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Professional Summary
Elizabeth Young joined Colliers International as a member of the Office Services Group. She brings more than 11 years of experience to our team. Elizabeth’s experience is primarily in landlord representation. As a Client Services Coordinator, Elizabeth is responsible for creating and maintaining marketing materials for listings, market research, site tour coordination, tracking deals and client support.
Elizabeth’s real estate experience prior to Colliers was also focused on landlord representation leasing with some tenant representation as well as procuring new leasing assignments. She worked closely with a research team, marketing team and experienced executives and brokers to find new leasing opportunities and created specific marketing pieces and research compilations to aid in gaining new leasing assignments.
In addition to her real estate role, Elizabeth also served as an executive assistant to a senior broker and was also responsible for maintaining supplies and office equipment at the on-campus leasing office.
Through her previous positions, Elizabeth has gained valuable experience in office leasing. She has worked with teams to lease both small buildings as well as campuses with more than 1.5 million square feet. She has worked with both small, private owners and institutional owners giving her a broad understanding of how processes can vary among throughout the industry.
Elizabeth is experienced in Microsoft products, design products such as Adobe Creative Suite and is tech savvy and research minded. Her ability to remain calm while on a deadline and her positive attitude are just a few examples of how she supports clients both internally and externally.
Education
- Notary Public
- University of Phoenix
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Bill brings more than 30 years of diversified real estate and business background to his approach to representing building owners. With more than 1,000 lease transactions completed on behalf of owners in San Francisco and Houston, he employs versatile, innovative approaches to creating, managing, and executing programs that target client and tenant needs to meet and exceed desired results. Bill's primary focus is on office leasing and he has significant experience with industrial properties as well.
Bill’s approach to the business of commercial real estate ownership representation is that of a transaction-oriented and relationship-based self-starter. He employs an alert eye for identifying and executing pathways to capitalize on opportunities to reach goals by using effective sales/marketing, analytical, management, communication and interpersonal skills.
Bill earned his CCIM designation from the CCIM Institute. In his work for property owners, he has consistently outperformed market occupancy rates as exemplified by his work on behalf of Granite Properties, Inc. where he reached and maintained 99% occupancy on a five building multi-tenant office portfolio totaling ~ 1M SF.
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In his 30-year brokerage career, Ace Schlameus has developed direct experience in marketing, finance and transaction negotiation skills. Ace has consistently brought measurable economic value to client's investments. As the Senior Broker for a team that represents large portfolios, he has continued to be a top producer. In the past 15 years Ace has averaged more than 100 transactions annually for more than 30 million square feet of office space.
He has proven to be a creative leader that can achieve results in any market. His experience in multiple sectors of the real estate industry has given him a unique skill set to accomplish goals from an asset manager's perspective.
The successful execution of marketing campaigns have been a hallmark of Ace's career.
Jenny Seckinger joined Colliers in 2008 and has more than 16 years’ experience in the real estate industry.
During her career, she has successfully leased, sold and acquired significant Class A assets for private equity, individual and institutional clients. Projects have included all sectors of the real estate industry including retail, medical, office, land and development. Jenny has been a senior member of various teams in the development of major high profile marketing campaigns and was personally responsible for working closely with owners to maintain asset values during the 2020 pandemic resulting in the successful sale of a diversified portfolio of retail asset at full stabilized capital rate value.
Jenny has continuously demonstrated that she can achieve positive results in any market. Her ambition, dedication and goal achieving attitude ensure the client’s goals are secured.
Blake represents the interests of office building owners and users in a strategic and effective manner. A Houston native with more than 10 years of experience in commercial real estate, he has developed direct expertise in marketing, research, finance and transaction negotiation skills. Blake’s extensive transaction history represents more than $300 million in volume totaling 450 transactions. He has consistently averaged more than 60 transactions a year totaling 2 million square feet.
Blake’s comprehensive approach focuses solely on his client’s goals. His clients often cite his diligent approach to projects both large and small. Through thorough financial and strategic marketing plans, Blake delivers proven results to his clients both on a local and national level. Blake’s clients say his urgency, result-driven focus and timely response have brought measurable economic value to their office properties.
Blake has been recognized by REDNews as a “Rising Star” in 2012. He has earned both the SIOR and CCIM designations. Prior to joining Colliers, Blake was with Caldwell Companies where he was a consistent top producer and achieved the largest closed transaction in 2018. He is the former Houston President of the Aggie Real Estate Network, and is an active member of SIOR, NAIOP, CCIM, Pi Kappa Phi Housing Corporation, and Houston's First Baptist Church.
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