Matt Swanson, MRICS, currently serves as an Executive Vice President in Newmark Valuation & Advisory’s Irvine, California office and serves as the Southern California industrial team leader.
Swanson focuses on the valuation of institutional industrial, office, R&D, cold storage, life science, studios, and complex property types throughout Southern California. Clients include commercial banks, developers, corporations, individual property owners, public agencies, insurance companies and legal firms. Assignments are used for financing, litigation, portfolio management and financial planning. He has worked on numerous REIT portfolios for acquisition and financing purposes.
Earlier in his career, Swanson was a Senior Acquisitions Analyst with CBRE Investment Management, Strategic Partners. He pursued opportunistic acquisitions that focused on purchasing, repositioning, and selling trophy grade institutional real estate in target CBD markets. Swanson participated in underwriting several billion in potential acquisitions across various product types and strategies in the U.S.
Licenses and Designations
- Member, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS)
- Certified General Real Estate Appraiser, State of California
- Licensed Real Estate Broker, State of California
Education
Swanson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the University of California, Riverside.