ROI-NJ lists New Jersey’s Leading Commercial Real Estate Brokers

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.

Bob Donnelly
Executive vice chairman
Cushman & Wakefield

Hall of famer. Donnelly will receive the 2023 Charles Klatskin Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s NAIOP New Jersey Awards Gala in May.

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.

Kevin Dudley
Executive vice president
CBRE

He has become a go-to source for industrial, heading a team that did $2.3 billion in transactions in 2021. In 2022, he was promoted to EVP, becoming one of the youngest professionals to achieve this title in New Jersey.

Jeffrey Dunne
Vice chairman
CBRE

Dunne, who leads a 15-person team that focuses on investment sales and equity raises to capitalize projects in the tri-state area, has closed more than $35 billion in his career.

Jerry Fennelly
President
Fennelly Associates

President of a firm that has served the greater Princeton/Central Jersey area since its inception in 1986, providing solutions for companies while completing nearly $1 billion in aggregate transaction volume.

Chuck Fern
Executive vice chairman
Cushman & Wakefield

During a more than three-decade career specializing in industrial, Fern has leased and sold over $3 billion of sales and lease transactions.

Jeffrey Garibaldi
CEO
Garibaldi Group

Aside from being the lead broker on the leasing team for Bell Works in Holmdel, Garibaldi also is involved in both brokerage and consulting services and has been responsible for handling a variety of sale/lease transactions for major clients.

Joe Garibaldi; Tom Walsh
Managing director; Managing director
Walker & Dunlop

Veteran brokers — each with more than $10 billion in transactions over their careers — are strong players in Newark and elsewhere.

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.

Blake Goodman
Managing director
JLL

Provides tenant and landlord representation services for corporate and institutional clients, with a core focus on the office market sector. He also heads firm’s health care practice group.

Tim Greiner
Executive managing director
JLL

Greiner is considered one of the region’s most accomplished commercial real estate brokers, with more than 600 lease transactions covering over 15 million square feet.

Bill Hanson
President
NAI James E. Hanson

In three decades of his leadership, NAI James E. Hanson has helped firm revenues grow five-fold while the number of agents has tripled.

Matthew Harding; Sid Singer
CEO; Vice president
Levin Management Corp.

Two key leaders at Levin, which is well-known in the New Jersey marketplace as a driving force in shaping the brick-and-mortar retail landscape.

Jeffrey Heller
Principal
Avison Young New Jersey

He is a proven executive leader with years of brokerage experience. He has consummated hundreds of transactions with a net aggregate value of more than several billion dollars.

Leor Hemo
CEO
Vantage Real Estate Services

Leads full-service Cherry Hill-based commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firm that services South Jersey and greater Philadelphia area.

Jeff Hipschman
Senior managing director
CBRE

Hipschman oversees all service lines in northern and central New Jersey, as well as all industrial and logistics services throughout the Northeast. 

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.

Tara Keating
Vice president
Garibaldi Group

After being one of the leaders in leasing at Bell Works, she now leads the effort in Bell Works’ Chicagoland project.

Michael Klein; Jon Mikula
Senior managing director; Senior managing director
JLL

Key players inside JLL who are instrumental in the firm’s success. One insider described them this way: They are the top debt-and-equity guys in New Jersey.

David Knee
Vice chairman & co-head of Northeast Industrial Region
JLL

The brokerage lead for all JLL industrial business in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York, he also is practice leader for JLL’s third-party logistics vertical and vice chair of JLL National Industrial Council.

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.

Leslie Lanne
Vice chairman
JLL

She leads JLL’s Urban Infill practice, serves as the East Coast lead for JLL’s national industrial council and mentors women working within the JLL industrial platform across the U.S.

Mindy Lissner; Bill Waxman
Vice chair; Vice chair
Cushman & Wakefield

Lissner, Waxman and their team are two of the undisputed leaders in one of the biggest sectors in New Jersey — and around the region: e-commerce and last-mile delivery.

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.

Dan Loughlin
Vice chairman
JLL

Loughlin is an acknowledged expert in the pharmaceutical and biotech real estate sector and serves as a member of BioNJ, the life sciences advocacy that represents the industry in matters of public policy as well as the growth within New Jersey.

Jason Lynch
Principal
Lee & Associates

A founding principal of Lee & Associates, he has represented the interests of landlords, developers, lenders, investors and tenants in New Jersey and the tri-state area. He has participated in over $200 million of real estate transaction value.

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.

Jim McGuckin
Regional manager
Marcus & Millichap

The firm, founded in 1971, has grown to include an office in Saddle Brook and more than 80 throughout North America. McGuckin is the firm’s top person in the state.

Jon Meisel
Senior vice president
CBRE

Industry veteran who also has worked at all of the biggest firms, he has used his background in mechanical engineering to earn a reputation as one of the strongest data center experts in the state.

Andy Merin
Executive vice president
Cushman & Wakefield

Well respected by all, he heads the investment sales group of the firm’s East Rutherford office, where he consistently has been among the top brokers in the state and the country.

Scott Mertz
President
NAI Mertz

Known for his incredible work ethic, he has completed more than 1,550 transactions valued in excess of $2 billion in gross transaction value and more than 45 million square feet since joining the firm in 2001.

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

Fred Meyer
Executive vice president & director of brokerage & corporate services
NAI Mertz

How’s this for depth: He has completed real estate transactions in all 50 states as well as transactions throughout Canada and in Mexico.

Thomas Monahan
Vice chairman
CBRE

Along with three executive vice presidents and a best-in-class finance and marketing team, Monahan personally oversees all aspects of marketing, site selection, leasing and sale of marquee properties throughout the New Jersey metro area.

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.

Scott Perkins; Christopher Todd
Senior vice president; Vice president
NAI James E. Hanson

They are widely regarded as one of the best industrial real estate brokerage teams in New Jersey due to their exceptional track record and expertise in the industry.

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 Pierson
President
Pierson Commercial

Founded in 2011 in Marlboro, the firm has quickly become one of the top retail commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firms in Central Jersey — and then, the New Jersey/New York area, handling over 7 million square feet of space.

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).

Frank Recine
Executive managing director, brokerage
JLL

He brings strong background in transaction structures, lease negotiations and consulting services, and is highly valued as a tenant, landlord and corporate services representative throughout the U.S.

Joseph Sarno Jr.
Executive vice president
CBRE

He specializes in consulting and transaction services for corporate accounts, office occupier representation and strategic investor agency assignments.

David Simon
Chief operating officer
NAI DiLeo-Bram & Co.

Veteran of numerous top CRE firms, he brings history of keying growth, operational and financial performance along with the oversight of the office, industrial, retail, land and investment sales divisions.

David Simson
Vice chairman
Newmark

He oversees strategic planning, consulting and leasing advisory services at the firm while maintaining his position as one of the top brokers in the state. He has represented landlords in excess of 200 million square feet of prime office.

David Townes; Alana Friedman
Managing director; Vice president
JLL

Long considered one of the top retail teams in the state, it was big news when they made the move to JLL earlier this month. They will work out of firm’s Parsippany office.

Dean Tselepis
Managing director
Newmark

He specializes in retail and land transactions north of Interstate 195, where he has completed numerous transactions for Panera Bread, CityMD, Citibank and Shell and has sold large land parcels for both residential and commercial development.

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.

Russell Verducci; Eric Demmers
Vice president; Vice president
NAI James E. Hanson

Verducci and Demmers are focused on the industrial market with expertise in logistics and site selection, particularly in the refrigerated warehousing and ports-related sectors along the New Jersey Turnpike corridor.

Marta Villa; Samuel Bernhaut
Senior vice president; Senior vice president
CBRE

Pair has formed the top retail team at CBRE since Villa returned to the firm in February 2022.

Barry Waisbrod
Senior vice president
The Kislak Co.

He specializes in the sale of multifamily and other investment properties throughout New Jersey and the surrounding states — and is consistently one of Kislak’s leading producers.

Kevin Welsh
Executive managing director
Newmark

He is leading the expansion of the company’s tri-state capital markets platform and its transformation into a market leader.

Jason Wolf
Founder & managing principal
Wolf Commercial Real Estate

Soon after starting his own firm in 2012, Wolf established a brand that has become a leader in southern New Jersey and Philadelphia.

David Zimmel
President
Zimmel Associates

Heads well-known full-service firm that represents 5 million square feet of space in the state (as well as New York and Pennsylvania).