Wilma Warshak

Wilma Warshak has been a widely recognized leader in virtually all aspects of the industrial real estate advisory and brokerage business for more than twenty five years. She founded Washington Real Estate Advisors, a boutique real estate firm, which is now considered a heavyweight service provider in the local marketplace. During that time she has represented major corporate clients and many of the nation’s largest institutional and private investors, including, Prologis, TA Associates, First Industrial, Link (Blackstone Group) Prudential, Blackrock, Black Creek Group, Teutsch Partners, DeustcheBank (RREEF), Port of Tacoma, Americold, and Panattoni, as well as corporate users, Saltchuk, Thrift Books, Blue Nile, Cutter & Buck, Sears, Safeway, Amazon.com, and Boeing. Ms. Warshak has been involved in numerous investment sales throughout the Puget Sound. She previously completed one of the largest single market industrial investment sales, at that time, on the West Coast, of one million square feet and sold 13 acres in South Seattle at the highest land price ever achieved in that market. She has a proven history of selling development sites and being retained as the leasing broker. She represented the buyer in the $60,000,000 purchase of the 93-acre Former Intel Campus in DuPont, WA where she was retained as the leasing broker for 1.2 million SF. More recently, she sold 39 acres in Lakewood, WA and is representing the developer as the leasing broker for 700,000 SF in 3 buildings. Prior to founding WA-REA, Wilma was Colliers International’s top producing industrial broker in the Northwest for 18 years. Eighteen times she received the prestigious Colliers International Award for Excellence, given annually to the top five percent of Colliers professionals worldwide. In addition, she was also named Colliers International Top Professional North America. Known in the industry for effectiveness, access to decision-makers and creativity in representing clients’ strategic long-term interests, Wilma has three times earned the Industrial Broker of the Year Award for Washington State SIOR and has been a finalist multiple times, including most recently in 2022. The national industry research firm Costar has repeatedly named her Power Broker as recently as 2021. Through her national and local work she has built a wide network of professional relationships that help her uncover opportunities and negotiate effectively. Wilma mentors others in the industry as an instructor of industrial real estate in the University of Washington’s Real Estate Program. She currently serves as Vice Chair of the SIOR Global Industrial Member Group. Locally, she is a member of the Port of Seattle’s 2020 Real Estate Development Strategic Plan Advisory Committee. In the past, she has served as President of Washington State SIOR and founded and headed the local chapter for CSCMP (Council of Supply Chain Professionals). She is sought after as a speaker, having addressed numerous industry meetings and conferences throughout her career. Wilma received a Masters of Architecture from the University of Washington. She is a registered architect and, early in her career, worked on the design and planning of several commercial projects at NBBJ in Seattle.

• Specialties
  Investment Sales Broker, Tenant Rep
• Languages
  English
• Markets
  Baltimore, Chicago, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle/Puget Sound, Olympia
• Property Types
  Industrial, Land, Office, Retail
• Company Website
  Visit Site
• Education
  University of Washington
• Organizations
  SIOR - Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, NAR - National Association of Realtors