Chris Shaffer joined the company in 1996 and specializes in the leasing and sale of office/R&D and warehouse properties. Throughout his career, Mr. Shaffer has successfully completed more than 850 transactions totaling more than 10.0 million square feet and sales exceeding over a half billion dollars.
Prior to joining the company, he worked for 10 years with CB Commercial’s San Jose and Fremont offices. While with CB Commercial, Mr. Shaffer was instrumental in implementing and contributing to the vast internal Fremont databank.
Mr. Shaffer successfully completed one of the largest R&D leases in the history of Fremont when he represented landlords TMG Partners and JER Partners in their 2007 lease to Boston Scientific for 360,772 square feet. He also completed one of the largest Silicon Valley transactions in 2005 when Renco Properties sold Bayside Technology Park, a 16-building project totaling more than 1.0 million square feet, to TMG Partners and JER Partners. Mr. Shaffer’s expertise in southern Alameda County and northern Santa Clara County is second to none.
Partial Client List
- BioPharmX
- Brocade
- Franmar
- Hitachi
- Virage Logic
- Kawasaki
- Lam Research Corp.
- MKS Instruments
- The Dow Chemical Co.
Partial List of Property Owners
- Dollinger Properties
- Equus Capital Partners TMG Partners
- Harvest Properties
- J.E. Robert Companies
- Lane Partners
- LBA Realty
- Pacific Coast Capitol Partners
- Principal Financial Corp.
- Remedy Properties
- Renco Properties
- Spear Street
- South Bat Development Co.
- TA Realty
- Time Equities
- Trammell Crow Co.
- Vector Management Group
Education
Mr. Shaffer graduated from California State University, Chico.