Ryan Gallagher

Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Ryan has twenty-six years of commercial real estate experience. Prior to founding Space in 2018, Ryan spent eight years as a Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of the Orange County Office at HFF (now JLL). He was responsible for leading the firm’s investment sale efforts in Southern California for office properties and overseeing the firm’s investment sale practice for office, retail, industrial, and net lease properties in Orange County. Mr. Gallagher was also a part of the firm’s Leadership Team, Foreign Capital Team, and a standing member of the National Presentation Team, which handled the firm’s largest and most high-profile assignments.

Before joining HFF, Ryan spent nine years at Grubb and Ellis (now Newmark) as a Senior Vice President in the firm’s Institutional Investment Group, where he led a nationally ranked team specializing in institutional investment sales in the Western U.S. Prior to Grubb and Ellis, Ryan worked at Deutsche Bank/RREEF, assisting in the portfolio management of a twenty-million-square-foot office and industrial portfolio in the Southwestern U.S. Ryan was responsible for portfolio underwriting and assisting with the overall portfolio strategy.

Over his career as an advisor, Ryan has executed over $16 billion (USD) worth of commercial real estate transactions, representing family offices, Fortune 100 companies, and top-tier real estate investment funds, including AEW, Bank of America, Blackstone, BlackRock, CalPERS, CalSTRS, Fidelity Investments, General Electric, Goldman Sachs, Kilroy REIT, Mass Mutual, MetLife, Prudential, Rockwood, TIAA-CREF, US Bank, Wells Fargo, and Zurich Insurance in executing their commercial real estate strategies.

In addition to real estate, Ryan was the founder of Saber Fitness, a company that built and owned 27 gyms with over 180,000 members in Northern and Southern California. It became one of the largest privately-held franchisees within the Planet Fitness system before being sold to private equity in December of 2022.

Ryan obtained a B.A. degree with a major in Finance from James Madison University. His current affiliations include being a Founding Member and serving on the Board of Directors of the CHLA Heart Ambassadors and ULI. Ryan resides in Newport Beach with his wife and two children.