Richard Berger

With more than 40 years' experience as an office properties, corporate solutions, and tenant representation specialist, my expertise lies in developing large-scale analytical feasibility studies and executing corporate and professional relocation services. With an extremely active office brokerage practice, in the past two years I’ve completed transactions totaling 2 million square feet with a value exceeding $200 million, allowing me to remain an industry leading producer.

I have also gained considerable expertise leading the transaction management services for corporate real estate occupiers on a regional or national basis. My clients include A.T. Kearney, the global consulting firm, where I oversee a one-million-square-foot portfolio, and NorthShore University HealthSystem, recently named one of the nation’s top 10 health systems, where I’ve completed more than 300 medical/office transactions totaling more than one million square feet.

I began my career with Hawthorn Realty Group in Chicago, but since, I have spent nearly my entire career with Colliers International. I joined the firm in 1980, and I am currently one of seven principals on the Chicago office’s Executive Committee, which is instrumental in shaping the firm’s strategic growth and client relationships.

• Three-time recipient of “Salesman of the Year,” Chicago Real Estate Board
• “Office Broker of the Year,” Chicago Sun-Times
• “Office Broker of the Year,” Greater Chicago Food Depository
• Published author on real estate-related topics
• Frequent speaker at many association conferences
• Former faculty member, Society of Industrial and Office Realtors
• Contributor, Strategies in Tenant Representation

• MBA, University of Chicago
• MA, University of Chicago

• Mentor, LINK Unlimited Scholars
• Regional Board Member, Anti-Defamation League
• COLBA
• Standard Club of Chicago

• Allstate
• American Brain Tumor Association
• A.T. Kearney
• BDO Seidman LLP
• Chillmark Partners
• Frankel & Co.
• Gaylord Container
• Hyatt Corporation
• Ingalls Health System
• Laner Muchin Dumbrow et al
• Loyola University Health System
• NorthShore University HealthSystem
• Northwestern University
• Surgical Care Affiliates
• Suzanne Lovell Inc.
• Thompson Ventulett Stainback & Associates
• Tisher & Wald