CBRE Vice Chairman Tom Shafer Departs to Join Capital Real Estate Group — Form New Commercial Real Estate Platform for High Value Clients

ATLANTA, March 9, 2021 / PRNewswire / – CBRE Group, Inc. Vice Chairman Tom Shafer announced today that he is leaving the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm to build an unprecedented investment sales / capital markets platform with Capital Real Estate Group. This new division aims to deliver exceptional results to valued customers around the world. Shafer believes that this type of customer experience is what top-level companies would ask for. if only they knew it existed.

The Vice Chairman of the Capital Real Estate Group, Thomas R. Shafer

“The S-Team experience is more about managing relationships, understanding what customers own, and providing services to them before they ask for it,” said Shafer. “It’s easy for our rated customers to get the real-time tailored information they need to make better decisions and create value. The S-Team delivers it to customers before they even realize they need it.”

Tom Shafer is joined in the move of John Hinsonwho has worked shoulder to shoulder with Shafer for 15 years. Together they formed the S team, which has completed 100 unique transactions since March 2020. The S team has signed a new contract with the Capital Real Estate Group.

“Tom’s work ethic, tenacity and creativity are unmatched. As we continue to grow nationally, there is no better team to run our sales platform for office, industrial and retail investments,” said the President of the Capital Real Estate Group. Bennett Gottlieb.

Gottlieb and his partner John Thornton Founded Atlanta-based Capital Real Estate Group after identifying a need in the industry for a real estate advisory and brokerage firm that builds on a culture of superior service and results in the best possible solution for the client. In addition to the redesigned investment sales platform led by Shafer, the company represents the interests of office tenants and tenants ranging from technology startups to Fortune 500 companies and has a national US investment sales brokerage Team for health care.

Shafer brings its proprietary CairEA and LenZZZ technology to the Capital Real Estate Group and sees this as a decisive advantage over the competition. This technology and focus enables Shafer to remain true to its dedication to “customer-driven real estate”.

These groundbreaking startups remain an integral part of Shafer’s team’s ability to consistently produce incredible results. Indeed between March 2020 and February 2021Thanks to Shafer’s focus on his client’s endeavors and CairEA’s predictive analysis, he was able to close 100 unique transactions with a team of just two. “Lean and Mean” was the way Shafer led his team at CBRE.

Biography of Tom Shafer

Tom Shafer was vice chairman of the Capital Markets Investment Properties Group of CBRE Atlanta. Through the S-Team platform, he provides advisory services and solutions for property sales, equity financing and land sales to companies with assets throughout the southeastern United States.

Prior to joining CBRE, Mr. Shafer was one of four directors at Atlanta-based Resource Real Estate Partner. For over a dozen years he headed the Income Property Sales team and successfully brokered the sale of $ 5B and over 40 million square feet in commercial assets. The 2012 acquisition of Resource Real Estate Partners brought him to CBRE.

During his career, Mr. Shafer has been recognized as a Top Ten Producing Broker (Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors) and has received the coveted award as the # 1 Top Investment Producer. Since joining CBRE, he has been recognized nationwide as the Top 20 Office Producer, Top 10% Overall Producer, Top 5% Overall Producer, and Top 3% Overall Producer among all US markets.

Under his leadership, his team at CBRE had a tight 95% rate and consistently exceeded customer expectations. The S-Team has completed and brokered over 100 transactions $ 320 million on sale since March 2020 under their motto:

“Disrupt the way commercial real estate trades one deal at a time.”

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SOURCE Capital Real Estate Group