On June 29, 2023, Blake Eagle celebrates his 90th birthday.
Those of you who joined the institutional real estate investment community any time within the past 20 years might be scratching your heads and asking yourselves, “Who in the hell is Blake Eagle?”
The fact a community focused on institutional real estate investing even exists today is due in large measure to the efforts of industry icons such as Blake Eagle, Meyer Melnikoff, Claude Ballard, George Peacock, Larry Haas, John McMahan, Barbara Cambon, Tom Gochberg and John Streicker, among others.
Who is Blake Eagle? Currently he is still working to promote the interests of NCREIF — a U.S.-based organization he founded back in the earliest days of the institutional real estate investment business.
Blake started out as a developer, a home builder, working in the East Bay area of Northern California. Then, in the early 1970s, he was recruited by George Russell to join the growing team at the Fran
