Movers: Dallas Builders Association Exec Takes National Gig

Partners Capital, the investment platform of Partners Real Estate, hired Jess Dickie as vice president of acquisitions in its Dallas office. Dickie will report to partner Adam Hawkins, with focus on Partners Capital Opportunity Fund for retail and industrial properties in North Texas. Dickie arrives from WRC Advisors, where he was director of acquisitions.

Phil Crone will end his tenure as executive officer of the Dallas Builders Association to take a national role, the Dallas Morning News reported. Crone has been named vice president of Leading Builders of America, a Washington, D.C.-based organization that advocates for home affordability, with some of the nation’s largest homebuilders among its members. It spent about $1 million on lobbying in 2022, according to Open Secrets.

A Dallas-based appraisal team led by John Jordan has left Colliers to join Apprise by Walker & Dunlop, the Dallas Business Journal reported. Apprise hired the seven-person team in preparation for a wall of maturities that is coming due in the commercial real estate sector in the next few years, the outlet reported. “We’re ensuring that we’re setting ourselves up for the transaction market as it’s going to be heavily reliant on financing from Fannie and Freddie, which is exactly what we’re seeing right now,” Meghan Czechowski, head of Apprise, told the outlet.

Lincoln Residential has hired Camilla Harris as its chief financial officer, the Dallas Business Journal reported. Harris previously served as chief accounting officer at Digital Realty. Lincoln Residential is based in Dallas. Toronto-based Cadillac Fairview took control of the company in March, ending its affiliation with Chicago-based Lincoln Property Company.

Residential real estate agent Genna Skolnik has left the Agency’s Damon Williamson Group to return to Compass. The luxury agent’s largest transactions include the May 2022 sale of a home in Far North Dallas that was listed at nearly $2.3 million.