PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
As Senior Vice President at Fairchild Partners, Inc. in Coral Gables, Florida, Tony Puente brings more than 20 years experience and expertise in the South Florida commercial real estate industry. Mr. Puente has represented both landlords and tenants in the leasing, acquisition and disposition of office properties with a total of over 650 transactions. Throughout his career, Mr. Puente has represented many institutional and entrepreneurial owners of office properties in South Florida, including Hines, GE Asset Management, Tishman Speyer Properties, Equitable Real Estate, Fortis, Inc., Irradio Holdings, Ltd. (Raul Alarcon). With his knowledge and experience, he is able to create value-added services for clients throughout the entire real estate process, including identifying specific clients needs, full evaluation of the targeted markets, lease negotiations and ultimately achieving client satisfaction. Most recently, Mr. Puente has been responsible for leasing and marketing over 1.760 million square feet of product in Miami-Dade County.
SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Mr. Puente as account manager from 2002 to 2006 directed the leasing, management, marketing campaign and successful sale in 2006 for SBS Tower, a 320,000 square foot Class A office building in Coconut Grove. SBS Tower occupancy went from a low of 68% to 86% upon the sale of the asset valued at over 100 million dollars. In addition, under his guidance, Airport Corporate Center a 1,000,000 SF mixed use office park, leased more new square footage than any other project in the Airport/West Dade submarket in 2002 and 2003. Mr Puente is presently responsible for the leasing of Bank of America Tower at International Place, a 600,000 RSF, IKON Office Building.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
• Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM)Local Board Member - President Elect 2009
• Commercial Industrial Association of South Florida (CIASF)
• Licensed Real Estate Broker Florida
• National Association of Office and Industrial Properties (NAIOP)
• Realtor Association of Greater Miami and the Beaches (RAMB)
• Realtors Commercial Alliance (RCA)
• Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, Coconut Grove Chamber
ACHIEVEMENTS
• Tony achieved his CCIM certification in 1998. The CCIM is considered by many in the real estate industry to be a "masters level" education in real estate investment and analysis.
• Co-Star Group Power Broker Acknowledgement
EDUCATION
Tony earned a B.A. in finance from Florida International University.
