Our Story
Gleicher Realty was founded more than fifty years ago by Royal Robert Gleicher — Roy to anyone who knew him — on a simple, durable idea: that real estate done right is built on honesty, knowledge, and the patient work of helping clients grow.
Roy spent his career proving it. Over five decades he led millions of dollars in transactions, developed several million square feet of industrial and office space, and built more than 500 apartments and single-family homes across Los Angeles, Orange, and San Bernardino counties. He did it the old way — by knowing his market block by block, keeping his word, and treating every client relationship as a long one.
Several years after Roy's passing, his grandson Adam picked up the mantle. Adam grew up at Roy's side, absorbing the craft early and carrying it forward through his own path — development, investment, entrepreneurship, and a global perspective shaped by years working and living abroad.
Today, Gleicher Realty continues on the same three foundations Roy laid down — honesty, knowledge, and the patient building of success — with one more added by Adam: that every deal we take on is, in some real way, an extension of who we are. Our clients' goals become our goals. Their buildings become problems worth losing sleep over. Their wins become ours.
It's a small practice, and intentionally so. Fifty years in, that still feels like the right way to do it.
Adam Gleicher
PRINCIPAL
Adam Gleicher — Principal, Gleicher Realty
Adam Gleicher has spent more than two decades building, buying, repositioning, and quietly obsessing over commercial real estate in Los Angeles and beyond. Gleicher Realty is his personal practice — the home for his repositioning work, the family-owned properties he helps steward, and the running notebook of how he thinks about cities, streets, and the businesses that fill them. For active brokerage and transactions, Adam works as a Partner at Creation, where he leads client engagements and listings.
Real estate found Adam early. As a kid, he tagged along with his grandfather — learning to read a building, listen to a tenant, and understand that almost everything in this business comes down to relationships you've earned over time. That apprenticeship still shows up in how he works: patient, curious, deeply local.
His path since has been anything but linear, which is the point. In 2006 he joined GBB Development in Boulder, Colorado as Director of Development, helping lead acquisitions, development, and asset management across a $75 million portfolio stretching across the Western United States. In 2008 he started Soleful Traveler, LLC, an unlikely venture that put Crocs retail stores into international airports — including the launch of Crocs at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. He came back to Los Angeles to join The Robin Group in Century City, where he sharpened his eye on commercial retail across Downtown LA and the Westside, working with owners, operators, and tenants of every shape.
In 2013, Adam founded Gleicher Realty — a boutique practice built on the idea that real estate, done right, is a craft. Through that platform he has led transactions representing more than $300 million in aggregate deal value, with a particular love for retail repositioning, mixed-use, and the kinds of owner-operated assets that have a story worth telling. He's also actively involved in the ownership and management of family investments across industrial, flex, automotive, and retail properties — which means he negotiates as someone who has signed the leases, paid the property taxes, and fixed the leak at 9pm on a Sunday. That perspective travels with him into every deal he touches.
Outside the four walls of real estate, Adam is a restless entrepreneur. He's invested in and operated ventures across retail, hospitality, food and beverage, and technology, and he's the founder of Hello My Beautiful World, a publishing platform built around storytelling, creativity, and the kind of human connection that doesn't fit on a spreadsheet. From 2018 to 2021 he, his wife Torie, and their sons Aden and Abe traded LA for a stretch — a brief season in Singapore's River Valley and a longer one in Amsterdam's Oud Zuid — which left him with a much wider sense of how cities work and how people live in them.
Adam is a proud supporter of the SLK Foundation and Yad Ezra V'Shulamit. He's a devoted husband and father, an unrepentant traveler, and the kind of broker who would rather walk a corridor with you than send you a deck about it.
Only good things...