Michael Thomas

Current

Founder at Wheelhouse Investment Real Estate Brokerage

Past

Senior Advisor at Hendricks & Partners
Senior Sales Associate at Arroyo and Coates

Education

Kunming University
Bucknell University

Connections

114 connections

Industry

Real Estate

Websites

My Company

Michael Thomas’s Summary

Before founding Wheelhouse, Michael was the #1 transacting broker in Oakland, and consistently in top 3 in the Alameda County market. Michael started his brokerage career with Arroyo and Coates where he was named Senior Associate within nine months, then he worked with Hendricks and Partners before founding Wheelhouse. He is on the board of AREAEB, is an active member of RHANAC and is an advisor to an entrepreneur network in San Francisco. He lived in China in the mid-90s where he achieved fluency in Mandarin Chinese, graduated from Bucknell University where he also played four years of Division I soccer, and resides on Russian Hill in San Francisco with his wife and children in an apartment building he purchased in 2004.

Michael Thomas’s Specialties:

Accelerating the careers of ambitious commercial real estate advisors.

Michael Thomas’s Experience

Founder

Wheelhouse Investment Real Estate Brokerage

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Real Estate industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Michael co-founded Wheelhouse to create and maintain the world's greatest investment real estate brokerage platform. Their focus is on brokering commercial real estate, and their defining difference is their distinct service to broker advisors. The platform allows the advisor to be free from administrative minutia and management, creating an opportunity for them to build trusting relationships with real estate investors.
Senior Advisor

Hendricks & Partners

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Real Estate industry)

March 2005 — April 2007 (2 years 2 months)

During his time there in 2005, he was the #1 broker in Oakland based on number of transactions.
Senior Sales Associate

Arroyo and Coates

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Real Estate industry)

July 2002 — March 2005 (2 years 9 months)

He closed nearly 30 apartment building transactions during his time at Arroyo and Coates.

Michael Thomas’s Education

Kunming University

Mandarin Chinese 1998 — 1999
Bucknell University

BSBA , Business Administration , 1994 — 1998

Activities and Societies:

Delta Upsilon, Division 1 Soccer player