Key Takeaways
- • Berkeley Capital Advisors, described as one of the nation's top 10 retail investment brokerage firms, launched a structured finance group, its first dedicated debt brokerage service, on October 30, 2026.
- • Trevor Campbell, a commercial real estate veteran with 25 years of experience and more than $6 billion in financed, sold or acquired assets, was named managing director and will lead the group from a new Washington, D.C. office.
- • The platform will structure acquisition financing, refinancing and recapitalizations across multifamily, industrial, office, hospitality and self-storage asset classes.
- • Since its 1997 founding, Berkeley has closed 3,010 transactions totaling $18.9 billion in sales volume, including 72 grocery-anchored and multi-tenant shopping center deals last year.
Summary
Berkeley Capital Advisors, a Charlotte, N.C.-based retail investment brokerage that focuses exclusively on income-producing real estate, has launched a structured finance group, according to a press release distributed via PRWeb on October 30, 2026. The group marks the firm's first dedicated debt brokerage service and will structure debt and equity capitalization solutions for the firm's investor and institutional clients, including acquisition financing, refinancing and recapitalizations.
The platform will serve all major commercial real estate asset classes, including multifamily, industrial, office, hospitality and self-storage. Berkeley's structured finance group will be led by Trevor Campbell, who has been named managing director and will operate from a new Berkeley office in Washington, D.C. Campbell brings 25 years of commercial real estate experience and has participated in the financing, sale or acquisition of more than $6 billion in assets. He most recently led the Mid-Atlantic structured finance team at Transwestern and previously worked in the Capital Markets group at JLL. According to the release, Berkeley has referred business to Campbell for about a decade.
Rob Carter, founding partner of Berkeley Capital Advisors, said the firm had discussed adding debt brokerage for some time and that the timing is now right. Carter described the group as designed to expand client options rather than dictate them, stating that clients may choose whether to use the service and that the platform is built to complement existing lender relationships. Campbell said the platform allows the team to look beyond a single sale to a client's full portfolio, whether the outcome is a sale, refinance or recapitalization, and that running financing alongside due diligence adds clarity to a stage of a deal that can be opaque.
Since its founding in 1997, Berkeley has closed 3,010 transactions totaling $18.9 billion in sales volume, including 72 grocery-anchored and multi-tenant shopping center transactions last year. The firm plans to grow its structured finance team deliberately over time and to expand its investment sales operation across the Mid-Atlantic. Berkeley has offices in Charlotte, Richmond, Nashville, Charleston and Washington, D.C., and serves clients throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic.
The platform will serve all major commercial real estate asset classes, including multifamily, industrial, office, hospitality and self-storage. Berkeley's structured finance group will be led by Trevor Campbell, who has been named managing director and will operate from a new Berkeley office in Washington, D.C. Campbell brings 25 years of commercial real estate experience and has participated in the financing, sale or acquisition of more than $6 billion in assets. He most recently led the Mid-Atlantic structured finance team at Transwestern and previously worked in the Capital Markets group at JLL. According to the release, Berkeley has referred business to Campbell for about a decade.
Rob Carter, founding partner of Berkeley Capital Advisors, said the firm had discussed adding debt brokerage for some time and that the timing is now right. Carter described the group as designed to expand client options rather than dictate them, stating that clients may choose whether to use the service and that the platform is built to complement existing lender relationships. Campbell said the platform allows the team to look beyond a single sale to a client's full portfolio, whether the outcome is a sale, refinance or recapitalization, and that running financing alongside due diligence adds clarity to a stage of a deal that can be opaque.
Since its founding in 1997, Berkeley has closed 3,010 transactions totaling $18.9 billion in sales volume, including 72 grocery-anchored and multi-tenant shopping center transactions last year. The firm plans to grow its structured finance team deliberately over time and to expand its investment sales operation across the Mid-Atlantic. Berkeley has offices in Charlotte, Richmond, Nashville, Charleston and Washington, D.C., and serves clients throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic.
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