About
Professional Summary
Zack Taylor joined Colliers in March 2021 as Senior Vice President. Zack specializes in the sale and leasing of industrial real estate with a particular focus in southeast Houston and other markets along the Gulf Coast. He has experience working with local, national, and international clients on their various real estate needs including site selection, tenant representation, building acquisitions/dispositions and build-to-suit projects. Zack’s analytical approach to real estate allows him to successfully evaluate and execute a broad range of complex transactions.
Zack has nine years of experience in commercial real estate acting as a trusted advisor. Zack has worked with industrial users, developers, and investors on a variety of transactions totaling more than 3 million square feet of lease/sale transactions and hundreds of acres of land totaling more than $200 million in transaction volume.
Zack is a native Houstonian and enjoys spending time in the outdoors with his wife, Alexandra, and two boys, Owen and Benjamin.
Accomplishments
- Colliers' Titan Award (2022)
Education
- Real Estate Sales Agent's License, Texas
- BBA in International Finance and Accounting, Stephen F. Austin State University
Memberships & Involvements
- NAIOP Developing Leaders Association
- Rice Design Alliance
- Strake Jesuit Alumni Association
- Houston Food Bank
- Keep Houston Beautiful
Services
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My Team
My Team
John specializes in industrial representation for logistics companies, manufacturing and corporate user’s of space. He works with his clients to execute cost reduction strategies, multi-market transactions, site selection, build to suit projects, disposition of surplus property and overall portfolio management.
John has negotiated more than 800 transactions in his career totaling over One Billion dollars in transaction value. Responsible for assuring the client’s interests are represented, John has saved his clients an estimated 20% - 25% in total occupancy cost, as well as mitigating the client’s risk and exposure throughout each transaction.
Before joining Colliers John was President of Douglas Development Partners.
John also served as the Executive Managing Director of Cushman & Wakefield and Senior Vice President at Transwestern during the course of his career.
Prior to the commencement of his commercial real estate career, John was a second round draft pick in the Major League Draft by the Colorado Rockies.
Kathy has more than 15 years commercial real estate business development experience. Kathy specializes in marketing, research and client services. Her area of expertise includes developing and maintaining a staged marketing program for listing assignments, listing pitches, proposals and agreements, tenant/buyer site tour coordination, market research, online database maintenance and tracking deals and client support. Kathy produces high quality property marketing materials, proposals, financial analysis for investment properties and provides contract/lease administration. She is knowledgeable in the use of real estate software programs and websites and is instrumental in the maintenance and advertising of property listings.
Prior to joining Colliers, Kathy had more than 18 years of professional administrative experience specializing in transactional real estate law and office management.
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.