Professional Profile 

Bert brings more than 25 years of commercial real estate experience in leasing, sales, and capital market transactions. He provides advisory services and agency marketing solutions to private, corporate and institutional owners/landlords throughout Northern Virginia for flex/office, warehouse distribution properties and land sites.

Bert’s background includes a unique understanding of land and the process whereby new development opportunities are identified.  Bert adds value with a firm understanding in all aspects of the land development and entitlement process   Specific strategies are created and implemented to execute an assignment for the site search and selection of land acquisition for build-to-suit development. Detailed marketing and leasing programs are created in a team approach and implemented for new speculative development or the ongoing leasing of existing multi building portfolios. .In addition, Bert provides facility evaluation to occupiers/users and implements a managed process to identify and acquire new industrial facilities or sites/land or efficiently manage the disposition of corporate surplus properties. Over the last 36 months, Bert was involved in completed transactions valued in excess of $1 billion.

Before joining Avison Young, Bert led Cassidy Turley’s Virginia industrial practice and was also a top producer with CBRE. Before his tenure at CBRE, Bert was a principal at Connecticut-based Cambridge Hanover LP, where he was responsible for acquiring existing assets and structuring industrial build-to-suits and joint ventures with private and institutional investors throughout the East Coast and United States.

Areas of Specialization

• Tenant and Landlord Representation of Industrial Properties
• Land Acquisition and Disposition with development and entitlement advisory services

Awards & Affilliations

• Top 5 broker nationally for Cassidy Turley in the industrial practice in 2011
• Top 100 broker nationally for Cassidy Turley in 2011 and 2012
• Greater Washington Commercial Association of Realtors (GWCAR)
• National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP)
• Appointment by Loudoun County Board of Supervisors to a seat on the Economic Development to act in an advisory capacity to the Board of Supervisors