Matt Hurlbut is a Managing Director within the Office Agency Leasing team in Newmark’s Dallas office. As a commercial real estate veteran with nearly 42 years in the industry, he specializes in landlord and tenant representation functions in Dallas and the surrounding areas.
Prior to joining Newmark, Hurlbut spent more than 20 years with Transwestern, where he served as a principal and was primarily responsible for leasing various office properties in multiple submarkets. While there, he closed over 1,500 deals totaling over 10 million square feet. He was also directly involved in business development, asset management, tenant representation and investment sales. Throughout his career, he has served in varying asset and investment management positions, where was responsible for managing more than 11 million square feet of office, retail, multifamily and industrial properties.
Hurlbut is adept at managing all aspects of property operations including developing business plans, debt restructuring, litigation management, operational and capital budgets, valuations and hold/sell strategies.
Partial List of Lease Transactions
As a landlord representative:
- Bank United (400,000 SF)
- Darling Ingredients (130,000 SF),
- Excel Telecommunications (200,000 SF)
- Ralph Lauren/Polo (175,000 SF)
- Darling Ingredients (130,000 SF)
- Columbia Gas (75,000 SF)
- Pegasus Systems (60,000 sf)
- DeGolyer & McNaughton (55,000 SF), Verizon (53,500 SF)
- Weaver & Tidwell (52,000 SF)
- US Secret Service (45,000 SF)
- Northwestern Mutual Life (44,000 SF)
- The Richards Group (44,000 SF)
- MHN Healthcare (44,000 SF)
- DTI (42,499 SF)
- Homeland Security (40,000 SF)
- World Ventures (38,244 SF)
- GE Capital (35,000 SF)
- HealthNet (32,000 SF)
- Hilton (30,000 SF)
- EMJ (27,000 SF)
- Pioneer Rx (26,000 SF)
- Lucent Technologies (25,000 SF)
- Morgan Stanley (24,000 SF)
- Regus (19,000 SF)
Professional Achievements
- Power Broker, D Magazine, Costar
- Most Lease Transactions closed, Transwestern, several years
Education
Hurlbut earned a BBA in Finance from Texas Tech University.