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Jared L. Booth assists clients in sales, leasing, and consulting regarding all property types throughout the country as a top producer at his number-one globally ranked office, associated with Colliers International as of 2018.
Mr. Booth has worked exclusively by referrals of satisfied clients since 1995. A fourth-generation real estate professional, he is a trusted advisor and consultant to successfully navigate clients through the complex real estate transaction process with an extensive background in brokerage, marketing, consulting, financial analysis, and expert witness legal assistance.
Mr. Booth's unique depth of industry involvement, recognition and perspective provides tangible benefits to his clients. Mr. Booth has been honored as the only Utah broker to be awarded both Utah Commercial Realtor of the Year ('15), and Utah CCIM of the Year ('12) awards. Mr. Booth obtained his Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation in 2007. The CCIM designation is one of the most coveted and respected designations in the commercial investment real estate industry, with recipients recognized as experts in their field. Reflecting the caliber of the program, only 6 percent of the estimated 150,000 commercial real estate practitioners nationwide hold the CCIM designation.
Approximately 75% of Mr. Booth's practice is traditional brokerage across multiple disciplines. Approximately 25% includes consulting, corporate and legal assistance assignments.
Russ Booth was raised in Salt Lake City, earned a master’s degree from BYU and served as a department chairman for the BYU administrative offices. He began his career in real estate, now over 40 years ago, in 1973 with Woodbury Corporation as a leasing agent, a property manager and a development coordinator for more than ultimately 60 properties, including hotels, apartments, retail centers, office buildings and industrial properties. For over 20 years Russ served as president and principal broker of Mansell Commercial Real Estate Inc., which was purchased by Coldwell Banker NRT in 2001. Russ worked with Coldwell Banker Commercial and then CBC Advisors since 2001. He joined Colliers International in 2018.
Russ has spent many years in volunteer positions in the real estate community, including committees and as president of the Salt Lake Board of Realtors and the Utah Association of Realtors. Russ served as the 1997 president of the entire National Association of Realtors (NAR), based in Chicago with 1,100,000 members. Subsequently he twice served as chairman for the International Consortium of Real Estate Associations (ICREA), with real estate groups of over 40 of the largest countries of the world participating. He is currently the chairman of the Real Estate Commission of the State of Utah.
Real estate designations currently held are the CCIM, CRE, CRB, CIPS and GRI. In addition to general commercial brokerage and leasing, Russ spent many years working for corporate and institutional groups, such as the DFCM of the State of Utah, the third district court on disposition of over 300 properties of failed financial thrifts in Utah. He has done extensive fee-based consulting on larger projects, such as the Delta Center and Hill Air Force Base; managed and sold the former Word Perfect/Novell Campus in North Orem and land for the Swire Coca Cola Draper facility; leased Ernst & Young facilities; and helped buy, sell, reposition and develop land and buildings for the Jordan School District. Russ is very active in legislative and political activities, local issues in his Millcreek neighborhood and church responsibilities and is manager of several real estate investment partnerships.
He and his wife, Nina, have 6 children 13 grandchildren.