High-rise commercial buildings

More Regions 

Clay Sidner and Jeremy Hakala

Company: 

Newmark

Leasing Total

350,000-plus square feet

Handled 35 lease transactions totaling more than 350,000 square feet

Represented one side of a $63-million office sale

Based in the firm’s Miami office, Newmark Senior Directors Clay Sidner and Jeremy Hakala are members of the company’s top national advisory team. Within the past year, the duo handled 35 lease transactions totaling 350,000 square feet. Sidner and Hakala also represented one side of a $62.5-million office transaction.

Notable leasing transactions included Greenberg Traurig’s 49,000 square feet at the Bank of America Plaza (Fort Lauderdale), Varonis Systems’ 18,353-square-foot transaction at 801 Brickell (Miami) and WR Berkley’s 21,363 square-foot lease at 600 Brickell Ave. (Miami).

These are some of the reasons we selected Newmark’s Clay Sidner and Jeremy Hakala as Connect CRE’s Florida & Gulf Coast Top Broker Award winners for 2025. These awards recognize industry professionals who have demonstrated the highest standards and transaction volumes in investment sales and leasing.

Connect

Inside The Story

Newmark's Clay SidnerNewmark's Jeremy Hakala

About Amy Wolff Sorter

I love content. I love writing it, visualizing it, and manipulating it to fit into different formats. I have years of experience in working with content, both as creator and editor. The content I create and edit provides assistance with many goals, ranging from lead generation, to developing street cred through well-timed thought-leadership pieces. Content skills include, but aren't limited to, articles and blogs, e-mails, promotional collateral, infographics, e-books and white papers, website copy and more.