Lincoln Property Company recently hired a seven-member occupier services team away from Savills.
Corey Davidson and David DiPietro are co-leaders for the team that’ll be spread out across Los Angeles, New York and Houston. The rest of the team are Joshua Meltzer, Liron Nelik, Doug Fine, Ian Zilla and Jen Fan.
The seven have executed over 2,500 transactions totaling more than 60 million square feet and $20 billion in transaction value, combined, in their careers, according to a release.
Meanwhile, Savills hired Christian Palmer, who will focus on occupier services and be based out of the company’s Orange County office. He joined from Colliers and previously held senior roles at WeWork and Cushman & Wakefield.
Here’s what else is shaking in Southern California’s commercial real estate world.
- Newport Beach-based KBS tapped Sondra Wenger to head capital markets. Wenger will lead KBS’ institutional capital-raising strategy. Wenger has helmed investment teams responsible for more than $17 billion in closed real estate transactions, according to a release. She previously held senior roles at CBRE Investment Management, CIM Group, General Electric, Equity Office Properties Trust and the predecessor to Prologis.
- William Hughes, who previously led Marcus & Millichap’s capital markets team and launched its debt platform, took a spot at Fidelity Bancorp Funding to accelerate its lending platform.
- Colliers hired Shane Shafer in its Orange County brokerage, where he’ll focus on multifamily investment sales. Shafer, who is moving from Northmarq, has two decades of experience and has closed more than $6 billion in multifamily transactions, according to a release.
- Eastdil Secured brought on Kevin Sheehan and Sean Gulian to co-lead the company’s national housing group for Southern California. Sheehan and Gulian will focus on housing investment sales. Sheehan, previously at JLL, will be based in Eastdil’s Santa Monica office, and Gulian, previously at Nuveen Real Estate, in the Newport Beach office. Sheehan has been involved in the sale of more than $4 billion in transaction volume, according to a release. Gulian has contributed to more than $25 billion in multifamily and mixed-use investment sales and recapitalizations, according to a release.
- Cresa hired Will Adams to lead the company’s Century City office. Adams previously held roles at Newmark, CBRE and Savills.
- Industrial veteran Paul Sablock returned to Colliers’ Los Angeles brokerage, and he brought his son Nick Sablock. The father-son duo, specializing in leasing and sales, are moving from JLL. Paul has been in the business for more than 45 years, most of them at Colliers, and has been involved in over 1,900 industrial transactions, according to a release.
- Kyle Kehner and Trevor Wright joined Colliers’ Inland Empire and Orange County brokerage. The two will offer industrial services, mostly in the Inland Empire. Wright is returning to Colliers after a stint at Stream Realty. He is focused on industrial development, tenant representation and sales. He has completed more than 100 transactions totaling $150 million in deal value, according to a release. Kehner was at Cushman & Wakefield and has more than 30 years of experience.
- Surmount made Kyle Gulock its first California hire, as part of its West Coast expansion effort. Gulock has closed over $1 billion in net lease transactions across nearly two decades in the commercial real estate industry, according to a news release. He co-founded Century Partners and has held roles at Pegasus Investments, Kidder Mathews and Charles Dunn Company.
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