Blake J. Lunt

Blake Lunt has a decade of experience in the real estate industry.  As real estate director for REVA Development Partners, he focuses on financial analysis, market analysis, valuation, and capital markets.  Before joining REVA Development Partners in January 2014, Lunt worked as a consultant on commercial real estate valuation and due diligence projects with Realogic Inc.

Prior to consulting, Lunt was a relationship manager for Northern Trust where he served as a second vice president in the commercial real estate lending group, managing a portfolio of loans to developers, REITs, and RE funds.  In his seven-year career at the company he underwrote construction, acquisition, and re-development loans for all major product types for developers across the U.S. In addition, he underwrote debt participations in investment-grade REIT revolving lines of credit and term loans. Before joining Northern Trust, he was a real estate analyst at Hamilton Partners where he assisted in the acquisition and transition of ownership of 224 S. Michigan Ave.

Lunt holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management with majors in real estate, finance, and innovation & entrepreneurship.  He is a member of ULI Young Leaders and participates in numerous industry events.

Lunt lives in Barrington, Illinois, with his wife and three young sons.