Todd Barton is a Senior Vice President in CBRE’s Industrial Properties group in Atlanta and is a part of Atlanta’s premier industrial owner representation team for the Southeast. Mr. Barton is recognized as an expert in the field of industrial real estate, having completed numerous transactions involving large, complex bulk warehouse and manufacturing properties. Mr. Barton and his team combine their market knowledge and significant experience base with CBRE’s industry leading platform to deliver exceptional results.
Recognized for his ability to mesh analytical market statistics with real time “in the trenches” market intelligence, Mr. Barton regularly interacts with the highest levels of leadership in the industrial arena. Barton and his team have consistently produced market reports that provide clients with a finger on the true pulse of the Southeastern industrial market.
Over the past 27 years, Mr. Barton has consulted leading industrial developers, investors and users in the strategy and implementation of national marketing programs, the repositioning of troubled assets and opportunistic property acquisitions. Mr. Barton has been particularly successful in the marketing of large industrial properties in metro Atlanta and throughout the Southeast, having completed some of the largest transactions on record. In the past five years, the team has completed more than 300 lease / sale transactions totaling approximately 32 million square feet with an aggregate transaction value in excess of $700,000,000.
Mr. Barton is an Atlanta native, active in his community and is married with two children.
Education
- B..S., in Business Administration, Berry College
Professional Affiliations / Accreditations
- Licensed Real Estate Salesperson, Georgia
- Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors
- Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR), Member
- SIOR Georgia Chapter 2016 President and Member Board of Directors
- Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors “Top 10” Producer 2003, 2005, 2010, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
- Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors #1 Industrial Landlord Producer 2019, 2022
- Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors Silver Phoenix Award Recipient
- CoStar Power Broker Award (Multiple Years)
Significant Transactions
- Prologis
Sale
117 Acres
- Oakmont Industrial Group
Lease
1,638,000 SF
- TPA Group
Lease
1,129,750 SF
- Hillwood Investment Properties
Sale/Lease
962,280 SF
- CalSTRS
Lease
832,595 SF
- IDI Logistics
Lease
623,328 SF
- Invesco
Lease
492,048 SF
- First Industrial
Lease
477,000 SF
- CBRE Global Investors
Sale
415,000 SF
Clients Represented
- AEW
- Alpha Industrial / KKR
- Artemis Real Estate Partners
- Cabot Properties
- CBRE Investment Management
- Core5 Industrial Partners
- Crow Holdings
- DHL Supply Chain
- EastGroup Properties
- Exeter Property Group
- Hillwood
- IDI
- Invesco
- Johnson Development
- Link Logistics
- Mapletree
- New York Life
- Nuveen Real Estate
- Oakmont Industrial Group
- Panattoni
- PGIM Real Estate
- Prologis
- RREEF
- TA Realty
- TPA Group
- Trammell Crow