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Professional Summary
Julian Zuniga joined the South Florida offices of Colliers International in 2016. He serves as the lead financial analyst for the investment sales team, focusing on the underwriting and analysis of development site and multifamily acquisitions / dispositions throughout the South Florida Market.
As a proficient and entrepreneurial driven analyst, Julian is a key contributor to the investment sales team providing high-level, in-depth market data analytics and valuation metrics to all the team’s assignments. Julian strives to provide industry leading and accurate data sources and valuation models, which will lead to optimal results for the client in all types of traditional and complex transactions.
Over the past 6 years, he has demonstrated success working on the underwriting and deal execution in non-traditional niches including condominium buyouts, income producing covered-land plays, and short-term rental home revenue sharing business models.
In his young career, Julian has built a proven track record having worked on and executed over $500 million worth of development site and multifamily assignments in South Florida.
Julian has been in the real estate business most of his life, working with his father’s development company from a young age. He obtained his real estate license in 2013 and has also focused on the commercial real estate sector. He received a bachelor’s in business administration from Florida International University in 2015 and shortly thereafter received his master’s in international real estate (MSIRE) in 2016 from the nationally ranked Hollo School of Real Estate at Florida International University. Julian began his career at Colliers as an intern and quickly grew within the company as an analyst and associate broker.
Julian was born in Barranquilla, Colombia and has been living in the United States for the past 20 years. Being fluent in both Spanish and English has allowed him to work seamlessly and create strong relationships with investors and developers from Latin America looking to acquire / dispose assets in domestic and foreign markets.
Education
- Masters of Science in International Real Estate, Florida International University
- Bachelor of Business Administration with concentration in Management, Florida International University
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Gerard Yetming joined Colliers in 2016. His team focuses on investment sales of all product types in urban South Florida neighborhoods.
A dynamic and dependable commercial real estate broker with over 15 years of commercial experience, he has demonstrated success pioneering new, emerging brokerage practices in complex, non-traditional niches - including condominium conversions in the early 2000s and urban land in the early 2010s.
He has a proven track record for successfully executing capital market transactions, having been involved in more than $8 billion of assignments including some of the largest and most complex transactions in South Florida. His recent focus on urban land assignments has resulted in $1 billion of transactions over the past since 2012.
Melissa works with brokers in the Miami office to create high-quality marketing pieces, proposals and presentations for properties throughout South Florida. She is responsible for the day-to-day production of property marketing, flyers, advertising, market research and lease transaction coordination. Additionally, she specializes in layout design and creating detailed maps and graphics using software such as Indesign and Illustrator.
She began her career as a copy editor and front page designer at Scripps Treasure Coast Newspapers and worked there for more than nine years.
Prior to joining Colliers, she was the communications specialist at United HomeCare, a nonprofit organization that provides services to seniors to help them remain at home. Along with office communications, she provided graphic design services for the nonprofit. Her previous background also includes a position as marketing coordinator at Transwestern, providing services to more than 10 brokers in their Miami office. Prior to this role, she served as a proposal coordinator for The GEO Group in Boca Raton, a leading provider of correctional, detention and community reentry services.