CRE brokers
Franklin Street
Franklin Street is a privately held, full-service commercial real estate firm headquartered in Tampa, serving institutional and private clients nationally. It is organised into four lines of business: capital markets, agency leasing and occupier services, insurance services and risk management, and project and property management.
The Capital Markets division covers investment sales, acquisitions and dispositions, and capital advisory, including debt and equity placement and structured capital for institutions, private equity firms, and family offices. Insurance Services is staffed only by people who work in commercial real estate, split into four teams covering brokerage and placement, portfolio administration between renewals, acquisitions and lender compliance, and claims and risk management. Brokers work on Frankie, the firm's own web-based platform, launched in 2011 and updated around what brokers ask for.
The firm hit $1 billion in transaction volume in 2014, entered office and industrial in the same period, opened Charlotte in 2022 with a healthcare vertical and a national self-storage practice, acquired a national student housing team in 2024 alongside its tenth office in Cincinnati, acquired hospitality specialist Hodges Ward Elliott in 2025, and opened a Miami office in Coral Gables in 2026. Its locations list covers Tampa, Atlanta, Austin, Charlotte, Cincinnati, Dallas, Ft. Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Miami, Nashville, New York, and Orlando.
Asset coverage runs across multifamily, retail, office, industrial, land, healthcare, hospitality, self storage, and student housing, but not every team sits in every office, so ask which local team would actually cover your asset type in your market.
Best for
Owners of multifamily, retail, self-storage, or student housing in the Southeast and Texas who want investment sales, leasing, insurance, and management under one roof, and owners looking for an insurance broker that works only on commercial real estate.
What they do
- Investment sales
- Capital advisory and debt and equity placement
- Agency leasing
- Tenant representation and occupier services
- Insurance brokerage and placement for commercial real estate
- Insurance portfolio administration and claims advocacy
- Property management
- Project management
- Lease administration
- Self-storage and student housing investment sales
Details
| Attribute | Value |
|---|---|
| Ownership | Private |
| Other offices | Atlanta, GA, Austin, TX, Charlotte, NC, Cincinnati, OH, Dallas, TX, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Jacksonville, FL, Miami, FL, Nashville, TN, New York, NY, Orlando, FL |
What stands out
- Reached $1 billion in transaction volume in 2014.
- Opened its 10th office in Cincinnati in 2024, then Dallas in 2025 and Miami in 2026.
- Acquired Hodges Ward Elliott, a hospitality-focused CRE firm, in 2025.
- Added a national student housing team in 2024 and launched a national self-storage practice in 2022.
- Brokered the $12.19 million sale of a 92-unit multifamily community in Port Richey, Florida after a 45-day listing process.