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2026 Top Broker Awards
California
- Avison Young’s Cody Lerner Negotiates 22 Transactions Totaling Over 1.2 Million Square Feet
- CBRE Partners Kyle Kovac and Michael Taquino Close $1.8 Billion
- CBRE SoCal Team Handles 9 Multifamily Transactions Totaling $915 Million
- CBRE’s Bennett Robinson Closes 48 Transactions Totaling Over 1.7 Million Square Feet
- CBRE’s Chris Shepherd Oversees Transactions Totaling Over 3 Million Square Feet
- Cushman ＆ Wakefield’s Marc Renard Leads Team in $989-Million Sales Volume
- IPA’s Northern California Team Closes Deals Totaling over $2 Billion
- Steve Golubchik with Newmark Leads Team to 32 Sales Totaling $3.3 Billion
- The Taylor Team of CBRE Negotiates Over 4.1 Million Square Feet
- Colliers’ Mark Lewkowitz and Evan McDonald Negotiate 75 Leasing Deals
CBRE Partners Kyle Kovac and Michael Taquino Close $1.8 Billion
Sales Total
$1.83 billion
Partners since 2009, Kyle Kovac and Michael Taquino currently lead CBRE’s Capital Markets practice across the San Francisco Bay Area. During 2025, the duo closed $1.83 billion in transactions.
Transaction highlights included Sutter Health’s $450-million, one-million-square-foot acquisition of Emery Yards to build a hospital. The team also represented Nuveen in the sale of its 220,000-square-foot office property at 88 Kearny St. to LendingClub.
During Q4 2025, Kovac and Taquino were selected to market the high-profile San Francisco Centre & Emporium.
These are some of the reasons we selected Kyle Kovac and Michael Taquino as Connect CRE’s California Top Broker Award winners for 2026. These awards recognize industry professionals who have demonstrated the highest standards and transaction volumes in investment sales and leasing.