About
Professional Summary
Gregg Riva is a senior vice president in Colliers International’s Bellevue, WA office. He joined the firm in 1991. Mr. Riva focuses on the Eastside/Northend commercial real estate market and specializes in providing real estate services for both tenants and landlords in the King and South Snohomish County markets.
Mr. Riva offers clients a multitude of skills, including a wealth of experience in office and industrial transactions from both the owner and tenant’s perspective. This combination of tenant and landlord representation experience allows him to expertly negotiate in all types of real estate transactions. His success on behalf of clients has earned him top producer honors from Colliers in the Puget Sound Region for more than two decades.
Accomplishments
In the Pacific Northwest, Mr. Riva has provided landlord and tenant advisory services to a wide variety of local and national companies and corporations. He has been involved in over 600 real estate transactions over the past 16 years, including leases totaling more than 5.1 million square feet of space and sales valued in excess of $260 million.
His notable tenant relationships include:
- BioControl
- Bunzl
- Crown Castle
- Fluke Electronics
- GE
- Goodrich Aerospace
- Honeywell
- Lockheed Martin
- MAASCO
- Premier
- Raytheon
- Seattle Times
- Work Force Development
Owners he has represented include:
- AEW
- Arden Realty
- Benaroya Co.
- Bentall Kennedy
- Colony Realty Partners
- DCT Industrial
- Equity Office Properties
- FDIC
- Grosvenor
- HARSCH
- Hines
- HRP Properties
- MIG Real Estate
- Panattoni
- Spear Street Capital
- Washington Capital
- Washington Federal
- Washington Holdings
Education
Mr. Riva earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from the University of Washington.
Memberships & Involvements
Mr. Riva served on the Board of Directors for the Bellevue Boys and Girls Club for six years and coached football in the Junior Wolverine program for seven years.
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Derek Heed, a Senior Vice President with Colliers International Bellevue, WA office is committed to representing owner/users tenants and landlords in the South Snohomish and North King Counties. With 20+ years at Colliers International, Heed has earned a solid reputation in the brokerage community.
As a leading broker in the Northend/Eastside market, Heed has earned a reputation for helping tenants find quality real estate solutions that meet their budget needs and enable long term growth. While representing landlords, he was able to attain majority occupancy within the scheduled time frame by reaching out to the tenant market and targeting the building to the most appropriate companies. The combination of both tenant and landlord representation experience allows him to use his knowledge and expertise as leverage when negotiating on behalf of his client. Heed has been a consistent “Top Ten Producer,” from 1995 to the present. In 2011, Derek completed a company record of 50 transactions in one year.