Jesse Ottele joined Newmark Knight Frank in 2016, as an Executive Managing Director in the Seattle office. Mr. Ottele is a 22+ year veteran of commercial real estate focused primarily on Institutional Agency Leasing in the Downtown Seattle area. Prior to NKF, he was a Senior Vice President at CBRE for 12+ years, where he provided landlord and tenant advisory services throughout the Seattle metropolitan region. In 2019, he closed more than 30 lease transactions totaling more than 1 million square feet of space in multiple buildings across the Puget Sound region.
Mr. Ottele has been recognized throughout his career as one of the premier brokers in the Puget Sound region, including being a three-time winner and three-time finalist of the Puget Sound SIOR/ NAIOP Office Broker of the year award. Mr. Ottele has also been named a Costar Power Broker 15 times. In 2019, Jesse joined NKF Chairman’s Circle Top 100 Producers Nationally, was a recipient of the Top Broker award from Connect Media for the Western Region, named SIOR/ NAIOP Office Broker of the year for the Puget Sound and a Costar Power Broker.
Partial List of Landlord Transactions (300,000+)
- US Bank Centre, Seattle, Office: 950,000 SF
- Russell Investments Center, Seattle, Office: 890,000 SF
- Fourth & Madison, Seattle, Office: 850,000 SF
- Metropolitan Park East & West, Seattle, Office: 700,000 SF
- 2&U, Seattle, Office: 700,000 SF
- Union Station (605, 625 & 705), Seattle, Office: 565,000 SF
- Westlake Tower, Seattle, Office: 365,000 SF
- Park Place, Seattle, Office: 317,000 SF
- Elliott West Campus (351, 401 & 501), Seattle, Office: 301,000 SF
- 400 Dexter, Seattle, Office/ Life Science: 300,000 SF
Partial List of Tenant Transactions (50,000+)
- Regus/HQ Global, Seattle, Office: 380,000 SF
- Washington Mutual Bank, Seattle, Office: 375,000 SF
- WPP Group USA, Seattle, Office: 265,000 SF
- Cell Therapeutics Inc., Seattle, Office: 180,000 SF
- Space Flight Industries, Seattle, Office: 77,000 SF
- RR Donnelley, Seattle, Office: 65,000 SF
- Car Toys, Seattle, Office: 52,000 SF
- Carney Bradley Spellman, P.S., Seattle, Office: 52,000 SF
- Watermark Credit Union, Seattle, Office: 50,000 SF
Professional Achievements
- Finalist, Office Broker of the Year, Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) & NAIOP, 2013, 2015 and 2020; Winner, 2011, 2014 and 2019
- Newmark Chairman’s Circle Top 100, Nationally, Newmark, 2019
- Connect Media Top Broker Award, Western Region, 2019
- Power Broker, CoStar, 2003 - 2007 and 2010 - 2019
Affiliations
- Committee Chair, Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Annual Cystic Fibrosis-Mariners Care Golf Tournament, 2010-Present
- Committee Chair, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Annual Hutch Award Luncheon, 2012-Present
- Mentor Program, NAIOP
Education
Jesse earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in business administration from California Lutheran University.