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JACOB ZIMMERMAN

Jacob has been in real estate world over 20 years with experience in real estate marketing, brokerage operations, and consulting prior to joining Compass as an agent. He was the Founder of the largest hospitality real estate marketplace in the country and has previously marketed over 30,000 listings totaling over $12 billion throughout the United States supporting sellers and brokers. He also headed up marketing, operations, and growth for a commercial/business brokerage where he planned and executed the strategic expansion of a single broker office to a California-wide operation with over 1,300 completed transactions. Jacob started his career with the top international hospitality real estate consulting firm where he worked on over $3 billion of commercial real estate financing transactions for proposed and existing developments and led the preparation of a sales offering of a 9-figure luxury resort which successfully sold. Having had the experience in valuation, Jacob is highly adaptable and resourceful to provide clients valuation insight on the areas they are searching. Jacob brings his experience in real estate, valuation, marketing, digital expertise, hospitality and Bay Area market knowledge to provide his clients an optimal real estate buying and selling experience. 

Jacob is a Marin native, fourth-generation Bay Area resident and currently resides in the Peacock Gap area of San Rafael with his wife and two children who currently attend Glenwood Elementary. He is a partner in the Marin Suites Hotel in Corte Madera and has been a volunteer coach in the San Rafael Little League for four years. Growing up in Marin, he attended Brandeis Marin, Kent Middle School and Redwood High School and competed in Twin Cities Little League, Ross Valley Little League, and in USTA leagues with the Ross Valley Tennis Club (now Bay Club Ross Valley). Jacob is also an alumnus of the Marin Rowing Association where he served as the varsity captain, was on three consecutive state & regional championship boats, and was on back-to-back national championship competing teams that took gold and silver in consecutive years.

Jacob graduated from Cornell University SC Johnson College of Business from the School of Hotel Administration with a concentration in Real Estate Development. He was on the Dean’s List, served as the Director of Information of Technology for the Cornell Hotel Society Collegiate Chapter and is a Lifetime Member of the Cornell Hotel Society. Jacob attended Cal and UCSB for short stints prior to completing his education at Cornell.