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2026 The ApartmentBuildings.com 100
Dealmakers of the Year
- Arcus Harbor Closes Multiple Multifamily and Retail Financing Transactions
- Ariel Affordable Housing Team Closes $3.65 Billion in NYC Deals
- Berkadia’s Ernest Katai Fuels Triple-Digit Production Growth
- Colliers’ Will Mathews Closes $2.5 Billion in Sales Over the Past Year
- Connor Kerns with Matthews Boosts Multifamily Momentum Throughout the Southeast
- Eric Chen with CBRE Closes $6.5 Billion in Multifamily Sales and Financing
- Greysteel Mid-Atlantic Team Drives Multifamily Activity Across D.C. Region
- HKS Real Estate Advisors Surpasses $30 Billion in Transactions Since 2011
- Jamie May Leads JBM to $20 Billion+ in Multifamily Sales
- Lument’s Vic Clark Originates Over $13 Billion in Real Estate Loans
- Mark Goodman Oversees a $5-Billion Multifamily Brokerage and Market-Intelligence Platform
- Michael Reyes, with Opportunity Home, Spearheads Affordable Housing Transformations in San Antonio
- Newmark’s Joseph Smolen and Geoff Boler Advise on Over $135 Billion in Multifamily Deals
- Noah Birk and Aaron Sklar with Kiser Group Oversee $1 Billion-Plus Chicago Multifamily Brokerage
- Otto Ozen with the Mogharebi Group Oversees $3.5 Billion in California Multifamily Sales
- Cushman ＆ Wakefield’s Pat Knowlton Delivers Results Across Colorado’s Multifamily Market
- THG Multifamily Advisors Founders Generate $12 Billion in Deals
- Walker ＆ Dunlop’s Mo Beler and Jonathan Paine Advise on $40 Billion in Transactions
- GREA Partners Brown and Wellar Close $9 Billion in Multifamily Deals
- Drew Fletcher Brings Owner, Operator and Capital Markets Expertise to Greystone
- Simon/Anderson Multifamily Team Covers Washington State at Kidder Mathews
Jamie May Leads JBM to $20 Billion+ in Multifamily Sales
Jamie May, founder and CEO of JBM Institutional Multifamily Advisors, has spent more than 26 years in Florida multifamily brokerage, building a firm focused on institutional and major private owners. JBM has completed more than $20 billion in multifamily transactions involving 176,000-plus units.
JBM has maintained more than 70% market share in Southwest Florida, where it has been active since 2000.
The firm handled seven transactions totaling $472 million in 2025, including the 264-unit Centro, the 200-unit Coastal Village student housing property and the 280-unit Estero Oaks in Lee County. It also sold Collective at Archer, a 172-unit build-to-rent community in Gainesville that represented the market’s highest-per-unit, market-rate institutional transaction of 2025.
In 2026, JBM sold The Preserve at Tampa Palms, a 378-unit value-add community in New Tampa. The transaction pushed JBM’s cumulative business with Inland Real Estate Group above $1 billion across 18 transactions and more than 5,100 units since 2010.
May has been recognized by CoStar and Connect CRE. JBM participates in the National Multifamily Housing Council and Urban Land Institute, including ULI Florida’s Multifamily Development Council.
These are some of the reasons why JBM Institutional Multifamily Advisors was selected to receive ApartmentBuildings.com’s AB 100 Dealmaker of the Year Award, which recognizes those who demonstrate creativity, skill and success in the multifamily industry.