Uche Nchekwube

Uche Nchekwube is a real estate broker with 20 years of experience who has operated independently for the past 10 years from his office in San Jose, California. He specializes in residential properties, mixed-use buildings, business brokerage, restaurants, and auto repair shops throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, Sacramento, and Santa Cruz. Nchekwube holds an MBA in finance from Berdine University's Grazia Deal School of Business, a degree in English Literature from the University of Michigan Ann Arbor, and has taken classes at Yale and De Anza College. He earned the NCREA Certificate in Real Estate Investment Property Specializations (CREPS) and MC certification. Earlier in his career, Nchekwube worked on business development projects including a business plan for a museum that became the California African American Museum project and served as project coordinator for the first LEED-certified residential high-rise in San Francisco. He has volunteered with the West Breck non-profit, the Lush Life Art Gallery, and affordable housing initiatives. Nchekwube attributes his success to associating with the right causes and people, timing, collaborators, reading the room, focus, and avoiding short-sighted goals. He advises young professionals entering the industry to read everything, keep looking at property, keep moving, always be closing, and remain completely transparent to avoid liability.