2024 Commercial Real Estate Awards: Top Performing Broker of the Year
Kevin A. Shannon is widely considered to be one of the premier investment sales brokers in the United States. As the co-head of US Capital Markets for Newmark, along with Rob Griffifin, Doug Harmon and Adam Spies, Shannon leads a team of 33 professionals focused on arranging the disposition, financing, and joint ventures of investment properties on behalf of domestic and offshore investors throughout the Western United States.
Since 2010, Shannon has been involved in over $86 billion of office, industrial, self-storage, multifamily, land and mixed-use transactions. His experience includes structuring fee simple and partial interest sales, as well as recapitalizations and joint venture transactions.
Shannon has spent his career helping clients structure transactions to best meet their goals. Notably, he brokered many of the largest office sales in the Western United States.
Shannon joined Newmark Knight Frank after nearly nine years at CBRE, where he served as vice chairman and managing director for the West Coast Institutional Investment Group and leader of Western United States Office Vertical.
Prior to CBRE, Mr. Shannon served from 1999 to 2005 as a senior vice president with the Institution Investment Group of Grubb & Ellis, now a part of Newmark Knight Frank. He was that firm’s top-producing broker nationally (all business lines).
