Madison Capital Group is a vertically integrated real estate investment and development firm with a primary focus on the Multifamily, Self-Storage and Boat and RV Storage sectors.
In the multifamily sector, we focus on the development of high-quality, suburban, garden-style apartment communities throughout the Southeast. In the Self-Storage and Boat and RV Storage sectors, we target value-add acquisitions as well as ground-up development opportunities on a national scale.
Ryan Hanks has 22+ years of real estate experience acquiring and developing apartment communities and storage facilities and has been involved in more than $9 billion in commercial real estate transactions. He started Madison Capital Group in 2009 with the purpose of creating a real estate venture that would seek opportunistic returns. He subsequently founded Go Store It in 2013—Madison’s wholly-owned self-storage operating company and is responsible for overseeing its investment and operating strategy. In recent years he has founded several additional firms, including Cameron Financial Holdings, LLC to invest in private businesses with a focus on financial services companies and Cameron Property Company, LLC to build a platform with a focus on the Retail and Industrial asset classes. He is also the founder of Benjamin Ryan Insurance, a captive insurance company with a focus on renters’, property and casualty insurance.
Ryan is a member of the Charlotte Apartment Association, Urban Land Institute, National Multi-Housing Council, and Self-Storage Association. Ryan attended Liberty University to study Business Administration. Mr. Hanks is 43 and has been married for 21 years to Erica. They have 3 children ages 20, 17, and 15.
Joe Teague has 20 years of experience in commercial real estate and related tax planning and business analysis. Joe has expertise in complicated finance structures as well as like-kind exchanges. As an attorney and business consultant, he has managed cumulative business transactions for companies in excess of $1 billion. Since leaving public accounting in 1998, Joe has worked at several premier law firms in the Charlotte area, working with real estate developers, high net worth family offices and private equity firms.
He is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association and the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants. Joe is a graduate of Lenoir-Rhyne University, where he played varsity baseball, and a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law. He has been a CPA for 25 years and a licensed attorney for 20 years. When not at work, Joe enjoys coaching Little League baseball and softball and spending time with his four children.
