Element Commercial Real Estate
Minneapolis firm (founded 2015).1
Real Estate Industry Reviews Editorial Team Updated 2026-10-27 www.elementmn.com
Overview
Element Commercial Real Estate’s contact page lists 322 1st Ave N, Suite 200, Minneapolis, MN 55401. The home page says the firm was founded in 2015 by JoAnna Hicks and Kevin Kuppe. The site names development consulting, acquisitions and dispositions, tenant advisory, landlord representation, project management and asset management.
Two sourced criteria produce the 7.1 score: years in business at 8 points and weight 20 and public reviews at 6 points and weight 15. Evidence: Moderate. Criteria without a source stay out of the math.
Score breakdown
| State license | Not published |
| Professional directory | Not published |
| Verifiable transactions | Not published |
| Years in business | 8 |
| Public reviews | 6 |
| Overall score | 7.1 |
State license, weight 25, not scored. Not scored. No license number was read. The Minnesota real-estate licensing page did not return a number on 2026-10-27. The criterion is left out. A search form is not an active license. Minnesota real-estate licensing page (no license number retrieved, 2026-10-27)
Professional directory, weight 20, not scored. Not scored. No SIOR, CCIM or comparable listing of a named principal was read for this profile.
Verifiable transactions, weight 20, not scored. Not scored. No named transaction with a property and a size, price or date was read outside the firm’s own description. Self-reported totals are not scored.
Years in business, weight 20, 8 points. The home page says the firm was founded in 2015 by JoAnna Hicks and Kevin Kuppe. Age from 2015 to 2026 is 11 years, which is the 10 to 19 band (8 points). This is the firm’s own page, so it is not an independent source. Element Commercial Real Estate
Public reviews, weight 15, 6 points. Google Maps business listing, checked 2026-10-27: 4.2 (5, Google), 322 N 1st Ave Ste 200, Minneapolis, MN 55401. A count and an average were read on a third-party site. The rating 4.2 is the 3.8 to 4.2 band (6 points). 5 reviews would cap the criterion at 8, which does not lower this band. This input is 6 points. This is the same hand reading as the Minneapolis hub, scored once. Google Maps business listings (star ratings and review counts read by hand, 2026-10-27)
Math: 250 weighted points ÷ 35 (the weight of the sourced criteria) = 7.1 / 10. Evidence: Moderate. Criteria without a source are left out of the denominator. This is the boutique rubric, not the filing rubric used for the six national firms, and the two are not comparable. Bands · Evidence levels.
Each criterion is defined on our methodology page.
Orientation
Minneapolis firm (founded 2015). Services listed in the sources cited on this page: tenant rep, landlord rep, investment sales, development, property management.
Main competitors
The Minneapolis-St. Paul city page lists Element Commercial Real Estate with Avison Young (8.5 / 10), Commercial Equities Group (CEG) (No score published), and Kenwood Commercial (No score published).
Pricing
A fee schedule is not published in the sources cited on this page, and no pricing URL is published.
How to engage
| Official website | https://www.elementmn.com/ |
|---|---|
| Pricing URL | not published |
| Offices verified on the firm’s own site | Minneapolis-St. Paul: 322 1st Ave N, Suite 200, Minneapolis, MN 55401 (office page) |
| Services listed | tenant rep, landlord rep, investment sales, development, property management |
| Last verified | 2026-10-27 |
Competitors
Compared with
Compare Element Commercial Real Estate with
Suggestions are other commercial brokerages on this site: same city first, then overlapping sourced services, then a closer firm type. Each link opens the compare tool with both firms. Filing-rubric scores and boutique-rubric scores are not the same measurement.
Reviews
The Minneapolis-St. Paul office listing read on 2026-10-27 shows 4.2 from 5 Google reviews (Google Maps reading). That reading is the public-reviews input above.
No client quotes were read for this profile.
Fact file
| Item | What the source says | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Office | 322 1st Ave N, Suite 200, Minneapolis, MN 55401. | Element Commercial Real Estate contact page |
| Year | The home page says the firm was founded in 2015 by JoAnna Hicks and Kevin Kuppe. | Element Commercial Real Estate |
| Services named | Development consulting, acquisitions and dispositions, tenant advisory, landlord representation, project management and asset management. | Element Commercial Real Estate |
Methodology and sources
Method note and sources
This score uses the boutique public-evidence rubric: state license (25), professional directory (20), verifiable transactions (20), years in business (20) and public reviews (15). A number is published only when at least two criteria have a source and at least one of those sources is independent of the firm. With exactly two sourced criteria the score is capped at 9.0; a 10.0 needs at least three. Self-reported career totals and review claims we have not read are not inputs.
Sources
- Element Commercial Real Estate · accessed 2026-10-27
- Element Commercial Real Estate contact page · accessed 2026-10-27
- Google Maps business listings (star ratings and review counts read by hand, 2026-10-27) · accessed 2026-10-27
- Minnesota real-estate licensing page (no license number retrieved, 2026-10-27) · accessed 2026-10-27
Last verified 2026-10-27. Figures were re-read from the linked sources that day.
View changelog
- Boutique score recomputed. Public reviews follow the star rating and the review count. A published 10.0 needs at least three sourced criteria, and exactly two sourced criteria cap the score at 9.0. Published score 7.1 / 10, Evidence: Moderate. No new source was read.
- Home page says founded in 2015. Contact page lists 322 1st Ave N, Suite 200. Google listing checked 2026-10-27: 4.2 (5, Google). Boutique score uses the sourced criteria only. License, directory and named transactions stay out where they have no source. Published score 7.1 / 10, Evidence: Moderate.
- Profile published from the sources cited below.