Jeffrey Kernochan
EVP/Managing Director, Fischer
Los Angeles, CA 90045
Broker / Managing Director
Phone (310) 643-5100 x127
Mobile (310) 466-9739
Broker / Managing Director
Specialties
Investment Sales Broker, Tenant Rep (Flex)
Property Types
Industrial, Land, Office, Retail, Flex, Specialty, Multi-Family, Health Care
Markets
Inland Empire (California), Los Angeles, Orange County (California), San Diego, Seattle/Puget Sound, East Bay/Oakland
Bio
Jeff’s career has focused on providing quality corporate real estate services on a regional and national basis. In addition to his expertise in California, he has negotiated transactions in thirty different states as well as in Puerto Rico and Canada. His long list of repeat clients includes BASF, FedEx, Del Monte, Nabisco, Sony, and Expeditors International.
Jeff was, from 1987 to 1997, Vice President of Pacific Business Properties which sold its interest to Fischer & Company of Dallas, Texas in January, 1998. Fischer & Company established Fischer Pacific, Inc., a California Corporation, and Jeff was promoted to Executive Vice President and principal in January of 1998.
Jeff is a member of the American Industrial Real Estate Association (AIR) and is an Executive Board Member of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR), an international group of highly skilled real estate professionals. He is also a member of CoreNet, an international organization of corporate real estate executives and service providers. He served as the Chairman of the “Friends of the Academy” which provides ongoing community support for the Los Angeles Police Department. His representation of the City of Los Angeles in the $13 million acquisition of a new Police Recruit Training Center in Westchester saved the City $40 million and five years time over the previously recommended alternative.
Jeff has been honored with the following industry awards:
- Most Cooperative Transactions in L.A. County – SIOR - 2001
- Largest Cooperative Industrial Transaction in L.A. County – A.I.R. – 2000
- Largest Co-op Office Transaction in L.A. County – A.I.R. – 1999
- Largest Industrial transaction in L.A. County – SIOR – 1997
- Largest Office transaction in L. A. County – A.I.R. – 1997
- Largest Cooperative transaction in L.A. County – SIOR – 1996
- Largest Industrial transaction in L.A. County - SIOR – 1995
- Largest Cooperative transaction in L. A. County – SIOR – 1995
- Largest Office Transaction in L.A. County - SIOR – 1994
Selected Transactions:
- Sale of 955,000 sf office/industrial buildings, Hawthorne, CA (10/02)
- Lease of 335,000 sf industrial building, Ontario, CA (12/01)
- Sale of 300,000 sf Telecom building, Hawthorne, CA (7/00)
- Lease of 55,000 sf of office, Santa Monica, CA (7/00)
- Lease of 52,000 sf creative space, El Segundo, CA (3/00)
- Lease of 65,000 sf office Los Angeles, CA (2/00)
- Lease 563,000 sf industrial facility in Mira Loma, CA (7/99)
- Build to suit 126,000 sf industrial in Van Nuys, CA (6/98)
- Lease of 110,000 sf office in El Segundo, CA (10/97)
- Sale of 46 acres in El Segundo, CA – (5/97)
- Lease 330,000 sf distribution facility in Mira Loma, CA (4/96)
- Sale of 185,000 sf off.bldg. on 14 acres in WLA, CA for L.A.P.D.(5/94)
Jeff is a native of California. He is a graduate of UCLA with a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics. His undergraduate education included "Semester at Sea" which enabled him to study the culture and business communities of twelve countries around the world. Jeff keeps his Real Estate skills refined through continuing education and holds a sales and brokers license in California. Jeff currently lives in Manhattan Beach with his wife Kathy, his son, Connor and daughter, Katrina.
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