Mike Ritz
Principal Broker, Warehouse Connection
Memphis, TN 38116
Phone (901) 277-6618
Property Types
Office, Flex
Markets
Memphis
Bio
Mike joined Warehouse connection as Principal Broker in 2003. Mike is also the owner and Principal Broker of Ritz Investments through which Mike assists others with income property real estate sales, purchasing, leasing, development, and financing. All of Mike’s industrial property activities are done under and for Warehouse Connection.
Mike is a semi retired income property lender and developer. After joining Leader Federal Savings and Loan Association in 1987, he soon became the Manager of Commercial Real Estate Lending and a member of the Executive Committee. Leader went public in 1993 and was merged with Union Planters National Bank in 1996. After the merger Mike managed the largest commercial loan portfolio in the Memphis area for UP.- $350,000,000. He then joined Loeb Properties, one of his loan customers, to manage their new developments which numbered over 10 and had a value of over $50,000,000. Mike then decided to accomplish these and other real estate activities for his own account and to live a more self-directed life style.
Mike originally came to Memphis in 1977 as the first Director of the Memphis and Shelby County Office of Planning and Development as a joint appointed official for the City and County Mayors. He later managed the corporate marketing and planning for a nationwide 10 office planning and engineering company. He also developed and managed the construction and leasing of over 20 different income properties in Tennessee, North Carolina and Arkansas for a Memphis based real estate company.
Besides being a licensed Tennessee Real Estate broker, Mike also holds an inactive Tennessee Professional Engineer’s license. He served as the first Chairman of the Depot Redevelopment Corporation of Memphis and Shelby County to which position he is appointed by the City and County Mayors. Currently, Mike is on the Shelby County Commission - a position to which he was elected by the voters of Shelby county.
