As Executive Managing Director, Principal - Investment Sales and Capital Markets at Newmark Zimmer, Chris Robertson, CCIM, is responsible for the acquisition and disposition of investment properties for individual investors, regional investment groups and institutional clients. His services include the identification, evaluation, marketing and negotiation of investment property types including office, medical office, industrial, retail, multi-family, hospitality and land. Since joining Newmark Zimmer, Chris has handled the acquisition and disposition of more than 9.0 million square feet of investment properties and loan sales valued in excess of $605 million.

Adept in the principles of real estate investment, Chris takes a quantitative approach to the business. He is proficient in several software programs including Argus, ProCalc and Excel-based financial modeling. He also utilizes CoStar, Xceligent, LoopNet and Real Estate Applications.

Chris joined Newmark Zimmer in 2014 as a financial analyst for the Investments Services Group, where he was responsible for investment financial analysis of all commercial property types. In 2016, 2018 and 2019, Chris was named one of the Kansas City Business Journal's Heavy Hitters. In 2019, he was named one of Ingram Magazine's 20 in Their Twenties.

Prior to joining Newmark Zimmer, Chris worked as an analyst for Integra Realty Resources. In this position, he provided valuation analysis of retail, land, multi-family, industrial and office properties. Valuation assignments were prepared on proposed, partially completed and existing structures.

Partial List of Lease Transactions:

• Lenexa Industrial Portfolio - 589,391 SF

• Epic Center Office Tower - 314,644 SF

• Front Business Center – 275,162 SF

• Mark Twain Tower - 273,968 SF

• Bayer Logistics Center - 251,100 SF

• Mission Towers Office Tower - 186,010 SF

• Corporate Circle Office Portfolio - 187,000 SF

• Northpointe Office Tower - 109,193 SF

• Crash Champions Portfolio - 115,271 SF

• Kohl's Lenexa - 105,000 SF

• Southwest Plaza Shopping Center - 100,396 SF

• Gladstone Plaza Shopping Center - 94,494 SF

• General Electric Industrial Building – 84,200 SF

• West Des Moines Office – 47,559 SF

• Westlake Springfield Shopping Center - 42,936 SF

• Douglas Station Shopping Center - 41,088 SF

• Google Fiber Office Building - 32,624 SF

• Waterloo Apartments – 181 units

• Westfield Manor Apartments – 84 units

• Greystone Fourplexes – 72 units

• Colonial Highlands – 66 units

• Team Industrial – 65,000 SF

• 8300 College Boulevard – 56,994 SF

• Westgate Village – 97 units

• Ash Street Place Apartments – 185 units

• Fairfax Bluffs – 254 units

Professional Affiliations:

• Mentorship program, Urban Land Institute (ULI)

• Board member, Northland Young Professionals, 2017 and 2018

• Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM)

• Programs chair, Education chair, board of directors, CCIM (2019 – Present)

Chris currently holds a trainee real property appraiser license for the state of Missouri. He has also completed several courses offered by the Appraisal Institute, including:

• Basic Appraisal Principles

• Basic Appraisal Procedures

• Supervisory Appraiser/Trainee Appraiser

• Real Estate Finance

• Statistics and Valuation Modeling 15-Hour National USPAP

Education:

Chris holds a Bachelor of Science in business administration degree with an emphasis in finance and real estate from the University of Missouri-Columbia.