Established in 1995, Public Properties is a specialized commercial real estate firm providing federal government lease transactions and real estate advisory services to government agencies, government contractors, and private sector property owners. The firm’s senior professionals have over 40 years combined commercial real estate experience with 25 years devoted exclusively to federal government leasing and real estate services. Public Properties has active leasing projects in over 20 states and Puerto Rico, and real estate services contracts throughout the United States.

Public Properties creates value in real estate transactions through strategic solutions, negotiation, and administration of property/lease acquisitions, dispositions, lease renewals, space buyout, downsizing, agency consolidations, build-to-suits, lease administration reconciliations, and project management.

The firm provides such services on a national basis to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) through a National Leasing and Real Estate Services Contract and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration through a Real Estate Broker Services contract and a Real Estate Support Services Contract. Public Properties has also provided lease transaction and real estate advisory services to federal agency clients such as the General Services Administration, U.S. Department of State, and the Federal Communications Commission.

Public Properties is also retained by private sector companies to acquire, reposition, and/or manage a single government lease or a portfolio of government leases. The firm has represented properties owned or managed by companies such as Hines G.S. Properties, Monument Realty, Prudential Real Estate Investors, CFH Industrial Trust, Gale & Wentworth/Morgan Stanley Joint Venture, Lend Lease Real Estate Investments, Morgan Stanley US Real Estate Investing, B. F. Saul Company, Bernstein Management Corporation, PS Business Parks, The Goldstar Group, Transwestern Investment Company LLC, Trammell Crow Company, The Matan Companies, Jones Lang LaSalle, Cassidy Pinkard, and Paramount Group.

The firm directly supports both government and private sectors clients and coordinates projects with government realty specialists, contracting officers of federal agencies, and, when applicable, the General Services Administration to facilitate transactions in a timely, effective, and efficient manner.