GRAY REAL ESTATE ADVISORS
Ann Gray, FRICS, FAIA, RIBA, LEED AP
CEO | Principal
Receiving the Chain of Office January, 2023
Building on her broad range of experience in multiple property types, Ann founded GRAY Real Estate Advisors in 1995 to provide consulting services to owners, brokers, and land-use attorneys on entitlements, development, and positioning to optimize outcomes for complex properties. Projects have taken her to Toronto, New York, Los Angeles and London.
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During 2023, after nine years as a member of its Governing Council, Ann was elected President and Chair of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), a 143,000-member international organization for property professionals. In addition to overseeing the establishment of organizational strategy and policy directives, as president, Ann became a global ambassador for the surveying profession representing its membership to government, industry, at universities and to the media. As the first president from the United States to hold this position and working from RICS's original headquarters on Parliament Square in Westminster, she was privileged to lead the organization that has credentialed and sets standards for the property professions worldwide since 1868.​
Prior to establishing her consulting practice, as Executive Director of Planning and Development at Paramount Pictures for eight years Ann oversaw property acquisition, master planning, entitlements, and pre-construction of corporate and production facilities including major new office buildings, parking structures, sound stage technical and seismic upgrades, a new film archive building and many thousands of square feet of corporate and production churn. Prior to her work at Paramount, Ann was VP Development at Indivest where she managed pre-construction of high-rise commercial projects. Over the course of her career, she has been involved in approximately a billion and a half dollars in successful project outcomes.​​​
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She is the founder of Balcony Media Inc., award-winning publisher of fine art and architecture books and publications including the industry journal FORM: pioneering design. Among the many board positions she has previously held are Trustee of the California Preservation Foundation, President of USC's Freeman House and Director of Hollywood Heritage. Ann is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Royal Institution of British Architects and Lambda Alpha, the society for land economics.
Ann is a frequent speaker and has been invited as a lecturer and juror at universities such as USC, UCLA, and Harvard Graduate School of Design and has served on the Dean's Advisory Council at Woodbury University School of Architecture. Ann has been recognized by the National Association of Women Business Owners for her entrepreneurial endeavors and is the recipient of a Los Angeles City Council Citation for her participation as an appointee to the Hollywood Redevelopment Agency Design Review Committee. She has a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and an M. Arch both from UCLA. Ann Gray is both a licensed architect and real estate broker.
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