Commercial real estate is a hugely important sector of the state’s economy. It plays a role in the places we work, the places we shop and — in the case of renters — the places we live.
The brokers who help buy and sell these properties are an unheralded and unsung part of our economic ecosystem.
The first ROI-NJ list of New Jersey’s Leading CRE Brokers attempts to recognize those who do this important work. We welcome you to scroll through the following page on ROI-NJ.com to learn a little more about the best of the best.
Jeff Babikian
Vice chairman
CBRE
Long established as one of the most active and highly respected brokers in the tri-state area, he has a diverse base, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to nonprofits to emerging growth startups.
David Bernhaut; Gary Gabriel; Brian Whitmer
Executive vice chairman; Vice chairman; Vice chairman
Cushman & Wakefield
Well-respected in the industry, all three are top players on the C&W Capital Markets team.
Peter Bronsnick
Managing principal
Cushman & Wakefield
Bronsnick leads all market activities and drives business performance for C&W. Prior to joining C&W in June 2022, he spent nearly a decade with SJP Properties, where he served as president of the New Jersey region.
Alan Cafiero
Senior managing director, investments
Marcus & Millichap
He specializes in selling net lease properties, retail shopping centers, office and industrial properties in New Jersey and the Northeast, and has closed over 450 transactions totaling over $1.6 billion of real estate.
Jackie Chesler
Vice chairman
Colliers
Provides investment sales and advisory expertise to institutional and private investors. She focuses on all major product types, including office, industrial, retail, residential/mixed-use and land.
Jason Crimmins
Principal
Blau & Berg
He has extensive experience in industrial site selection, supply chain & logistics and landlord and tenant representation — and has completed more than 30 million square feet of sales and lease transactions with a total value of over $600 million.
Jose Cruz
Senior managing director
JLL
A veteran of these lists for good reason. Cruz heads a team that runs investment sales — and no one in the state does it better year-in and year-out.
Stan Danzig; Jules Nissim
Vice chair; Vice chair
Cushman & Wakefield
Two of the top industrial brokers in the state, they have worked at C&W for decades. Among many accomplishments, Danzig was honored with NAIOP New Jersey’s “Industry Service Award” in 2018; Nissim has a combined transaction value in excess of $2 billion.
David DeMatteis
Executive Director
Cushman & Wakefield
DeMatteis has completed nearly 1,000 real estate transactions — the biggest may be the recently negotiated deal for Apprentice IO’s new headquarters in Jersey City, where the firm helped develop the Moderna vaccine for COVID-19.
Robert DiLeo
Co-founder & principal
NAI DiLeo-Bram & Co.
DiLeo, who remains active in transactions, has orchestrated and closed more than 300 transactions that total more than 5 million square feet.
Rob Donnelly Jr.; Brian DeCillis
Executive managing director; Managing director
Cushman & Wakefield
Experts in commercial leasing and sales. Donnelly has been involved in more than $1.9 billion of property sales, including corporate and investment properties. DeCillis has held leasing responsibilities for more than 10 million square feet of office space in over 50 buildings in Jersey City, Bergen County and Morris County.
Neil Goldstein; Chuck Lanyard
Principal; President
Goldstein Group
Top leaders of Paramus-based group. Goldstein, a co-founder of firm in 1986, serves a wide variety of commercial clients and is responsible for the company’s highly regarded retail vacancy survey. Lanyard heads “Team Paramus” — which has consummated over 75 transactions in the Paramus market over the past 15 years.
Marc Isdaner; Ian Richman
Senior managing director; Senior managing director
Colliers
Isdaner, who manages the Mount Laurel office, specializes in the leasing and sale/acquisition of commercial and industrial properties in southern New Jersey. Richman is adept at developing acquisition strategies and assisting with debt placement options for buyers that require financing, especially on industrial properties.
Rob Kossar
Vice chairman & co-head of JLL Northeast Industrial Region
JLL
Kossar is the market director for all JLL industrial business in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, serves on JLL’s brokerage and industrial executive committees — and remains an active broker, representing the firm’s most important clients.
Darren Lizzack; Randy Horning
Vice president; Vice president
NAI James E. Hanson
Founded in 2014, Team Lizzack-Horning is an expert brokerage team that specializes in health care, office and investment property transactions. Together, the team has successfully closed more than 70 deals over the past 24 months totaling more than $100 million.
Jodie Matthews
Executive vice president, brokerage
JLL
She has more than 25 years of experience providing expertise in multimarket transactions of all product types, strategic and portfolio planning, financial analysis, tenant procurement and lease negotiations. Also serves as co-lead for JLL’s Women’s Business Network in New Jersey.
Jordan Metz
Senior vice president
Bussel Realty
He has represented more than 1,000 owners, tenants and investors, providing them with expert guidance in buying, leasing and selling industrial warehouses in the port-proximate region of Central/North Jersey, completing an aggregate value of over $1 billion in closed deals
Curtis Nassau; Florian Suserman
Executive vice president; Executive vice president
RIPCO
Nassau’s track record of landlord representation spans downtown (with over a dozen deals in Englewood alone) to urban to highway retail. Suserman has more than two decades’ experience representing some of the biggest landlords and developers and the biggest-name tenants in the state.
Jeremy Neuer
Senior managing director
JLL
It was a major move in the industry when he joined JLL’s Capital Markets team in 2022. He is considered one of the top commercial real estate professionals in the state, focusing on office investment sales advisory transactions in New Jersey and the tri-state area.
Adam Petrillo
Executive managing director
Newmark
He spearheads the strategic direction of Newmark’s Industrial Advisory Practice — incorporating the group’s integrated services across supply chain, logistics, warehouse, distribution and manufacturing real estate and operations within firm’s broader industrial services platform.
Jason Pucci; Robert Holland; Peter Wisniewski
CEO; President; Executive vice president
The Kislak Co.
Pucci, Holland and Wisniewski are the top leaders in a family-founded firm that has had huge impact in the state for more than a century (including naming rights to the real estate school at Monmouth).
Ken Uranowitz; David Oropeza; Joseph Brecher
President; Executive managing director; Executive managing director
Gebroe-Hammer Associates
Under the guidance of the Uranowitz-Oropeza-Brecher team, the company has a sound, in-place strategy for next-phase property owner/investor needs, property marketing and closing deals.