Jay Adams joined Newmark in 2016 as a senior managing director in the company’s Boca Raton office, where he specializes in landlord representation. Mr. Adams focuses his practice on office agency leasing on behalf of corporate, institutional and entrepreneurial property owners. His responsibilities include new business development, negotiation, strategic planning and management of all aspects of landlord representation real estate services, including property and asset management.
Mr. Adams has more than 23 years of commercial real estate experience, predominately in single-tenant and large-block office building advisory throughout South Florida, as well as multi-tenant buildings with an emphasis on national credit users. Mr. Adams is consistently a top producer in the state and regularly places among South Florida’s top five producers.
Prior to Newmark, Mr. Adams served as first vice president for CBRE’s Brokerage Services Division in the Fort Lauderdale office for over 20 years. He previously worked with The Allen Morris Company on tenant representation and office leasing assignments.
TRANSACTION EXPERIENCE
- Kaplan/Purdue, 240,000 RSF
- Kaplan Online, 120,000 RSF
- Career City College, 110,000 RSF
- Convergys, 100,000 RSF
- GSA, 100,000 RSF
- Fairfield Enterprises, 93,000 RSF
- Aetna, 85,000 RSF
- Citrix, 75,000 RSF
- Comcast, 65,000 RSF
- Crawford & Company, 64,000 RSF
- Kemet HQ, 62,000 RSF
- Microsoft, 60,000 RSF
- Sprint, 55,000 RSF
- Watson Title Services, 54,000 RSF
- AT&T, 50,000, RSF
- State Farm, 50,000 RSF
- Medtronic, 50,000 RSF
- iQor, 45,000 RSF
- US Gas and Electric,42,000 RSF
- Akamai,33,000 SF
- Brown & Brown Insurance, 30,000 RSF
- NECC, 27,000 RSF
- Fifth Third Bank, 25,000 SF
- Seitlin Insurance (acquired by Marsh & McLennan Agency in 2011), 25,000 RSF
- U.S. Social Security Administration, 24,000 RSF
- Crowe Chizek (now Crowe Horwath), 22,000 RSF
- Pernod Ricard, 22,000 SF
- Liberty Life, 22,000 RSF
- Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson, 21,000 RSF
- YUM! Brands, 21,000 RSF
PARTIAL CLIENT LIST
- Crawford & Company
- Deutsch Bank
- INVESCO Realty Advisors
- Koneco Building Services (KBS)
- Midgard
- NTS Development Company
- Piedmont Office Realty Trust
- Regency
- RM Realty
- RREEF Property Trust
- Space Coast Credit Union (SCCU)
- TIAA
- Wells Fargo
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- NAIOP
- Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR)
- Beach Redevelopment Board, city of Fort Lauderdale
- Historic Preservation Board, city of Fort Lauderdale
- Riverwalk Trust Board, city of Fort Lauderdale
Mr. Adams graduated from the University of Arkansas, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration with a focus on real estate and finance.