Tim Brousse, 32

Tim Brousse studied finance at the University of Arizona without commercial real estate on his radar until after his sophomore year, when he connected with the multifamily brokerage world. One of Brousse’s aunts knew a broker at HFF prior to JLL acquiring it, and set him up with an internship at HFF’s office in Newport Beach, Calif. 

“I started there, candidly, not knowing what I was getting into but enjoyed all the people I worked with and came back the summer in between my junior and senior year, and did the same thing on the multifamily investment sales side with HFF, and ultimately was offered a position on the finance side post-graduation,” Brousse said. “I never targeted commercial real estate specifically, but it kind of fell into my lap and has been a great journey since then.”

Since joining Eastdil Secured in April 2021, Brousse has arranged several large multifamily financings on behalf of property owners, with more than $13.5 billion of deals closed. He has also led Eastdil Secured’s multifamily agency business through a partnership with PGIM, which has transacted over $5.5 billion over the past four years.

Brousse has encountered multiple market challenges in his young career, from the COVID-19 pandemic, rising interest rates and unknowns from President Trump’s global tariff policy announced on April 2. The experience of going from near-zero borrowing conditions to higher-for-longer interest rates has given Brousse an early education on steering property owners through various market cycles. 

“Deals were getting done at a rapid pace with a lot of volume and it was a great time to borrow money, and then fast forward to today — it is a little bit more challenging with the interest rate environment,” Brousse said. “It’s been eye-opening.” 

When not closing loans, Brousse enjoys playing golf in the Phoenix region where he lives. He also keeps busy as a parent, with his youngest child 2 months old.