Power Broker
Ben Stern
Vice Chairman, Newmark
Palo Alto, CA 94301
Ben advises clients on the development and implementation of real estate strategies and headquarter planning.
Phone (650) 688-8509
Ben advises clients on the development and implementation of real estate strategies and headquarter planning.
Property Types
Industrial, Office, Retail, Flex
Markets
New York City, San Francisco, East Bay/Oakland, South Bay/San Jose
Languages
English
Bio
One of the most active agents in Northern California, Ben Stern is a top-producing agent for Newmark. As a vice chairman in the Palo Alto office, Ben advises clients on the development and implementation of real estate strategies and headquarter planning. His clients range from Fortune 500 companies to startups looking for their first facility.
Ben joined the firm in 2004, bringing with him an entrepreneurial background in brokerage, technology, financial services and healthcare. Since then, he has become one of the company’s top-producing agents, having directly managed the successful completion of over 1,200 headquarters leases, ground leases, build-to-suits, sales and acquisitions totaling 15 million square feet and worth more than $4 billion in consideration.
Prior to Newmark, Ben founded and sold a software company, CenterPoint Care Solutions. He also spent four years leading a sales team at IBM/Rational Software. In 1999, Ben founded Capital Security Resources, a mergers and acquisitions brokerage. He also co-founded an investment bank in the security industry, Pelican Funding Corporation.
Regionally, Ben ranks in the top 5 among all brokers (600+) every year since 2010. In 2011, the Silicon Valley Business Journal named Ben one of the top 40 business executives in Silicon Valley under the age of 40 (40 Under 40).
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