The Guide to Commercial Real Estate Brokerages in Nashville

The Guide to Nashville’s Commercial Real Estate Brokerages

Commercial real estate is a very specific niche.

If you’re looking to buy, sell, or lease commercial real estate in the Greater Nashville Area, you need to have a partner on your side that knows the market and has the contacts.

We’ve curated a list of Nashville’s most active commercial real estate brokerages, each of which specializes in varying degrees of commercial real estate.

Whether you’re on the hunt for your next office investment or need to lease retail space for your coffee shop, chances are good you’ll work with one of the shops below.

Here’s a list of Nashville’s commercial real estate brokerages.


 
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The Cauble Group

The Cauble Group is a boutique commercial real estate brokerage focused on the city’s urban core. Founded in 2018 by Nashville commercial real estate veteran, Tyler Cauble, this firm provides leasing, sales, and investment services for office, retail, industrial, and multifamily projects.

 

 
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Urban Grout

Urban Grout was founded by Vanderbilt-grad Chad Grout in 2011 and is hyper-focused on selling commercial property within Nashville’s urban core. Grout and his team are responsible for selling some of Nashville’s most unique properties, including the Neuhoff building in Germantown.

 

 
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CBRE

According to a survey done by The Lipsey Company in 2018, CBRE is the largest commercial real estate brokerage in the world. With revenues exceeding $13 billion and over 75,000 employees worldwide, CBRE has cemented its reputation as the go-to brokerage for multi-national corporations.

 

 
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Cushman & Wakefield

Cushman & Wakefield offers a wide variety of commercial property services, including agency leasing, asset services, capital markets, facility services, global occupier services, investment & asset management, project & development services, tenant representation, and valuation & advisory.

 

 
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Colliers International

Colliers’ Nashville office currently has over 60 employees, putting it towards the top of Nashville’s commercial real estate agencies in terms of employment. Their brokers offer a full-range of services to buyers, sellers, lessors, and lessees of commercial real estate in the Greater Nashville Area.

 

 
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Boyle Investment Company

Boyle opened their Nashville office in 2001 and quickly rose through the ranks to become one of the city’s premier commercial real estate development and acquisition firms. Boasting over 2 million square feet of commercial space and over 2.5x that currently in their pipeline, it’s no wonder this in-house brokerage team has won so many awards.

 

 
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Eakin Partners

Eakin Partners offers leasing, management, investment, and development opportunities throughout the Greater Nashville Area. Their office leasing team, lead by Barry Smith, is the most productive per agent in the Nashville market. You can find Eakin Partners leading the pack on office development whether you’re in downtown Nashville or Cool Springs.

 

 
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Chas. Hawkins Co.

Nashville’s leading industrial brokerage, Chas Hawkins Co., was founded in 1962. Their brokerage team of 25 agents has a strangle-hold on industrial real estate throughout Nashville, as well a strong presence on Music Row. However, although they focus on industrial property, Chas. Hawkins provides brokerage services for office, retail, industrial, and raw land.

 

 
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Avison Young

Avison Young, like a few of the commercial real estate brokerages above, offers their services globally. The Nashville office’s 60+ agents offer office, industrial, and retail brokerage, property management, valuation services, project management, capital markets and acquisition financing.

 

 
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Southeast Venture

Southeast Venture is one of a handful of locally-owned and operated commercial real estate companies in Nashville. In addition to offering commercial brokerage, SEV has a design and development team, which enables them to provide a full panel of services to investors, out of state developers, and builders unlike any other commercial real estate team in the area.

 

 
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Foundry Commercial

Foundy opened its Nashville office in 2014 after acquiring Crescent Communities and has since absorbed OakPoint Advisors. Throughout the Southeast, they offer commercial property management, project leasing, tenant representation and brokerage, project management and facilities management.

 

 
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Jones Lang LaSalle

Jones Lang LaSalle recently added property management and retail services to their existing line of office leasing, capital markets, and project & development services. This international commercial real estate brokerage is responsible for $16.3 billion in revenue annually and employees over 90,000 worldwide.

 
 

 
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Cherry & Associates

Cherry & Associates exclusively represents tenants and buyers of commercial real estate in Nashville. This focus allows their team of commercial real estate brokers to offer their clients a “no-conflict” approach to their advisory services.

 

 
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Equitable Property Company

Equitable Property Company was founded by Land Deleot in 2012 to provide a more flexible approach to commercial real estate than he’d experienced in his 14-year corporate stint. This boutique commercial real estate brokerage offers leasing and sales across a diverse portfolio of office, retail, and medical space.

 

 
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Robin Realty

Robin Realty has provided commercial property services to Middle Tennessee for over 70 years. Not only are they one of the oldest local commercial real estate agencies in Nashville, they also had the foresight to invest in commercial property in Nashville’s urban core when everyone else focused on the suburbs.

 

 
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H.G. Hill Realty

Starting out as a local grocery store chain, H.G. Hill became one of Nashville’s largest local commercial real estate agencies with large-scale sites along some of the city’s best corridors and intersections. Hill’s brokerage team focuses solely on leasing their available property.

 

 
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NAI Nashville Stanton Group

At the close of 2019, NAI Nashville and The Stanton Group announced a merger of the two brokerages. NAI Stanton offers a broad range of commercial real estate services, including brokerage and property management, without the “one size fits all” philosophy.

 

 
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Horrell Company

The Horrell Company was founded in 1943 as Horrell Refrigeration. In 1972 the company shifted its focus solely to commercial real estate in the Nashville area with a focus on industrial sales and leasing.

 

 
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Capstone Apartment Partners

Rising out of the Great Recession of 2008, Capstone Apartment Partners focuses on the sale of multifamily assets, including existing, new construction, and ground-up developments, throughout 11 states. Their product focus has lead to their achieving 10,000 units sold in a single year.

 

 
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Sagemont Real Estate

Sagemont focuses on office, retail, and medical properties in both Nashville and Louisville. Founded in 2018, the firm takes a data driven, people focused approach to their commercial real estate services.

 

 
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Blue Iris Real Estate

Blue Iris was founded in 2019 with a focus on Nashville’s urban neighborhoods. They take a research driven approach on the disposition of office, retail, industrial, hospitality, multifamily, and special assets.

 

 
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Carr Healthcare Realty

Carr Healthcare Realty takes a very niche approach to commercial real estate brokerage by providing tenant and buyer representation for healthcare businesses. Their services include site selection, lease vs. purchase analyses, and relocations.

 

 
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Gorney Realty

Gorney Realty has over 30 years of experience providing commercial real estate solutions for mixed-use and retail leasing & consulting. Gorney has been responsible for lease-ups in some of Nashville’s hottest emerging neighborhoods, most notably The Gulch.

 

 
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Highwoods Properties

Highwoods is one of the largest owners of office space in the Greater Nashville Area. Their in-house brokerage team represents Class A availability from downtown Nashville to Cool Springs.

 

 
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Brookside Properties

Brookside is largely responsible for developing Cool Springs into the massive commercial real estate district - mostly office and retail - it is today. Their brokerage team offers commercial leasing, sales, and investment advisory for office and retail real estate.

 
 

 
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Alliant Commercial Realty Services

Alliant Realty offers a wide range of commercial real estate services with a focus on commercial property development. Since 2003, they’ve been committed to assisting their clients throughout various aspects of the commercial real estate process.

 

 
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Katz & Associates

Nashville’s Katz & Associates team carries on the company’s vision of serving retailers, restaurants, and landlords in leasing & sales. This commercial real estate agency has a strong presence on the East Coast with over 100 tenants under representation.

 

 
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Turner & Associates Realty

Turner & Associates Realty is a commercial reale state development firm focused on site selection for Dollar General. In addition to selling DG investments, their commercial agents lease and manage the commercial properties they develop.

 

 
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Baker Storey McDonald

Baker Storey McDonald focuses on large-scale retail real estate, on both tenant and landlord representation. With a presence in the Central South, they’re responsible for shopping center revitalization in Murfreesboro and big box retailers across Middle Tennessee.

 

 
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TenantBase

TenantBase exclusively represents tenants looking to lease office space. Specializing in space under 5,000 square feet, this brokerage offers an online platform where businesses can search for available spaces that fit their specifications.

 

 
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HBRE

HBRE focuses solely on medical commercial real estate, which is very helpful for medical professionals since they have very specific needs. Their team offers leasing, sales, and investments for physician groups and medical investors across the country.

 

 
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Marcus & Millichap

Marcus & Millichap is a national brokerage focused on commercial real estate investments and financing. The Nashville office has offerings throughout the Southeast in office, retail, industrial, multifamily, and self-storage real estate.