VOIT REAL ESTATE SERVICES EXPANDS ITS SAN DIEGO OPERATIONS WITH NEW TEAM OF BROKERS
Voit hires five top-producing San Diego area brokers.
Voit’s growth projections for San Diego are on track, according to managing director Chris Wood.
San Diego, CA – April 23, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — Voit Real Estate Services has added five top-producing brokers to its San Diego office, including specialists in industrial, office, multifamily and healthcare properties. This diverse team of highly experienced brokers includes, Brandon Keith, Robert Vallera, Jeffery Chasan, Stephen Dok, and Mathew Kennedy, according to Chris Wood, Managing Director of Voit’s San Diego office.
“Voit’s depth of expertise and reputation in San Diego is rising,” said Wood. “We started with some of the best brokers in San Diego, and now we are attracting more top industry talent, which further solidifies our strength in the market.”
Wood noted that since joining Voit in 2010, his focus has been to drive the company’s growth in the quality of the services provided to Voit’s diversified client base.
“Over the past two years, Voit’s San Diego office has increased its property management division, expanded our reach by taking on new industrial, office and retail asset and property management assignments in the region, and grown the size and quality of our team.”
Voit is actively recruiting top industry professionals, according to Wood, who says the firm intends to nearly double the size of its San Diego brokerage over the next two to three years.
“What brokers need is an environment in which they have all the tools to succeed, while also enjoying the freedom to build their own networks,” explained Wood. “This is exactly the environment Voit provides – an entrepreneurial atmosphere with a strong, full-service platform and a wide variety of industry resources.”
In addition, Wood noted, “While our competitors are cutting back, Voit continues to invest in our people and our platform. This cannot be better evidenced than by our planned relocation and expansion to new facilities later this year.”
Brandon Keith joins Voit as a Senior Vice President, specializing in industrial and office markets. Keith brings more than 18 years of experience in the commercial real estate industry to Voit, and has completed more than $550 million in sales and lease transactions.
Prior to joining Voit, Keith founded SD Commercial Reality Advisers, Inc. where he served as President and Managing Broker. He grew the company to one of San Diego’s top ten commercial brokerages, which later merged with Grubb & Ellis in March 2010.
“As a former founder of a brokerage firm in San Diego, I understand the challenges a commercial real estate firm faces in order to continuously navigate market cycles,” said Keith. “Voit has proven itself as an industry leader, while simultaneously retaining its hands-on, entrepreneurial feel. I look forward to being a part of the firm’s ongoing growth and success.”
Robert Vallera, CCIM, joins Voit as a Senior Vice President specializing in multifamily properties. Throughout his career, Vallera has completed more than 250 apartment transactions in San Diego. He was a Founding Principal of SD Commercial Reality Advisers, Inc., where he helped to build a 20-agent brokerage team that later became a core team at Grubb & Ellis. In 2011, Vallera was named a top producing broker at Grubb & Ellis, and was ranked as the company’s second-best apartment broker nationwide.
Jeffrey Chasan, SIOR, has been hired as a Senior Vice President in Voit’s San Diego office. Prior to joining Voit, Chasan served as a Senior Vice President at Grubb & Ellis, where he was recognized as a top producer in both 2010 and 2011. Chasan is widely recognized as one of the top tenant representation brokers in San Diego. He served as a Principal at SD Commercial Reality Advisers, Inc. and was recognized as a top producer for that firm from 2007 to 2010. He has specialized in tenant representation in the office market for both sales and leasing throughout Southern California since 1987.
Chasan graduated with a degree in business from USC, and later earned his MBA from Pepperdine University.
Stephen Dok joins Voit’s San Diego team as a Vice President, specializing in healthcare and office properties. Dok also joins Voit from Grubb & Ellis after the SD Commercial Reality Advisers, Inc.’s team was absorbed into the Grubb & Ellis company. During his time with SD Commercial Reality Advisers, Dok specialized in the medical office market and was a top producer from 2007 to 2009.
Mathew Kennedy joins Voit as an Associate, partnering with Robert Vallera, specializing in multifamily properties. Prior to joining Voit, Kennedy served as an apartment research associate at Grubb & Ellis, where he was responsible for managing the company’s owner outreach program and producing quarterly multi-housing trend reports. Kennedy earned his Bachelor of Science in Economics from Arizona State University.
About Voit Real Estate Services
Voit Real Estate Services is now a 10 office commercial real estate firm that, through its brokerage and asset services professionals working together, provides strategic property solutions tailored to clients’ needs. Combining 40 years of expertise in brokerage, investment advisory, financial analysis, market research, asset management, tenant advisory and property management services, Voit provides clients with forward looking strategies that create value for their assets and portfolios.
Voit is a privately held, debt-free firm that has successfully navigated numerous market cycles since 1971 and currently employs more than 250 people. Voit has owned, developed and managed over 50 million square feet of commercial real estate, participated in $1.4 billion of construction projects and completed over $36 billion in brokerage transaction volume. Further information is available at www.voitco.com.
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