Staff profile

Jerry Ramshaw

Jerry Ramshaw, B.S., Broker^® serves as president of Ramshaw Real Estate and managing director of Ramshaw/Sperry Van Ness, specializing in the sale of investment properties in Champaign-Urbana and Central Illinois. He has more than 25 years of commercial real estate industry experience and has been president of Ramshaw Real Estate since its founding in 1988. He has had extensive experience in all aspects of real estate brokerage, development, management and construction.

Among Jerry's notable accomplishments are the renovation and rehabilitation of the South First Manor Apartments (now Ashton Woods); development of Trade Centre South and Radisson Suites Hotel; restructuring and management overhaul of the Illini Plaza commercial complex on South Neil Street; development of Briar Cliff IV and Turnberry Ridge subdivisions; the Cobblefield Point 118-unit condominium community; and the Prestwick Point apartment community.

Jerry is a registered broker with the State of Illinois, a member if the National Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realty Property Management. He is on the board of the Champaign County Mental Health Center as president, and is a board member of the Economic Development Council.

Jerry earned a bachelor's degree in Urban Economics from the University of Illinois, where he was also a two-year varsity letter-winner for the Illini football team.