Bill Kearns

William "Bill" Kearns is a principal at LBA Realty, an Irvine, California-based real estate investment and management company. Public profiles identify him as a principal at LBA Realty, and a University of Idaho Foundation announcement described his role specifically as a principal in acquisitions and leasing.

Kearns has been associated with LBA for decades. The Orange County Business Journal reported in 2004 that Bill Kearns and Perry Schonfeld were named principals at LBA Realty’s Irvine headquarters, noting that Kearns had been with the company for 10 years at that point.

He is a University of Idaho alumnus. In 2012, the University of Idaho Foundation announced that William "Bill" Kearns, class of 1981, had been elected to its board of directors for a three-year term. The announcement said he earned a bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Idaho’s College of Business and Economics.

LBA Realty’s own materials describe the firm as a full-service real estate investment and management company with a portfolio of office properties. Its office platform owns and operates approximately 7 million square feet across major markets in the western United States, while LBA Logistics focuses on ownership and operation of industrial buildings.

• LBA Realty says it invests in “high quality office properties” in major western U.S. office markets, including Southern California, Northern California, Seattle, Denver, and Phoenix.
• The office strategy focuses on high-quality, mixed-use, and urban assets that meet the needs of current workplace users.
• LBA Logistics says it invests in high-quality industrial properties across major U.S. industrial markets, with a focus on core, core-plus, value-add, and development opportunities.
• LBA Logistics states a targeted minimum purchase price of $10 million.
• Revere lists Kearns’s deal-type interests as acquisition, development, ground lease, loan purchase, opportunity zone, partner buyout, pre-development, recapitalization, refinance, and rehabilitation.
• No public personal investment thesis or startup-investing criteria from Kearns was found; the available thesis is firm-level real estate investment criteria.