Tom Sitz
Executive Managing Director • United States
Tom Sitz
Executive Managing Director • United States
Tom joined Cushman & Wakefield in 2018 based in the firm’s global headquarters in downtown Chicago, Illinois. As a member of the firm’s national capital markets practice, Tom and his team advise institutional and private clients in the disposition, acquisition, recapitalization and financing of commercial real estate investment properties throughout Chicago and Midwest region. Tom is also a member of Cushman & Wakefield’s National Life Sciences Investment Group.
Throughout his career, Mr. Sitz has been involved in successful investment real estate transactions across Chicago and the Midwest region with combined value in excess of $10 billion and covering approximately 60 million square feet of product. Mr. Sitz and his team’s broad transactional expertise and experience ranges from trophy high-rise office towers to boutique creative office buildings as well as the full spectrum of suburban and secondary Midwest market transactions. While focused primarily on office investment real estate, Tom and his team’s deep transactional experience also includes life sciences/R&D/lab, industrial/flex, retail, mixed-use and land properties.
Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Tom was with CBRE’s Capital Markets Institutional Properties group where he and his team advised clients in the sale, recapitalization and financing of investment real estate throughout the Chicago area and broader Midwest region. Prior to joining CBRE, Mr. Sitz and his team were with Grubb & Ellis (now Newmark) in the firm’s Institutional Capital Markets Group.
- Greater Chicago Food Depository Investment Broker of the Year Finalist, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
- Greater Chicago Food Depository Investment Broker of the Year, 2017
- NAIOP Chicago Broker Transaction of the Year Finalist, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021
- NAIOP Chicago Broker Transaction of the Year, 2013, 2020, 2022
- Member of Urban Land Institute (ULI)
- Member of University of Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Association (WREAA)
- Member of Canine Therapy Corps (CTC)
- Angelo Gordon
- Ares Management
- ASB Capital Management
- Bank of America
- BentallGreenOak
- Blackstone
- CBRE Global Investors
- Credit Suisse
- Deka Immobilien
- Deutsche Bank
- DRA Advisors
- DWS RREEF
- Equity Commonwealth
- Heitman
- Hines
- John Hancock
- JPMorgan Asset Management
- KBS Realty
- Lone Star Funds
- MetLife
- Mirae Asset Global Investments
- R2 Companies
- Slate Asset Management
- Spear Street Capital
- Starwood Capital Group
- Sterling Bay Companies
- Stockbridge Capital Group
- The RMR Group
- Thor Equities Group
- Tishman Speyer
- TPG Real Estate
- W.P. Carey
- Walton Street Capital
- Wells Fargo
- Zurich Alternative Asset Management