Patricia Raicht

Current responsibilities

Patricia Raicht is the Senior Vice President and National Director of Research for the Western US directing all aspects of the local market research programs, output, and staff for all markets west of the Rocky Mountains. Patricia focuses on expanding and deepening the research platform into a strong component of the firm's offering and integrated approach to client service in the region. Patricia brings a tremendous depth of research experience that enhances leverage of the firm's collective knowledge of market dynamics in a way that guides strategic decision making and identifies risks and opportunities for clients.

Experience

Patricia brings more than 30 years of detailed experience in the commercial real estate industry to JLL. She is responsible for directing the statistical tracking and reporting of an array of issues impacting the commercial office market, including economic data, corporate leasing activity and capital markets trends. Patricia is recognized regionally as a leading real estate market analyst, responsible for planning and executing integrated strategies to enhance JLL's analytical and predictive intelligence capabilities. She has been an author and ghost-author of guest columns for local, regional and national media publications regarding commercial real estate market trends. In 2017, Patricia was named one of 25 Women of Influence by the Portland Business Journal.

Prior to joining Jones Lang LaSalle, Patricia spent 16 years as Regional Director of Research and Marketing with Grubb & Ellis, in addition to time with the Association for Portland Progress and a Washington, D.C. development firm, The Kaempfer Company.

Patricia is passionate about diversity and inclusion and sits on the leadership team of JLL's LGBT+ employee resource group, Building Pride, where she is the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) Champion, responsible for monitoring the firm's progress toward a perfect score from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation's CEI, a national benchmarking survey on corporate policies and practices related to LGBT workplace. JLL has earned a perfect score from the CEI for the past 3 years. Patricia is also on the national board and is the Portland Council Chair of iUrban Teen, a non-profit whose mission it is to expose and inspire underrepresented youth to become tomorrow's business and technology leaders.

Education

BS with distinction, George Washington University

Masters Program, University of California, Berkeley

Affiliations

Board Member and Chair, Portland Council, iUrban Teen (Non-Profit dedicated to exposing at-risk youth to STEM careers)

Corporate Equality Index Champion, JLL LGBT+ ERG Building Pride

2017 Portland Business Journal Woman of Influence

Member and Past Co-Chair, Commercial Association of Brokers