Liz Hart
Transaction Manager

Professional Experience
Associated Office
Liz Hart is a Transaction Manager on the global multi-market Corporate Advisory and Transaction team led by Bill Bonifas, Matt Cariello, and Kenzie Kiefer.
Liz supports the management of real estate transaction activities for the team’s national and international clients. Her responsibilities include lease analysis, portfolio planning, and helping clients to strategize, assess and implement solutions to their ownership and tenancy needs and business goals.
By leveraging the team’s extensive knowledge, years of experience, and CBRE services such as: portfolio optimization, transaction management, labor analytics, supply chain and transportation analysis, mergers & acquisition consulting, capital markets exploration, workplace strategy, financial consulting, economic incentive negotiations and more the team positions their clients to achieve the best possible outcomes for their real estate needs.
This Milwaukee-based team is one of the few Corporate Advisory and Transaction teams within CBRE offering portfolio-level transaction management and advisory services to large corporate occupiers. Together, this team strives to improve efficiencies and reduce annual real estate expenditures throughout their client’s leased/owned real estate portfolios – positively impacting their bottom lines.
Liz and her team actively represent corporate real estate users in over 40 countries. With more than $250,000,000 in transactional volume per year and 40+ million square feet of annual oversight and representation they are a top producing CBRE team.
Professional Affiliations / Accreditations
- Member, CBRE Advisory & Transaction Management Community
- Member, CBRE Women’s Network
Education
- B.A., Communication Processes, Emphasis in Journalism, University of Wisconsin – Green Bay
Select Clients
- A.O. Smith
- American Family Insurance
- Baird
- Briggs & Stratton
- Enerpac
- Franklin Energy
- Kohler
- Marcus Corporation
- MGIC
- Milliman
- Undisclosed 70-Country Portfolio
Team Overview
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Corporate Advisory & Transaction Services | Global Portfolio Solutions
What We Can Do for You
Corporate America is changing and so are we. As one of the few “hub” teams within CBRE offering portfolio management, our internationally-awarded team is comprised of CBRE’s top experts in the world of outsourced real estate solutions and is focused on delivering customized, strategic, value-add services to our clients. Real estate transactions are no longer reactionary, they are driven by factors such as incentives, econometric rent forecasting, long-term rent vs. own modeling, supply chain network design, and employee recruitment and retention – among many others. We are able to translate client data and industry trends into actionable real estate opportunities that positively affect your company’s bottom line.
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$250MM+
Yearly Transactional Volume
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$77MM+
Yearly Value Creation to Clients
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14:1
Ongoing Value-to-Fee Ratio
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40+
Countries Transacted In
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24/7
Availability to Our Clients
Client Strategy
Real estate costs are generally one of a business’s largest expenses. Our team can lower costs and optimize your real estate portfolio whether it be for a single location, or a global portfolio of owned/leased locations. Our industry-leading team is dedicated to bringing in world-class solutions to drive organizational value – no matter your size. We are consistently involved in many of the largest and most complex consulting, leasing, and sales transactions throughout the world.
Corporate Tenant Representation
- Current situation/business case analysis
- Portfolio optimization (regional, national, global)
- Site selection - industry leading approach for comparative studies
- Labor cost, quality, and longevity comparison
- Freight and transportation analysis
- Supply chain strategy and network design
- Municipal and state incentive negotiations
- Build-to-suit transaction services
- Lease versus buy analysis
- Financial consulting & analyses
- Lease administration
Corporate Owner Representation
- Sale/lease/sublease
- Sale/leaseback and net lease transactions
- Valuation studies
- Property management
- Land acquisitions
- Consulting services
- Portfolio sales
- Hold vs. sell analysis
- Project management
- Facilities management
Select Clients
- A.O. Smith
- American Family Insurance
- Baird
- Briggs & Stratton
- Davis & Kuelthau
- Enerpac
- Franklin Energy
- GE Healthcare
- GRAEF
- Jason, Inc.
- Johnson Financial Group
- Kohler
- Marcus Corporation
- MasterLock
- Medical College of Wisconsin
- MGIC
- Milliman
- Modine
- Northwestern Mutual
- PwC
- Spectrum/Time Warner
- Sensient Technologies
- Undisclosed Client (70 Country Portfolio 8MM+ Sq Ft)
- US Bank
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