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"How new leadership and AI are shaping the future of Boise commercial real estate" Why commercial real estate firms are investing in leadership - and what it could mean for Boise commercial real estate. Commercial real estate isn't just changing because of new buildings. It's also changing because companies are investing in new leaders, artificial intelligence, forecasting tools, and specialized expertise. Those hiring decisions often reveal where the industry believes future opportunities are heading. According to reporting by Joshua S. Andino in CoStar News, several of the nation's largest commercial real estate firms recently announced executive appointments and leadership promotions spanning capital markets, office leasing, industrial real estate, forecasting, marketing, and artificial intelligence. You can read the original CoStar News article here: https://product.costar.com/home/news/1945284688. This article is based on that reporting while exploring what these leadership moves could mean for Boise commercial real estate, brokerage services, investment activity, and the future of the industry. The industry is preparing for the next market cycle. Leadership changes happen every year. What stands out in this group of announcements is where firms are choosing to invest. Rather than simply filling open positions, many companies are strengthening areas expected to drive future growth. Among the major announcements: * Berkadia named Blake Okland as chief revenue officer to oversee client growth, investment sales, and mortgage banking. * Cushman & Wakefield hired Benjamin Westrich as head of forecasting, combining econometric modeling, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to improve market predictions. * Colliers expanded its capital markets team with the addition of Justin Arzi. * Newmark hired Kaitlyn Rausse to strengthen its agency leasing business in the Washington, D.C., region. * Kurv Industrial added Gian Rodriguez to lead expansion in the Miami market. * Greysteel expanded its Northwest capital markets platform with Jakob Nicholls. * Hillpointe promoted several executives focused on branding, marketing, and multifamily community launches. Each appointment reflects a different part of the commercial real estate business, but together they point toward larger industry trends. Data and AI are becoming competitive advantages. One of the most interesting developments is the growing role of technology. Cushman & Wakefield's decision to create a stronger forecasting platform centered on artificial intelligence and predictive modeling highlights how quickly commercial real estate is becoming more data-driven. Today's investors increasingly rely on forecasting tools that analyze: * Market cycles * Employment growth * Interest rates * Leasing activity * Construction pipelines * Capital markets * Demographic trends Artificial intelligence isn't replacing commercial real estate professionals. Instead, it's helping firms make faster and more informed decisions. Why this matters for Boise commercial real estate. National brokerage firms often identify industry trends long before they become obvious in local markets. When companies invest in forecasting, capital markets, industrial specialists, and office leasing leadership, it signals confidence that transaction activity will continue evolving rather than slowing. For Boise commercial real estate, these trends could influence several areas. Industrial leasing may remain strong as manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain users continue expanding. Office leasing is becoming more specialized, with greater emphasis on tenant experience, workplace strategy, and flexible space planning. Investment sales professionals are also increasingly relying on sophisticated market analytics to evaluate pricing, risk, and long-term performance. Local firms that adopt these tools may gain an advantage when serving buyers, sellers, landlords, and tenants. Relationships still matter. Technology may improve forecasting, but commercial real estate remains a relationship-driven business. Many of the executives promoted or hired have decades of experience building client relationships, negotiating transactions, and leading regional teams. That reinforces an important point. Data can improve decisions, but experienced professionals continue creating opportunities by understanding local markets, solving problems, and building trust with clients. Those fundamentals remain unchanged. Key takeaways. * Major commercial real estate firms are investing in experienced leadership. * Artificial intelligence and predictive analytics are becoming more important for market forecasting. * Capital markets, industrial real estate, office leasing, and multifamily continue attracting executive talent. * Relationship management remains a major priority alongside technology. * National leadership trends often signal where future commercial real estate activity may grow. Local insight. Boise's commercial real estate market continues becoming more sophisticated each year. As institutional investors, national tenants, and larger development projects enter the Treasure Valley, local professionals will increasingly compete using better market intelligence, stronger technology, and deeper industry expertise. For Boise commercial real estate, the firms that combine local relationships with advanced analytics are likely to provide the greatest value for clients. The future of brokerage isn't choosing between technology and experience. It's bringing both together to make smarter investment, leasing, and development decisions. Mike Gioioso (joy-OH-so) has for 16+ years been helping companies of all sizes buy, build, and lease perfect places for business in greater Boise, Idaho and beyond. www.streetsmartidaho.com [email protected] 208-209-9166

People move: Tumy Carter joins Cushman & Wakefield as Director, Capital Markets in Orange County. July 23, 2026 She spent more than two decades delivering closing arguments in front of a jury. Now she'll focus on delivering closings in commercial real estate. Tumy Carter has joined Cushman & Wakefield's Orange County office as Director, Capital Markets, on the retail team, bringing a background most brokers simply do not have: a full career built entirely inside the disputes, the fine print, and the risk that she now helps her clients avoid before it ever reaches a courtroom. YEARS IN CRE & LAW JURY TRIAL WINS CRE DEALS NEGOTIATED Carter joins Cushman & Wakefield's Orange County Capital Markets and Retail practice, advising investors, owners, and businesses on the acquisition, management, financing, leasing, and disposition of commercial real estate assets. It is full-cycle advisory work, the kind of assignment where a broker touches everything from sourcing a deal to structuring the financing to walking a client through the fine print of a real estate contracts, and it is work Carter has quietly built a career around twice now. First from behind a legal pad. Now from behind a deal sheet. Before she ever wore the title of broker, Carter spent more than fifteen years as a business and real estate litigation attorney. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and International Studies from the University of California, Irvine in 1994, then her Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles in 1997. She spent her early legal years at Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, one of the largest national law firms with a deep bench in Orange County, before ultimately dedicating more than fifteen years at Bryner Crosby, APC, as Senior Litigation and Trial Counsel. That fifteen-year stretch changed the narrative. Carter did not handle general litigation. She handled and consulted on complex business and real estate disputes almost exclusively: ownership and title fights, breach of purchase and sale agreements, breach of commercial and residential lease agreements, landlord-tenant conflicts, neighbor nuisance claims, adverse possession, constructive easements, premises liability, a broker's duty of care to a client, private money and institutional lending disputes, and joint venture breakdowns. She worked across the strata of the legal system, including litigation, arbitration, and appellate work, three very different arenas that each demand a different kind of approach. When real estate deals went wrong, badly wrong, wrong enough to end up in front of a jury, Carter was often the attorney trying the case. Every real estate matter she put before a jury ended in a favorable verdict for her client. Not most. Every one. That kind of record does not happen by accident, and it does not happen without learning exactly where deals break. Eventually, Carter made the leap that few litigators make: she stopped representing the fallout of bad real estate deals, and through brokering, started building good ones. Personal experience as a portfolio manager in office, retail, and healthcare properties throughout Orange County spurred agility to handle the gamut and the gauntlet of commercial real estate matters. In one of the most competitive commercial real estate markets in the country, this is the kind of expertise that tends to produce brokers who are unusually good at the parts of the job that never make it into a listing sheet: reading a counterparty correctly, knowing when to push and when to hold, and telling a client the truth about a deal even when it is not what they want to hear. It is a rare combination, and it is worth sitting with for a moment. Most commercial real estate brokers learn what can go wrong in a deal by watching it happen to a client, or by hearing about it secondhand from a broker down the hall. Carter learned it by cross-examining it. She has stood in front of a jury and argued exactly how a lease agreement fell apart, exactly how a title defect surfaced too late, exactly what a broker owed a client and did not deliver. She has seen, in explicit legal detail, every way a commercial real estate transaction can quietly go sideways long before either side notices. That is not a resume line. That is instinct, and it is the kind of instinct that does not disappear just because the title on the business card changes from attorney to broker. If anything, it sharpens. For Cushman & Wakefield's Orange County team, that instinct is exactly the point. Investors, owners, and business tenants navigating capital markets and retail real estate right now are dealing with a more complicated environment than they were a few years ago, one where Orange County's market is transitioning faster than its leadership bench: financing is tighter, lease structures carry more scrutiny, and the cost of a mistake in a purchase and sale agreement or a lending arrangement is higher than it used to be. Having a broker on the team who has spent a career translating exactly that kind of fine print and liability exposure into decisions a client can actually act on, is not a nice-to-have. It is a genuine edge. Cushman & Wakefield's Orange County office already runs one of the more established retail advisory practices in the region, and Carter's appointment adds depth to both the retail and capital markets side of that bench at the same time, joining a run of notable Cushman & Wakefield additions we have covered recently, including Chris Maling in Downtown LA retail capital markets and Tom Maloney as Chair of Occupier Advisory Services. Retail owners and investors in Orange County are not just leasing space right now, they are underwriting risk on every deal: co-tenancy clauses, percentage rent structures, assignment and subletting rights, and the kind of lending covenants that used to be boilerplate and are now heavily negotiated. A director who brings a level of scrutiny to due diligence is the kind of hire that shows up quietly in a client's confidence long before it shows up in a headline. It is the same pattern we track across the SoCal talent market again and again: the professionals who end up commanding the most trust are frequently the ones who have already lived inside the exact problem they are now hired to solve. A CFO who has sat through an FDA approval push before stepping into a biotech's finance seat. A broker who has tried the exact category of cases she now works to prevent. Cushman & Wakefield's Orange County Capital Markets and Retail team adds a rare kind of fluency with Carter's appointment, someone who has effectively represented both sides of the table long before she was ever paid to sit at it professionally. Carter is a member of the National Association of Realtors, Orange County Association of Realtors, Vietnamese National Association of Real Estate Professionals, Vietnamese American Chamber of Commerce, Orange County Asian American Bar Association, Vietnamese American Bar Association, and National Asian Pacific American Bar Association. To Tumy Carter: congratulations on the new chapter. Few professionals arrive at a deal table having already tried the alternative in front of a jury and won every time, and fewer still make a transition like this one look this natural. Orange County's investors, owners, and tenants just gained a broker who has already seen exactly how the story ends when a deal goes wrong, and has built her entire second career around making sure it does not. Know a leader who deserves this spotlight? This is what we do at Recruiter Hustle: we don't just report the move, we honor the person behind it. If you, your company, or someone you admire just stepped into a new chapter, we want to tell that story right. HEART. HUMAN. HUSTLE. Sources & verification Cathy Trinh Chief Talent Strategist & Editor-in-Chief | 26-year global recruiting veteran, #1 bestselling author, cancer survivor & humanitarian. 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Cushman & Wakefield strengthens leadership team with appointment of Ben McGrath as Managing Director, Brisbane. Noral Wild - 23/07/2026. Cushman & Wakefield has today announced the appointment of Ben McGrath as Managing Director, Queensland, effective today, reinforcing the firm's commitment to continued growth across one of Australia's strongest commercial real estate markets. The appointment is the latest in a series of strategic leadership appointments across Cushman & Wakefield's Australian business and reflects the firm's continued investment in Queensland as it expands its platform and client offering across the state. Ben joins Cushman & Wakefield after a distinguished career leading commercial real estate businesses in Queensland, including Managing Director of Knight Frank, Queensland and National Director, JLL. He also spent five years based in China, developing experience in regional capital flows and offshore client relationships. Most recently, Ben led his own advisory and investment management business which founded a successful modular housing business to address the critical shortage of affordable housing across the country. Ben's appointment comes as Queensland builds momentum among Australia's strongest-performing commercial real estate markets, with robust transaction activity, resilient occupier demand and growing interest from domestic and offshore investors. Noral Wild, Chief Executive, Australia, New Zealand and North Asia, said, "Ben's appointment is the latest step in strengthening its national leadership team as Cushwakeproperty continue to invest in markets where Cushwakeproperty see opportunities for sustained growth. "Queensland is one of Australia's most dynamic commercial real estate markets and has been a longstanding focus within our national strategy. Ben's extensive leadership and office investment market experience puts him in great stead to lead our Queensland business as we seek to expand our platform and create greater value for clients." Commenting on his appointment, Ben McGrath said, "Queensland continues to present exceptional opportunities across a diverse range of commercial real estate markets, and Cushman & Wakefield is well positioned to help clients realise that potential. "The business has a talented local and national team and an enviable reputation as a global leader in Commercial Real Estate Markets. I'm looking forward to building on these foundations, strengthening our Core Agency business, and working closely with our clients and people, to drive the next phase of growth for the Queensland business." Ben's appointment is effective today and forms part of Cushman & Wakefield's continued investment in strengthening its Queensland leadership and client platform. Contacts. * Noral Wild Chief Executive - ANZ & NAsia