Sarah Malcom
Executive Vice President, CBRE
Retail Real Estate Experience
21+ years
Hometown
Wippany, New Jersey
Connect
Twitter • Linkedin • NeuerSpace Blog
I co-lead the Institutional Properties Group in New Jersey for CBRE. Our team specializes in the sale of retail, office, and multifamily assets in the suburban tri-state area.
I actually started my career in 1998 as a retail leasing broker. I pivoted to office leasing shortly thereafter, but in 2017 when I pivoted, again, to capital markets, retail was again part of my practice.
I think the impact of e-commerce will continue to expand and evolve and how retailers adjust to the changes in consumer behavior and buying habits will shape the future. Looking further that the next several years, autonomous vehicles will have a huge impact on physical real estate, especially the approximately 168,000 gas stations in the US.
We now see online retailers like Warby Parker and Allbirds open physical locations to provide better service and access to their customers. That changed my mind about the relationship between online and street retail.
I have things to say and people sometimes find them interesting. My goal is to put out content that is meaningful to me that either makes a reader smarter or think about something in a way that they hadn’t before. I write a lot for young brokers and if my blog can help them move their career forward in the slightest way, that’s amazing.
I once represented a building that wouldn’t lease space to a tanning salon because of the health implications, but on the back side of the building, there was a cigar store. Can’t make that stuff up.