David Baird
Managing Director • United States
Local Office:
One East Pratt Street
Suite 700
Baltimore, MD 21202
United States
Office: +1 (410) 685-9240
David Baird
Managing Director • United States
Professional Expertise
David W. Baird is Managing Director and the former Market Leader of Cushman & Wakefield’s Baltimore, Maryland office, and now leads the Strategic Advisory Services (SAS) practice group in Baltimore. In this role, he is responsible for providing consulting, advisory and transaction services for clients seeking to transform and optimize their real estate assets. He joined Cushman & Wakefield in 2007 from Trammell Crow Company, where he was Director of Brokerage for the Baltimore, Maryland and Richmond, Virginia offices.
Mr. Baird has 35 years of commercial real estate experience in Maryland, national, and international markets, representing tenants, landlords, investors, developers, healthcare systems and not-for-profit organizations. Mr. Baird has advised clients on some of the most significant transactions in the market and has been recognized as a CoStar Power Broker, Baltimore Business Journal Top 25 Broker on numerous occasions, and has received two Governor’s Citations for Business Development. He is recognized as a market leader in land and investment sales and complex development transactions.
Clients
- Alcoa
- Alexandria Real Estate Equities
- The Aspen Institute
- AT&T
- BP Amoco
- BPG Ltd.
- Exelon Corporation
- FILA USA
- FLUOR, Inc.
- Goucher College
- Home Depot USA
- National Aquarium
- New Boston Fund
- Republic Technologies, LLC
- TruServ, Inc.
- University of MD Medical Systems
- W.R. Grace (global representation)
- Verizon
- Various Religious Organizations
Education, Memberships & Awards
- B.A. with honors, Tufts University
- University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland
- CRE designation (member, The Counselors of Real Estate and CRE Consulting Corps.)
- FRICS designation (Fellow, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors); Chartered Management Consultancy Surveyor
- Member-Urban Land Institute (ULI)/NAIOP/CoreNet Global
- Cushman & Wakefield’s Washington Area Leadership Award, 2007 and Virtus Award in 2011
He received a Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) Designation and is a Licensed Maryland Real Estate Associate Broker. He has completed post graduate Investment, Planning, Development and Marketing studies and has authored numerous articles and presentations on real estate trends and topics.
Mr. Baird was an Advisor for the Governor’s Committee on Logistics, Transportation, and the Economy. He also co-authored the Governor’s Port Land Use Study, was a founding member of the Maryland Distribution Council, and an Advisory Board Member at Johns Hopkins University Policy Institute Committee on Maryland’s Economy. He was a former President of the Greater Baltimore Board of Realtors and member of the Board of Directors for the Maryland Association of Realtors. He serves as an MBA advisor for the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Colvin Real Estate Institute, and is a Class Facilitator for Christopher’s Place Employment Academy at Catholic Charities of Baltimore.
My Listings
For Sale • Land
Shofers Portfolio
930 S Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21230
United States
Sale Price: Negotiable
For Sale • Land
1034 & 1116 Hull Street
1034 & 1116 Hull Street
Baltimore, MD 21230
United States
Sale Price: Negotiable
For Sale • Warehouse/Distribution
West College Ave Portfolio
500 West College Avenue
York, PA 17401
United States
Sale Price: Negotiable