William Steele

William Steele has been a Senior Managing Director with the Silicon Valley office of Newmark since 2012. He specializes in the sale and lease of commercial properties throughout the Silicon Valley and San Francisco Peninsula and has conducted business across the United States. He brings a vast skill set and a strong work ethic to the service of his clients. Prior to joining Newmark, he was a top producing SVP with the San Jose office of Grubb & Ellis Company (1993-2012), where he received many national awards for production and service. Preceding Grubb & Ellis, he worked with Cunningham Associates and BTS Brokerage. Mr. Steele has completed more than 1,000 sale and lease transactions with a total consideration value in excess of $1 billion. He has experience negotiating and advising on marketing, acquisition, sale and leasing pf properties across a broad spectrum of transactions and product types. Experience includes build-to-suits, land sales, property assemblage, 1031 & 1033 tax deferred exchanges, reverse exchanges, improvement exchanges, ground leases, options, eminent domain proceedings, trustee sales, bankruptcy sales and lender sales. Has worked through complex land use issues and project entitlement, conditional use permits, re-zoning and general plan changes, environmental issues as well as ground-up construction and significant renovation/repositioning.

• Specialties
  Investment Sales Broker, Tenant Rep
• Languages
  English
• Markets
  San Francisco, East Bay/Oakland, South Bay/San Jose
• Property Types
  Industrial, Land, Office, Retail, Flex
• Websites
  LINKEDIN PROFILE
• Company Website
  Visit Site
• Education
  Syracuse University
• Organizations
  CCIM - Certified Commercial Investment Member, NAIOP - National Association of Industrial and Off, ULI - Urban Land Institute