Senior Managing Director Troy Ballard Will Team with Vice Chairman Robert Given's Institutional Multifamily Investment Sales Group, Which Recently Joined Cushman & Wakefield from CBRE

Cushman & Wakefield announced today that Troy Ballard has joined the firm’s South Florida Multifamily Capital Investments team as Senior Managing Director.

Ballard will partner with Vice Chairman Robert Given’s multifamily institutional investment sales team, which joined Cushman & Wakefield from CBRE last week. He brings nearly two decades of multifamily development, operations, and brokerage experience to the team.

Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Ballard served as Senior Managing Director in ARA Newmark’s Boca Raton office, where he founded the firm’s South Florida Land Division. At ARA Newmark, Ballard was lead broker on land transactions representing nearly 4,000 units with an expected development value of over $1 billion. Previously, Ballard was a founding partner and President of TM Real Estate Group. Under Ballard’s guidance, TM Real Estate Group participated in the operations, management, acquisition or disposition of nearly 10,000 residential units and numerous land projects ranging from core infill to mixed-use and suburban sites.

Ballard also served as Senior Project Director at The Related Group of Florida, where he helped develop numerous residential and mix-use projects, including the award-winning CityPlace in West Palm Beach.

Ballard joins Given’s newly-arrived nine-person team which focuses exclusively on representing institutional and private owners in the sale of multifamily properties, developable land and structured equity finance in Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Naples and throughout the state of Florida. Over the past 13 years, Given’s team has closed more than $20 billion in multifamily investment sales and consistently lead South Florida capital markets rankings.

“Troy’s expertise in South Florida is extremely unique,” said Given. “He adds tremendous value for our clientele and further strengthens the team we’re building here at Cushman & Wakefield.”

“Troy’s expertise in the multifamily platform further deepens our already extensive local market knowledge and continues the momentum we currently have in the market,” added Senior Managing Director and Florida Market Leader Larry Richey. “We’ve quickly repositioned our firm as a market leader in this sector by aggressively recruiting the best and brightest professionals in the industry.”

Ballard holds a professional Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Miami with minors in Real Estate Finance, Business Administration and Art. He continues to serve the University as a member of the Advisory Board of the schools Master of Real Estate Development + Urbanism program.

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