Commercial and Industrial Real Estate Brokers in Florida

What a commercial real estate broker actually does

A broker’s real job is to know what a property is worth to the specific people who might want it, and to run a process that makes those people compete. Everything else — the marketing, the tour schedule, the paperwork — is in service of that.

The part owners underestimate is the advice that comes before any of it: whether to sell at all, whether a lease renewal is worth more than a sale, and what the building is actually worth today rather than what a comparable traded for eighteen months ago.

Selling a warehouse or industrial property

Owners rarely start by deciding to sell. They start by asking what the building is worth, and the answer determines everything after it. We underwrite the asset the way a buyer will and hand you the range with the model behind it, so the price is yours and it is defensible.

If you want the mechanics laid out before speaking to anyone, the step-by-step guide to selling a warehouse in Florida walks through valuation, preparation, marketing and closing. If the question is still just the number, start with a free property valuation. When you are ready to run a process, that is seller advisory.

Buying and investing

Buyers lose more money to the wrong building than to the wrong price. Clear height, power, truck court depth, zoning and coverage decide what a property can do for the next tenant, and those are the things that are hardest to change and easiest to miss.

We represent buyers on acquisitions and investors on industrial and net-lease assets. See buyer representation if you are acquiring for your own operation, or investment sales if you are deploying capital. Where a sale is funding the next purchase, a 1031 exchange runs on a clock that starts at closing, so it wants planning before you list, not after.

Leasing, from either side of the table

We represent owners leasing space and occupiers looking for it — never both in the same transaction. Which side we are on is stated at the outset and does not move.

For owners, that is landlord advisory: positioning, rent benchmarking, and a leasing campaign aimed at the tenants actually in the market. For occupiers, tenant representation covers the search, the comparison and the negotiation, including the terms that cost real money three years in.

Outdoor storage, truck yards and industrial land

Not every industrial requirement is a building. Contractors, carriers and fleet operators need secured ground, and Florida zones very little new outdoor storage while existing yards keep converting to warehouses. It is the tightest segment in the state and the least well served.

We broker industrial outdoor storage statewide and semi truck and trailer parking for fleets that need secured space tonight rather than in eighteen months. We also transact the industrial land underneath both.

Institutional investor representation

Institutional investors give us their buy box. We find Florida industrial properties that fit it, including buildings that are not for sale, approach the owners directly and deliver underwriting in the investor’s own format.

Market research, published every quarter

We publish quarterly industrial briefs on Florida metros — vacancy, absorption, rents, construction and sale comparables, with our own read on what the numbers mean rather than a recitation of them. They are free, they are not gated behind a call, and they are the same research we use to price our own clients’ assets.

Read the current Florida market briefs, or see where we work across the state.