James Nelson

James Nelson is recognized by Broker Honors in New York, NY and is affiliated with Avison Young.

James Nelson is Principal and Head of U.S. Investment Sales at Avison Young, where he leads the firm's national investment-sales platform across the multifamily, office, retail, and development sectors. He expanded into the national role from leading Avison Young's New York Tri-State investment-sales group, and over a twenty-five-year career he has brokered the sale of more than 500 properties and loans worth over $5 billion.

He is also the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of "The Insider's Edge to Real Estate Investing" and hosts a long-running investment-sales podcast and the Massey Knakal-rooted teaching tradition he came up in. That combination of transactional production and published authority is what distinguishes his practice in the New York investment-sales market.

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