Mike Courson
Specializing in the representation of landlords, tenants and investors throughout the Greater Silicon Valley.
Mike Courson joined Newmark Knight Frank in 2012 as an executive managing director specializing in the representation of landlords, tenants and investors throughout the Greater Silicon Valley. In February 2018, Mr. Courson was promoted to vice chairman. Prior to joining the Palo Alto office, Mr. Courson spent 10 years at Cushman & Wakefield (formerly Cassidy Turley), where he achieved partner status within his first four years in the business. Throughout his commercial real estate career, his transactions have exceeded $3 billion in value, and since 2003, he has closed more than 12.2 million square feet in lease and sale transactions. Mr. Courson has participated in numerous sales and leasing transactions that were later nominated by local business journals as deals of the year. Three standouts are Stanford's acquisition of the Mid-Point Technology Campus located in Redwood City, totaling 898,278 square feet; ING Clarion's acquisition of 133,036 square feet along Sand Hill Road; and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's (CZI's) build-to-suit, 100,000-rentable-square-foot headquarters located in downtown Redwood City. Throughout Mr. Courson's career, Mr. Courson has paid special attention to downtown amenity and transit orientated markets, particularly Mountain View, Palo Alto and Redwood City. In 2017, Mr Courson led four major Class A ground-up lease transactions in downtown Redwood City totaling more than 315,000 rentable square feet. Associated tenants included CZI, Go Fund Me, McKinsey & Company, Bessemer Ventures, Gunderson Dettmer, SendGrid and Highfive.
- SpecialtiesInvestment Sales Broker, Tenant Rep
- LanguagesEnglish
- MarketsSan Francisco, South Bay/San Jose
- Property TypesIndustrial, Land, Office, Retail, Flex
- Websites
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- EducationMike graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara
