Professional Experience
Associated Office
Mr. Turner is a licensed real estate broker and specializes in helping law, accounting, insurance and other professional service firms, technology, biotech and healthcare companies and a wide variety of real estate users negotiate advantageous space transactions. He also assists owners and investors in a wide variety of property types. In addition, Mr. Turner has significant experience representing public entities in large consulting and public private partnership projects, locally and around the country. He has negotiated major ground lease transactions for such entities as the cities of Annapolis, MD and Miami, FL, and North County Transit District in San Diego, CA. Mr. Turner also consults for the University of California, the Port of San Diego and the Tennessee Valley Authority. Prior to CBRE, Mr. Turner was an award winning commercial real estate attorney at Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch. For 17 years he served as the firm's Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer. Formerly the leader of the firm's Real Estate Team, throughout his management efforts he actively maintained his broad-based commercial real estate transactional practice. He has handled a huge array of commercial real estate transactions, dealing with virtually every property type. He has had a particular emphasis on commercial leasing matters, from the perspective of both landlords and tenants, including some of the largest transactions in the region.
Career Transition
After a 35+ year career as a commercial real estate lawyer, Mr. Turner has successfully transitioned to the world of commercial brokerage and consulting. He has earned virtually every real estate law award out there, including San Diego’s Best Lawyers, California Super lawyers and Best Lawyers in America. He has also been recognized with the San Diego Bar Association’s Outstanding Attorney award for his contributions to the community and as California Law Firm Leader of the Year for playing a key role in building San Diego's largest law firm. While Mr. Turner does not provide legal services for our CBRE clients, he brings a wealth of dealmaking knowledge and experience gained as a trusted advisor on the legal side to best position CBRE clients for advantageous transactions in the real estate market. His negotiation skills have added great value to his broad-based clientele.