Professional Experience
Associated Office
Jonathan Beard is an Executive Vice President with National Partners - Northeast. Based in Baltimore, Jonathan has over 25 years of real estate experience, specializing in valuation and disposition of investment properties, land sales, and joint ventures throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.
Mr. Beard is a member of CBRE National Partners, a partnership that delivers superior strategy and execution over the industrial property life cycle. Located in the 12 key logistics hubs, the 119 investment sales and support professionals connect local market insight to a national capital markets perspective. Strengthened with a fully integrated debt platform, the National Partners Team achieves remarkable results for their national, regional and local clients. In 2023, the team successfully completed 444 transactions totalling 118.6 million square feet with an aggregate value of $12.8 billion.
Before CBRE, Jonathan worked in development for Struever Brothers, Eccles & Rouse, Inc. leading Asset Management for the company’s two million square foot mixed use, commercial portfolio. Before Struever Brothers, Eccles & Rouse, Inc., Jonathan spent over eight years with Allegis Group, Inc. where he served as an Assistant Vice President in their Strategic Investments Group. Beard played a crucial role in identifying strategic acquisitions for the company as well as expanding its real estate portfolio.
Education
- B.B.A., Loyola University Maryland, 1994
- M.S., Finance, Loyola University Maryland, 2000
Pro Affiliations & Accreditations
- Licensed Real Estate Salesperson, Maryland & Virginia
- Board of Governors – BCC (2021-Present)
- Loyola University Maryland Sellinger School of Business – MBA Mentorship Program (2016-2019, 2021)
- Chairman-Annual Cathedral Open (2015-2018)
Achievements
- CBRE Top 20% Producer Nationally (2017, 2020 & 2021)
- Senior Member, CBRE National Institutional Group
Significant Transactions
- Merritt Properties
Tower Logistics Center
Sale
859,900 SF - Link Logistics
I-81 Mid-Atlantic 2-Pack
Sale
758,003 SF - Trammell Crow Company
North East Gateway
Sale
716,490 SF - UBS/Becknell
Becknell Portfolio
Sale
687,996 SF - Equus Capital Partners
VIP Logistics Center
Sale
339,450 SF - Sycamore Partners
7441 Candlewood Road
Sale
253,330 SF - Principal Global Investors
I-66 Logistics Center
Sale
121,672 SF
Represented Clients
- Angelo Gordon
- Ares Management
- Artemis
- ATAPCO
- Beatty Development
- Blackrock
- Cabot Properties
- Clarion Partners
- Diamond Realty
- DWS
- Equus Capital Partners
- Exeter Property Group
- First Industrial
- High Street
- Hillwood
- LaSalle Investment Management
- Link
- Merritt Properties
- Northwestern Mutual Life
- PGIM
- Principal Global Investors
- Prologis
- Sagard
- TA Associates Realty
- Trammel Crow