Real Estate 2025: LOUIS J. ROGERS

Since Rogers founded Capital Square in 2012, the real estate investment company has completed more than $7.9 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 2022, Rogers’ son-in-law, Whitson Huffman, was promoted from chief strategy and investment officer to co-CEO. In 2023, the company launched its Capital Square Living subsidiary

for multifamily property management. In July, Capital Square Housing Trust offered up to 4 million shares of preferred stock at $10 a share, seeking $40 million to fund more investments.

With nearly 400 employees, Capital Square made the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing privately held companies for the eighth straight year in 2024, with a three-year growth rate of 136%. The company has been the largest developer in Richmond’s Scott’s Addition neighborhood.

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.

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