What is Around the Corner?
    hosted by ApexOne Investment Partners
    May 25, 2021
    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    Panel

About ApexOne Investment Partners

ApexOne Investment Partners, LLC, a Texas limited liability company, is headquartered in Houston, Texas, with offices in Chicago, Illinois, Boca Raton, Florida, and Phoenix, Arizona, and, together with its affiliates, has substantial experience in real estate acquisition, syndication, financing, development, and disposition, as well as real estate transaction management. James A. Hearn, Ernest Johnson, Tim Burns, William Saul, and David Steele are the principals of ApexOne (the “Principals”).


Following on the success of ApexOne Growth & Income Fund I, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Fund I”), ApexOne Growth & Income Fund II, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Fund II”), and ApexOne Multifamily Fund III, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (“Fund III”), ApexOne has formed ApexOne Multifamily Special Situation Fund IV, LP, a Delaware limited partnership (the “Partnership”), to make investments in direct and indirect equity interests in multifamily residential properties, including those requiring capital infusion, repositioning, post-development leasing or which may be subject to a distressed sale, as well as indebtedness secured by such multifamily residential properties.


ApexOne Investment Partners has acquired 46 properties and invested over $1.5B in workforce and student housing communities over the last seven years. ApexOne prides itself on providing excellent living environments to its residents, high returns, and transparent communications to its investors while reducing the environmental impact of their properties. Their fund level returns on fully cycled properties have averaged over 28% and Over 94% of ApexOne’s investors have repeatedly invested in all three of their Funds.