Transwestern

Transwestern is a privately held commercial real estate firm organised around three businesses: Services for investors, owners and occupiers; Development, which builds for the firm, its partners and its clients; and Investments, a real estate investment adviser working for institutional clients.

On the services side the firm handles agency leasing, tenant advisory and workplace solutions, property and facilities management, capital markets work covering investment sales and financing, project services, land brokerage and consulting. Specialty groups cover healthcare, laboratory and life sciences, industrial, technology properties, and sports and entertainment. A receivership practice takes court and lender appointments, drawing on the leasing, management and capital markets teams to hold value while an asset is in dispute.

Development projects in progress or delivered since 2012 exceed $9 billion across logistics, multifamily, healthcare, life sciences, mixed-use and office product. The Investments group reports more than $8 billion of real estate investments sourced and executed in 26 markets. The firm's awards page shows workplace recognitions from business journals in Houston, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, New Jersey, Orange County, San Antonio and Washington, giving a rough picture of where its offices sit.

Brokerage quality is local. Ask which team would run the assignment, what it has closed in that submarket and product type in the past year, and how the Services, Development and Investments arms are kept separate when the firm is both a principal and an adviser.