Stephen Perkins
Senior Managing Director, Newmark
Washington, DC 20006
Phone (202) 331-7000
Property Types
Office
Markets
Washington, DC
Languages
English
Bio
Stephen E. Perkins, senior managing director, is an expert in the Washington DC regional office market with more than 35 years of commercial real estate expertise. He focuses on tenant representation as well as select agency leasing assignments and has completed several complex joint ventures and investment sales during his career.
Prior to joining Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, Mr. Perkins was a senior vice president at Jones Lang LaSalle from 2001 through 2013. In his previous role, Mr. Perkins was senior vice president with Transwestern Carey Winston and in 1999 was recognized as their top producer in the country.
From 1993 through 1997, Mr. Perkins was the managing director of Virginia Leasing for Faison & Associates, Inc., where he specialized in the leasing of over two million square feet of Class A office properties and handled the TIAA/CREF's Virginia portfolio of 1.1 million square feet. Prior to that, between 1986 and 1993, Mr. Perkins served as a principal for The Hunter Company, where he was responsible for building and running their Virginia office. He began his career in 1979 with Blake Construction where he was responsible for leasing their private portfolio in Washington DC.
Mr. Perkins has led lease negotiations for numerous corporate clients, including New York Life, US Sprint Communications, BAE Systems, United Airlines, and most recently Virginia Tech Foundation, totaling more than one million square feet. In addition, he has joint ventured or sold more than $1 billion of investment properties and land throughout his career.
Mr. Perkins received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Ohio Wesleyan University. He is a member of the Washington, DC Association of Realtors, The Real Estate Group and NAIOP. Mr. Perkins was named one of the top ten leasing producers in Northern Virginia by the Washington Board of Realtors from 1999 to 2006.
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