LOUIS ROGERS

Since Louis Rogers founded Capital Square in 2012, the real estate investment company has completed over $7.9 billion in transaction volume and grown from handling mainly Delaware Statutory Trust 1031 Exchange offerings to launching a real estate investment trust — of which Rogers is chairman and CEO — and developing and operating multifamily properties across the nation.

With nearly 400 employees, Capital Square made the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing privately held companies for the ninth straight year in 2025. The company manages over $6.3 billion in assets and has a 91% occupancy rate across approximately 175 properties.

A graduate of Northeastern University, the University of Oxford 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 at Hirschler Fleischer, where he founded the law firm’s real estate securities practice group.

Beginning in the 1990s, Rogers was heavily involved in the development of 1031 exchanges. He was a founder and two-time board member of the Tenant-In-Common Association, now called the Alternative & Direct Investment Securities

Association. Rogers helped draft its first best practices memorandum.

In May, his book, “Section 1031 Exchanges: How to Swap Till Ya’ Drop, Building Family Wealth While Minimizing Taxes,” was published.

A Virginia Commonwealth University Real Estate Circle of Excellence member, Rogers also receives accolades outside of work. The National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s Virginia-West Virginia chapter recognized his contributions to the community with the 2022 Frank N. Cowan Silver Hope Award.