Real Estate 2024: LOUIS J. ROGERS

Since Rogers founded Capital Square in 2012, the real estate investment company has completed more than $7.8 billion in transaction volume and grown from handling mainly Delaware Statutory Trust 1031 Exchange offerings to launching a real estate investment trust and developing and operating multifamily properties across the nation.

In September 2022, Rogers’ son-in-law, Whitson Huffman, was promoted from chief strategy and investment officer to co-CEO. The real estate firm also announced the launch of a private equity group that month. In March 2023, the company launched its Capital Square Living subsidiary for multifamily property management.

Capital Square made the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing privately held companies for the seventh straight year in 2023, with a three-year growth rate of 263%. The company has been the largest developer in Richmond’s Scott’s Addition neighborhood. It has about 240 employees and manages more than $6.02 billion in assets.

A graduate of Northeastern University, Oxford University and the University of Virginia School of Law, Rogers previously served as president of Triple Net Properties, which he helped found. Before that, he was a partner with Hirschler Fleischer.