Charles Tourtellotte
Founder & CEO, LaTerra Development
Charles Tourtellotte is Founder and CEO of LaTerra Development, a market leading, fully integrated real estate investment management and development company headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. LaTerra acquires, develops and asset manages properties for two distinct operating platforms: Residential and Self-Storage, on behalf of its domestic and global investors. LaTerra’s combined portfolio value at completion is currently estimated to exceed $3 billion and consists of more than 3,000 multifamily units and over 1,000,000 Square feet of self-storage properties located in US Sunbelt markets.
Mr. Tourtellotte has over 40 years of proven multifamily and commercial real estate experience. Today, he guides and oversees LaTerra’s growth and investment strategies and is actively involved in product development and product design. Mr. Tourtellotte’s experience includes presiding as manager of Western U.S. acquisitions for real estate investment manager Robert McNeill Corporation. He later served as Senior Vice President of fund manager Consolidated Capital, where together with his team acquired more than 12,000 multifamily units and 10,000,000 square feet of commercial and industrial properties in major markets throughout the U.S. Mr. Tourtellotte’s single family housing career began by acquiring and managing over 200 single family homes while attending the College of Business, University of Denver. He later formed and operated a single-family homebuilding company which developed and constructed residential communities in Southern California.
In January 2025 Mr. Tourtellotte was featured on the CNBC TV business show Money Movers. He has also been featured on the NBC Today Show, CNN/FN, in The New York Times and The Los Angeles Times. In 2024, Mr. Tourtellotte was honored by The Los Angeles Business Journal as one of the “Los Angeles 500 Most Influential People”. His additional experience includes having founded Metro Golf (MGLF), which he took public as a NASDAQ listed IPO.