"Many organizations just pull a list of all available space and make you figure out which one fits your firm's needs. EDGE actually listened to our requirements and provided our organization with a summary of options that was in our target location, size and cost."
- Samuel Seymour, COO, Centurum
Joseph A. Sutton, Jr., Managing
Partner
Mr. Sutton began his 25 year commercial real estate career in 1985 as a leasing agent for the Maryland branch of Shannon and Luchs Commercial. In 1991, Mr. Sutton branched off with Robert Scheer to form Scheer Partners (SPI). As a leasing agent, Mr. Sutton focused on landlord and tenant representation and quickly aggregated the largest office and flex portfolio (4mm sf) within the organization.
During the real estate downturn of the early 90's, investment sale activity slowed causing many of the top investment sales brokers in the region to leave the industry. Mr. Sutton recognized that the broker flight created opportunity and in 1994 launched the Investment Sales Group at SPI. Remarkably, during his first year as an investment sales advisor, Mr. Sutton completed more investment sale transactions in Maryland than any of his local and national competitors and since then has earned several industry “Top Broker” and “Transactions of the Year”. Mr. Sutton formed Sutton & Associates in 1997 to continue his real estate investment and advisory work. Again seeing opportunity in 2002 and having an interest to buy and own real estate for his own account, Mr. Sutton acquired in excess of $150 million of highly successful commercial real estate assets.
Over the years, Mr. Sutton has completed over $3 billion of real estate transactions. The transactions have included highly complex Sale/Lease Backs, Structured Financings, Synthetic Leases, Tax Structuring, Bondable Leases, Credit Lease Transactions, Build to Suits, TIC Structures, Syndications, 1031 Fulfillment, and Joint Ventures. He has also authored articles published in such journals such as Black’s Guide, Washington Business Journal, and Washington Office Magazine.
Mr. Sutton (51) holds a Masters in Petroleum Geology from West Virginia University and resides in Potomac, Maryland with his wife Nazzie of 18 years and his two boys, Jake (15) and Hunter (13). As an avid outdoorsman and bicyclist, his greatest pleasure is his family.
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