Every year, AZ Big Media, which publishes both PTK and AZRE magazines selects Arizona’s top people and projects to showcase in its premier commercial real estate magazine — PTK — from an impressive and competitive nomination pool. Each day we will highlight 20 different categories of People to Know. Here are the office brokers to know in Arizona for 2024:
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Joe Cosgrove
Partner
LevRose Commercial Real Estate
Involved in the Phoenix real estate market since 2013, Cosgrove’s specialties include office and industrial leasing and sales throughout the Greater Phoenix area. Since becoming a partner at LevRose, he has gained valuable experience throughout multiple facets of the CRE industry. His extensive career has provided him with in-depth knowledge of fluctuating market trends, allowing him to anticipate the needs of each of his clients.
Biggest career accomplishment: “My proudest career accomplishment is becoming a partner at LevRose. I’m especially proud, given that LevRose is the first and only office job I’ve ever had.”
No. 1 on the commercial real estate bucket list: “Down the road, I would like to own retail properties, preferably in Scottsdale.”
Marina Hammersmith
Senior vice president
M&T Healthcare Partners at ORION Investment Real Estate
For almost three decades, Hammersmith has been a commercial real estate broker with a focus on healthcare real estate. She’s handled everything from property and project management to full-service brokerage and worked with clients ranging from individual solo practices to large hospital systems and institutional investors.
Biggest career accomplishment: “The opportunity to navigate the challenges and rewards of being a mother while balancing the rigors of a successful career. This is a testament to the many women who have paved the way before me and it’s a reminder that with the right mindset and the support of loved ones, anything is possible.”
Surprising fact: “I grew up on a dairy farm in Oregon and spent my teenage years as a farm hand.”
Alexandra Loye
Executive managing director
Cushman & Wakefield
With more than 12 years of experience, Alexandra has completed more than 500 sales and lease transactions valued at $1B during her successful career. Prior to Cushman & Wakefield, she was a senior vice president at Colliers, where she was recognized as a top producer in Arizona and the U.S.
Biggest career accomplishment: “Achieving record pricing for an office building in Metro Phoenix — $573 per square foot — for Camelback Collective in a $66.35 million transaction in 2022 and achieving record pricing for a mixed-use office/retail building — $745 per square foot — 425 Mill in 2021 for $16.55 million.”
Surprising fact: “I was born in Mexico and lived on a sailboat for the first three years of my life, sailing around the world with my parents.”
Todd Noel
Vice chairman and national director of Education Advisory Group
Colliers in Arizona
Noel has more than 20 years of commercial real estate experience, specializing in educational and office properties and corporate tenant representation. With a tenacious and focused negotiation style, Noel has developed a reputation for delivering the most aggressive deal terms for his clients. He has also been named NAIOP Office Broker of the Year and NAIOP Tenant Representative Broker of the Year. He is a consistent Top Producer at Colliers in Arizona, having reached the No. 1 producer position many years.
No. 1 on the commercial real estate bucket list: “To be remembered as a true, strategic advisor who understood the importance of integrity and incorporated it into every deal I worked on.”
Ryan Timpani
Managing director
JLL
As a managing director with JLL, Timpani specializes in the sale and leasing of office properties locally and nationally. He has extensive expertise in tenant and landlord representation, land for development, investments and build-to-suits. He thoroughly analyzes financial and market trends to deliver aggressive real estate strategies to optimize the value of his clients’ real estate.
Ryan takes great pride in developing lasting client relationships. For him, the relationship comes first, second and last. Client experience includes but is not limited to: Crown West Realty, LLC, Fenway Capital Advisors, George Oliver LLC, Redstone Group, ViaWest Group and Neudesic.
Biggest career accomplishment: “Every project in which I can help investor clients fulfill their vision — from design to construction to lease-up and sale.”
Surprising fact: “I do, in fact, own socks.”
