Profile: Brent Gleesen of newcondosonline.com
One of San Diego’s own, is making headlines this week. An interesting profile of ex-Navy SEAL Brent Gleesen:
Brent Gleesen served four years as a Navy SEAL and participated in more than 100 combat missions in Iraq and Africa. After being honorably discharged, he went to graduate school at the University of San Diego, where he received a master’s in real estate. Gleesen, 29, met his business partner, 25-year-old Brandon Fishman, while in the master’s program and together they created NewCondosOnline.com. Their Web site is meant to be a convenient place for home buyers to find new condos as well as an advertising forum for developers. Just before graduating in June 2005, they launched their Web site and have since signed on nearly 300 projects nationwide, including about 80 projects in San Diego. When you came up with the idea to create NewCondosOnline.com, why only condos? There are some other real estate Web sites out there, but most of them focus on single-family homes and don’t really focus on attached housing. That’s where we saw the niche. Who are your competitors? The competitors really are these other real estate Web sites that focus on single-family homes, master plan communities. There’s nothing out there that really focuses just - more available