Young Leader of the Year
2024 Winner: Mike Harris, Halstatt Real Estate Partners
Mike Harris is an associate for Halstatt Real Estate Partners. In his role as an Associate, he supports the Principals in the acquisition, disposition, and operation of assets. His duties
include financial modeling, deal analysis, valuation and reporting on current assets. This role allows him to provide detailed insight into specific acquisition and asset management
considerations.
Prior to joining Halstatt in 2020, Mike held roles in residential and commercial real estate in Texas and Florida including investment, sales, and property management. Additionally, he took an active role in revising the seventeenth edition of the Brueggeman and Fisher Real Estate Finance & Investments textbook and developed his own real estate modeling excel
course, called Financial Analysis with Real Estate Modeling, currently being used at multiple universities across the United States. In total, he has been involved in real estate
in the Southeast U.S. for over eight years.
Originally from Houston, Texas, Mike earned a Master’s degree in Real Estate and a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Urban and Regional
Planning and Real Estate from the University of Florida while also a pole vaulter on the track and field team. Locally, he is Treasurer for Habitat NextGen, is Chair of the Young
Leaders Group with Urban Land Institute’s SWFL district, and was a Class of 2021 Associate Leadership Collier alumnus.