
Gary Aminoff
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- Full Name
- Gary Aminoff
- Title
- Commercial Director, KW Commercial; President, Westside Realty Advisors
- Firm
- KW Commercial (Keller Williams) / Westside Realty Advisors
- Firm Type
- Commercial real estate brokerage & real estate investment advisory / syndication (not an institutional VC fund)
- Investment Stage
- Seed Round (per provided data; in practice his activity centers on early-stage/ground-up real estate investment and syndication — no tech/startup seed deals could be independently verified)
- Check Size
- Not publicly disclosed
- Target Company Profile
- Real estate assets and partnerships — single-tenant net-leased (NNN/triple-net) properties, apartment complexes, office buildings, industrial parks, shopping centers, and condominium projects
- Sector Focus
- Commercial real estate; real estate investment partnerships and syndications
- Geographic Focus
- United States (historically Southern California/Greater Los Angeles; also Charlotte, NC and the Carolinas)
- Location
- Beverly Hills, CA and Indian Land / Ballantyne (Charlotte), SC/NC area
Background
Gary Aminoff is a veteran commercial real estate broker and real estate investment advisor with a career spanning more than five decades. He began in finance as a Certified Public Accountant — licensed in California in 1960 and advising high-net-worth individuals, real estate investors, and developers — before retiring his CPA license in 1986 to focus fully on real estate. He holds an undergraduate degree from UCLA and completed post-graduate coursework at UCLA's Anderson School of Management.
Since 1975, Aminoff and his affiliated entities have worked as brokers or investment advisors on real estate transactions exceeding $2.5 billion in aggregate value. Over that time he has developed, brokered, syndicated, managed, and acquired apartment complexes, office buildings, industrial parks, shopping centers, and condominium projects across the United States. Today he serves as Commercial Director at KW Commercial (with offices tied to Beverly Hills, CA and the Charlotte, NC/Ballantyne area) and as President of Westside Realty Advisors, where he heads an NNN (triple-net) property team specializing in single-tenant, net-leased investment properties. He holds real estate licenses in California (DRE #00499674, issued 1975) and South Carolina (issued 2023), and is a member — and former President — of the Greater Los Angeles Realtors Association, along with the National and California Associations of Realtors and the Charlotte Region Commercial Board of Realtors.
Beyond real estate, Aminoff is a prominent conservative civic figure. He is Chairman of the Board of the American Freedom Alliance and founder/chair of the Alliance for Liberty, and has held numerous roles in Republican organizations — including the Republican Jewish Coalition, Southern California Republican clubs, and the Los Angeles County Republican Central Committee, where he served on the Executive Board for roughly 19 years and as Treasurer and Technology Committee Chair. He writes political commentary under "Bear to the Right" and publishes on Substack, and has appeared on television and radio as a commentator. He is active on X as @aminoff.
Investment Thesis & Focus
- Focuses on income-producing and net-leased commercial real estate — his team specializes in single-tenant, triple-net (NNN) properties sold throughout the U.S.
- Longstanding practice of real estate syndication and investment partnerships, pooling investor capital into apartment, office, industrial, retail, and condominium projects.
- Applies a CPA-trained, analytics-first lens — his background is in real estate investment analysis, syndication structuring, and real estate taxation, subjects on which he has lectured to fellow realtors.
- Describes himself professionally as a "Real Estate Investment Advisor and Commercial Real Estate Broker," advising investors and developers rather than running a pooled venture fund.
- Note: Public sources do not substantiate an active technology/startup angel practice; the "seed" designation in the source data appears to reflect early-stage investment interest rather than a documented software/tech venture portfolio.
Notable Investments
- No specific named startup or venture-backed "seed" portfolio companies could be verified in public sources.
- His documented investment activity is in real estate: through his entities he has developed, syndicated, brokered, and acquired numerous apartment complexes, office buildings, industrial parks, shopping centers, and condominium projects across the United States.
- Single-tenant net-leased (NNN) properties — the current specialty of his KW Commercial / Westside Realty Advisors team.
- Cumulative brokerage and investment-advisory activity exceeding $2.5 billion in transaction value since 1975.
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