Commercial
Brokerage
Services

Our experienced commercial brokerage team provides institutional quality fiduciary advisory services to ensure our clients achieve their commercial real estate objectives. We are service oriented practitioners and are proud to deliver white glove service with institutional grade results.

Leadership Team

William Maxwell

Partner

William’s brokerage specialties include commercial property acquisitions and dispositions on behalf of operating companies and investment firms as well as land assemblage expertise assisting local and national real estate developers. Additionally, William regularly performs tenant representation and landlord representation services, 1031 tax deferred exchange sales, lease negotiations and market analysis services for his clients.

Brick Bryant

Managing Partner / Broker in Charge

As Managing Partner, Brick has primary leadership over all aspects of Colony Commercial. His impact can be most felt on the brokerage side of the business, where he serves as the firm’s Broker-in-Charge. As one of the top producing brokers in the region for years, as recognized by CRCBR, his market knowledge is unsurpassed. A rare native to Charlotte, Brick has seen the city evolve and mature firsthand over the past few decades and is excited about where the market is headed in the future. Brick has extensive leasing and sales experience, and enjoys getting to know his clients, and helping to understand and meet their objectives.

Chad Markey

Broker

Chad brings a diverse skillset and extensive commercial real estate brokerage and operational knowledge to Colony Commercial. As a broker at Colony Commercial, Chad is charged with helping grow the company’s specialty commercial services platform while delivering best-in-class client centric solutions.

Chad specializes in commercial property leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, and site selection on behalf of his clients. He has extensive experience working with private investors, family offices, developers, and large cap private equity investors. Prior to joining Colony, Chad worked at a national investment sales firm where he handled 1031 tax deferred exchanges, build-to-suit developments, and investment sales for his clients throughout the United States. Most recently, Chad was responsible for the asset management of a Charlotte industrial and retail portfolio on behalf of a local family office.

A rare native Charlottean, Chad has witnessed the city’s evolution and growth firsthand and is excited about the future of the market. A graduate of The University of Georgia, in his free time, Chad can often be found cheering on the Bulldogs or exploring Charlotte’s ever-growing brewery and culinary scene with friends, family, and his Australian Shepherd, Goose.

Services Provided

Landlord & Developer Representation

Landlord Developer Representation

As entrepreneurs, we approach our listing assignments with an owner’s mentality and implement investors’ strategies with resolute focus. Our market knowledge, experience and grassroots efforts result in tailored solutions with an unwavering commitment to helping clients create and seize opportunities. We strive to deliver institutional quality expertise in a boutique package.

Representative Listings, Historical and Current

30,000 SF Flex Building - South Charlotte

140,000 SF Flex, South Point Business Park

20,000 SF Flex Building - West Charlotte

560,000 SF Industrial Business Park, Concord

50,000 SF Industrial Building - South Charlotte

Tenant & Buyer Representation

Whether buying or leasing commercial properties, complex decisions with significant cost implications are in play. Building owners are generally sophisticated real estate practitioners with dedicated Landlord brokerage representation. Therefore, a dedicated and exclusive Tenant Representative is crucial to ensure a company’s operational goals are achieved in an economical manner. We assist companies in securing facilities specific to their operational needs and utilize market knowledge and intel to drive economic benefits for our clients.

Our Tenant & Buyer Representation Services include:

Functional needs assessment

Market analysis and site selection
Financial analysis
Space planning and utilization study
Negotiation of financial terms

Contract negotiations
Service vendor sourcing
Municipal code and environmental compliance guidance
Construction oversight management

Building Sales

One of our core brokerage service lines is assisting clients in acquiring and selling commercial properties. We have an extensive background in brokering property sales and have been a trusted building sales resource to companies small and large, local and international. Our experienced team members have consulted and brokered single building sales as small as 5,000 SF and institutional quality assets around 275,000 SF.

Land Sales & Site Selection Services

We uncover untapped potential by assisting clients survey challenging markets for undeveloped tracts of land to accomplish operational facility and investment development interests. Regardless of the size requirement, all of our client’s needs are paramount and will command our fullest attention.

Representative Land Sales:

**25 Acre Land Sale for Industrial Development**

**45 Acre Land Assemblage for Industrial Development**

Investment Sales

The capital markets arena is a competitive landscape and deals are hard to source. We help our clients uncover unique investment opportunities and we are often privy to off market opportunities to help our clients place capital without all the competition. Whether you need assistance in sourcing and underwriting an asset or have goals to harvest existing investment holdings, we are prepared to perform.

Development Services

Whether your operational requirements demand a newly built specialty facility or if the market is void of desirable real estate, we can provide development services to deliver the exact facility for your operational and investment goals. We assist clients with soup to nuts development services from land acquisition to planning, project funding, construction management and final delivery.