Will Bradley (left) and Mark Williford.
A major player in commercial real estate is continuing to build out its local roster.
Newmark, a national firm that entered the Richmond market about six months ago, has hired local brokers Will Bradley and Mark Williford to lead its capital markets division for Central and Southern Virginia.
Bradley and Williford had been with Colliers International, and they follow Garrison Gore, Victoria Pickett and Charles Wentworth, who left Colliers to launch Newmark’s Richmond office last December.
Based in New York, Newmark is a publicly traded brokerage with nearly 200 offices worldwide. Allison DiGiovanni, Newmark’s executive vice president for the mid-Atlantic, said the firm is “aggressively pursuing” talent to take advantage of opportunities it sees in the Richmond and Central Virginia markets.
For Bradley and Williford, who’ve been in the commercial real estate industry for 15 and 11 years, respectively, making the jump to Newmark was an opportunity to join a company that’s looking to grow in the region.
“Being relatively young in the industry, it was definitely exciting to come in and be the first movers and build something with arguably the most reputable brand in commercial real estate right now,” Williford said. “Relative to a lot of the other firms, (Newmark has) heavily invested in their capital markets platform.”
Williford and Bradley are executive managing directors of Newmark’s local capital markets division, meaning they’ll deal primarily in investment sales of industrial, retail and office properties, instead of owner-occupant sales or leasing. To work in capital markets in the Richmond region in recent years has meant dealing with plenty of new-to-market investors.
“Richmond is on a lot of people’s radar with the trends that are happening in the market today,” Bradley said. “We’re dealing with equity from across the country that’s looking to acquire an asset or portfolio in Richmond because of the strong investment trends that are going on.”
Bradley started as an analyst at CBRE and worked his way up to a senior vice president over 11 years. He joined Colliers in 2018 amid an industry shakeup that saw the entire group of then-CBRE brokers make a deal to go over to Colliers. Since 2019 he and Williford have worked in tandem.
“Our partnership is very strong and we complement each other,” Bradley said.
Now with a local headcount of five, it’s unclear what Newmark’s plans are for a Richmond office of its own, as company spokespeople declined to disclose whether it’ll pursue a physical location in the region.
Will Bradley (left) and Mark Williford.
A major player in commercial real estate is continuing to build out its local roster.
Newmark, a national firm that entered the Richmond market about six months ago, has hired local brokers Will Bradley and Mark Williford to lead its capital markets division for Central and Southern Virginia.
Bradley and Williford had been with Colliers International, and they follow Garrison Gore, Victoria Pickett and Charles Wentworth, who left Colliers to launch Newmark’s Richmond office last December.
Based in New York, Newmark is a publicly traded brokerage with nearly 200 offices worldwide. Allison DiGiovanni, Newmark’s executive vice president for the mid-Atlantic, said the firm is “aggressively pursuing” talent to take advantage of opportunities it sees in the Richmond and Central Virginia markets.
For Bradley and Williford, who’ve been in the commercial real estate industry for 15 and 11 years, respectively, making the jump to Newmark was an opportunity to join a company that’s looking to grow in the region.
“Being relatively young in the industry, it was definitely exciting to come in and be the first movers and build something with arguably the most reputable brand in commercial real estate right now,” Williford said. “Relative to a lot of the other firms, (Newmark has) heavily invested in their capital markets platform.”
Williford and Bradley are executive managing directors of Newmark’s local capital markets division, meaning they’ll deal primarily in investment sales of industrial, retail and office properties, instead of owner-occupant sales or leasing. To work in capital markets in the Richmond region in recent years has meant dealing with plenty of new-to-market investors.
“Richmond is on a lot of people’s radar with the trends that are happening in the market today,” Bradley said. “We’re dealing with equity from across the country that’s looking to acquire an asset or portfolio in Richmond because of the strong investment trends that are going on.”
Bradley started as an analyst at CBRE and worked his way up to a senior vice president over 11 years. He joined Colliers in 2018 amid an industry shakeup that saw the entire group of then-CBRE brokers make a deal to go over to Colliers. Since 2019 he and Williford have worked in tandem.
“Our partnership is very strong and we complement each other,” Bradley said.
Now with a local headcount of five, it’s unclear what Newmark’s plans are for a Richmond office of its own, as company spokespeople declined to disclose whether it’ll pursue a physical location in the region.
Will Bradley has been a star for the Marchetti-led brokerage team for a long long time. This move comes as a complete surprise to me. Newmark has put together a good investment brokerage team including their MF sales group.