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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

Colliers’ Mark Lewkowitz and Evan McDonald Negotiate 75 Leasing Deals
Leasing Total
1,700,000 square feet
In 2025, the Colliers team of Mark Lewkowitz and Evan McDonald handled 75 deals totaling more than 1.7 million square feet and valued at approximately $200 million.
Highlights include representing developer/landlord Rexford Industrial in its 123,492-square-foot lease at 8888 Balboa Avenue and spearheading an 83,469-square-foot lease at Kurtz Street (owned by Realterm and LaSalle) for tenant Saronic Technologies, Inc.
Additionally, Lewkowitz represented landlord North Richmond Properties Inc. in handling a 128,248-square-foot lease at 1770 Thor and 3388 Main Streets to Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company, and McDonald closed a 62,484-square-foot lease renewal on behalf of CEVA Freight LLC at 7411 Goen Place.
These are some of the reasons we selected Mark Lewkowitz and Evan McDonald 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.