About
Professional Summary
Bringing 32 years of experience in commercial real estate, Marilynne joined Colliers in 2018 to provide financial analysis to the company’s leasing and investment sales teams for all types of assets, including the following types of financial analysis:
- lease renewal and relocation comparisons
- mid-term lease renegotiations (“blend and extend”)
- lease buyouts
- sublease disposition/recovery
- build-to-suit vs. design-build
- lease vs. buy
- own vs. sale/leaseback
- landlord net effective rate
- discounted cash flows
Prior to joining Colliers, she specialized in advising companies regarding their financial analysis for commercial real estate requirements or investments for 17 years. Marilynne also has a background in commercial mortgage underwriting/loan originations and commercial real estate appraisal.
Accomplishments
- Numerous recognitions by employers for being a “Team Player” and “Outstanding Volunteer”
- Board and committee membership with Houston’s commercial real estate organizations (CCIM, CREW and CoreNet Global)
Education
• Real Estate Sales Agent License, Texas
• Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Wake Forest University
CoreNet Global:
• Corporate Real Estate Finance
• Real Estate Transactions: Impact on Corporate Financial Statements
• Enterprise Alignment
• Portfolio Management
• Data Driven Performance Improvement
• MCR Capstone: Leadership & Strategy
CCIM Institute:
• Financial Analysis
• User Decision Analysis
• Investment Analysis
• Sale/Leaseback: User Perspective
• Sale/Leaseback: Investor Perspective
• Market Analysis and Advanced Market Analysis
• Taxation
• Commercial Real Estate Negotiations
• Energy Conference
• Commercial Real Estate Development Workshop
SIOR (Society of Industrial and Office Real Estate):
• Understanding the Lease Agreement
• The Construction Process
• Build-to-Suit Development Mortgage Bankers Association:
Mortgage Bankers Association:
• Advanced Commercial Real Estate Finance
Memberships & Involvements
- Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM)
- Commercial Real Estate Research Forum
- CREW Member
- Boy Scouts of America
- Junior League of Houston
- SBISD PTA Volunteer
Services
Skills
My Team
My Team
In his role at Colliers, Grant focuses on providing in-depth financial analysis to the company’s leasing and investment sales teams for all types of assets. He currently specializes in the following types of financial analysis:
- Lease renewal and relocation comparisons
- Lease buyouts
- Sublease disposition/recovery
- Build-to-suit to own or to lease
- Lease vs. buy
- Own vs. sale/leaseback
- Investor discounted cash flow analysis
- Multifamily Investment Analysis
Grant Perdue brings extensive experience to Colliers, having been in the commercial real estate industry since he graduated with a marketing and finance degree from the University of Nebraska in 2016. Prior to joining Colliers, Grant was in field research, specializing in market tracking, in-depth analysis, pitch support, and producing proprietary research reports for a variety of product types. Grant also has experience as a broker in the Healthcare commercial real estate sector, specializing in tenant advisory and representation.
Crissy is passionate about innovation and productivity in the workplace; constantly seeking a better way and helping others succeed are a couple of her daily drivers.
Crissy develops and expands marketing and technology platforms for the Houston office and contributes to the Southwest region.
She started as the marketing specialist at the front desk of a boutique commercial real estate firm in 2007, with her first assignment of building their website. From there learning commercial real estate and bringing the best marketing practices to the CRE realm has been her focus.
In 2010 that boutique firm merged with Colliers' Houston office where Crissy was promoted to marketing director, now chief marketing officer, and has been responsible for the organization's marketing efforts. Crissy designs and conducts in-house training programs to elevate staff knowledge and to enhance new business skills. She organizes and executes company events and recognition programs to support and promote a positive work culture. In January of 2020, she became a principal of the firm.
Some of Crissy's career highlights include being named Colliers U.S. Marketer of the Year, partaking in Fort Bend's Leadership Class program, being recognized as a local Top 40 Under 40, and taking home awards for Best Market Intelligence and Driving Business Efficiencies & Effectiveness.
Crissy earned the Commercial Property Marketing Certification (CPMC) from Colliers University. CPMC is the first and only accreditation for commercial real estate marketing professionals. It offers a professional development path to increase strategic and tactical expertise in marketing/research, knowledge of the industry, and capabilities with commercial real estate tools.
Caroline has been actively involved in the operations of Colliers for over twenty years. Originally hired by the company as a bookkeeper on a contract basis, she now serves as chief operating officer. Caroline also serves as Colliers Administrator and MCA Coordinator. Prior to joining Colliers, Caroline was employed by an independent investor, her duties focusing on accounting and taxes. In addition, she worked as a special project technical assistant with Aramco Services Company, the American subsidiary of the Saudi national oil company.
Pat is the managing director of brokerage services in Houston for Colliers. Pat has more than 37 years of experience in commercial real estate as a producing broker, educator, sales manager and managing broker. Pat relocated to Houston from Florida where he served as President of the Colliers offices in Tampa Bay, Orlando and Southwest Florida.
Pat started his career as Director of Marketing for a real estate data base company where he spent three years interviewing top brokerage houses throughout the United States and assisted in their automation needs as a consultant and instructor. As President of the Colliers Houston office, he has direct responsibility for recruiting, training and managing the sales and leasing teams, property management and business plan creation and coordination for the company.
Pat was responsible for building and organizing retail service delivery capabilities for Colliers worldwide as chairman of the Colliers Retail Specialty Group (96-2000, 2002-2013). Pat is also a founding member of the Colliers Oil and Gas practice group. Among his academic accomplishments, Pat wrote the capstone case study for the CCIM program's final course offering from 1986 - 1998. The case study combined the marketing and financial concepts taught by CCIM to allow the students to apply the material to a simulated commercial property disposition.
He has been an instructor for NACORE’s (now CORENET) Intermediate Finance Course and was awarded the Top-Rated Faculty Certificate in 2000. Pat has been quoted in national and regional publications including the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, Newsweek, Real Estate Forum, National Real Estate Investor, Globe Street and others. He has been an expert panelist for NAIOP, Real Share, ICSC and many other real estate organizations.
Pat has served as a member (and Chairman) of the Colliers Managers Steering committee, the Board of Directors for Colliers USA and is the past Chairman of the Colliers USA Board of Advisors. In 2003, Pat was awarded Colliers Manager of the Year. In 2004, he was chosen by Colliers as the Tom Richardson Award recipient, an honor based on strength of character. In 2012, Pat was chosen as the recipient of the Colliers USA Pinnacle Award for service excellence. Pat is the only person in Colliers to win all three of these awards. He served as an instructor for Colliers University 2010-14. In 2017 Pat was recognized as a “Best Boss” by Real Estate Forum magazine.