Seena Stein
Principal - Brokerage, Newmark
Rutherford, NJ 07070
Phone (201) 460-5104
Specialties
Tenant Rep, Tenant Rep (Office)
Property Types
Office
Markets
Northern New Jersey
Bio
Seena Stein is the founding partner of Newmark Knight Frank's New Jersey office. She possesses over 30 years of experience in commercial real estate and has represented such companies as Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Citigroup, Equitable Life Assurance, Forest Laboratories, Inc., Goldman Sachs & Co., JP Morgan Chase & Co., Knight Trading Group and Morgan Stanley. In addition, she has represented property owners such as Lefrak, Mack-Cali and UBS, among numerous others. She is adept at all aspects of commercial real estate, from tenant representation and leasing agency work to investment sales.
Over the course of her career, Ms. Stein has completed many notable transactions including: a 266,000-square-foot transaction for Knight Trading Group, a 244,356-square-foot lease on behalf of Equitable Life Assurance, a 205,000-square-foot lease for Forest Laboratories, Inc., a 157,685-square-foot investment sale on behalf of JEMB Realty and numerous other investment sales.
Prior to joining NKF in 1994, Ms. Stein was senior vice president and director of sales and leasing for Jacobson, Goldfarb & Tanzman Associates (JGT) for more than eight years. Previously, she was vice president and director of sales and leasing for Helmsley Spear. Ms. Stein also owned her own company, Seena Stein, Inc., which specialized in corporate real estate.
Ms. Stein is a founding member of Industrial/Commercial Real Estate Women (ICREW) and is listed in Marquis Who's Who and Who's Who of American Women. She has been honored on numerous occasions by such organizations as Business News, New Jersey's Who's Who 2002, NJ Business Leaders and Women Business Leaders 2001. In 2012, she received the Humanitarian Award from the American Conference on Diversity and the Chairman's Award from NAIOP. In 2010, she was named Commercial Real Estate Woman of the Year by Crossing Borders.
Ms. Stein is a past president of the New Jersey Chapter of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR). She currently serves on the boards of directors of the Industrial & Office Real Estate Brokers Association (IOREBA) and NAIOP. She is also a member of the New Jersey Division of CoreNet and a trustee of the Monmouth Real Estate Institute at Monmouth University. Additionally, Ms. Stein serves on the president's council of both Monmouth University and Purdue University and on the board of trustees of Jersey City Medical Center-Barnabas Health, Jersey City, New Jersey.
Ms. Stein holds a master's degree in information science and a Master of Business Administration degree from Rutgers University. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University.
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