Scott Ruegg

D. Scott Ruegg co-founded Skyline Pacific Properties, LLC, a San Francisco-based real estate investment firm formed in 1993. Skyline says it has purchased more than 2,500 commercial properties and closed more than $7 billion in transactions since formation, and currently owns about 300 commercial properties valued at more than $500 million.

At Skyline, Ruegg oversees accounting, property management, and personnel functions. The firm describes itself as having in-house accounting, development, property management, investment management, construction, and legal capabilities.

Before co-founding Skyline, Ruegg was a principal at Rue-Ell Enterprises, Inc., where he directed corporate operations and managed a portfolio of retail and office properties. He is also a licensed real estate broker and has been involved in the acquisition, management, and disposition of more than $6 billion of commercial and residential real estate.

Ruegg is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder.

• Skyline Pacific’s core focus is real estate transactions with a single-tenant net lease component, including single assets, portfolios, sale-leasebacks, development opportunities, and joint ventures.
• The firm says it is “actively seeking investment opportunities in single tenant net leased properties, apartments and manufactured housing.”
• Skyline states it can close quickly, including transactions involving stabilized assets as well as properties requiring repositioning or redevelopment.
• The firm has decades of experience in sale-leaseback portfolios across gas stations, car washes, restaurants, banks, drug stores, office properties, and industrial properties.
• For private equity sponsors, Skyline can buy or commit to buy real estate assets at any stage of a business transaction, with the goal of improving returns through sale-leaseback financing or purchase of excess real estate.
• For franchisees and business owners, Skyline positions itself as a provider of growth capital and liquidity by building or buying new stores/facilities and monetizing existing real estate.