Brent Palmer joined Howard Ecker + Company in 2009 to co-head the Miami office. He has an MBA in international business, concentrating in real estate and finance. Mr. Palmer specializes in representing corporate tenants in commercial office lease transactions, business development, commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions, representing real estate investors and financing real estate. In addition, he is responsible for managing the Miami office and tracking the South Florida commercial real estate market.

Previously, Mr. Palmer worked at LNR Partners in the Asset Management group.LNR is a diversified commercial real estate company located in Miami Beach, Florida. At LNR, Mr. Palmer worked on underwriting and asset management of office, retail, hotel, and industrial loans on properties all across the United States. LNR is the largest special servicer of Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS) loans in the country.

Prior to his experience at LNR, Mr. Palmer worked in New York City as a mortgage broker, financing residential and commercial real estate, at Park Avenue Mortgage Company, and at Estreich & Company. Through these work experiences he had the opportunity to be involved in numerous high profile real estate transactions, including the financing of the Empire State Building, among others.

Mr. Palmer graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.S. in Economics and a minor in Business. He also received an M.B.A. from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina in Columbia,South Carolina with a focus on International Business, and a concentration in Spanish. While in business school Mr. Palmer studied abroad in Spain, Mexico and South America where he took classes in Spanish and had an internship in Barcelona with a boutique hotel developer/management company. His experiences from abroad and in school have proven to be beneficial and provide him the expertise to understand the diverse intricacies of the Miami real estate market and office tenant representation in South Florida.

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