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2026 Top Broker Awards
Florida & Gulf Coast
- Caleb Lewis With JLL Handles 94 Transactions Across 1.4 Million Square Feet
- CBRE’s Molly-Molloy Catlett Spearheads 81 Deals Totaling 700,000 Square Feet
- Colliers’ Jonathan Kingsley and Stephen Rutchik Complete 212 Lease Transactions Across 1.8 Million Square Feet
- Colliers’ Kovacs Retail Team Closes 92 Deals, Totaling Over 1.2 Million Square Feet
- Cushman&Wakefield’s Florida Capital Markets Team Handles 40 Closings Totaling Over $2 Billion
- Fausto Commercial Closes 161 Transactions Totaling $450 Million
- JBM Handles 7 Transactions at a $472-Million Sales Volume
- JLL’s Sky Groden Closes 83 Industrial Transactions Across South Florida
- Newmark Multifamily Team Handles 49 Deals Totaling Over $3.6 Billion
- SRS Real Estate’s Will Wamble Closes 178 Deals Totaling Over $602 Million

JBM Handles 7 Transactions at a $472-Million Sales Volume
Sales Total
$472 million
JBM Institutional Multifamily Advisors is a six-person company specializing in new merchant developments, BTR, and active adult transactions across southwest Florida. The team includes Jamie May, Eddie Yang, Chad Walthall, Jordan Kidder, Hope Stephens and Sofia Bressani.
The team handled 7 transactions in 2025, totaling $472 million in deal volume.
Notable deals included the sales of the 264-unit Centro, 200-unit Coastal Village (a student housing property) and the 280-unit Estero Oaks in Lee County. The team also handled the sale of the 172-unit Collective at Archer, a BTR community in Gainesville. The deal represented the highest-per-unit, market-rate, institutional transaction in Gainesville in 2025.
These are some of the reasons we selected JBM Institutional Multifamily Advisors as one of Connect CRE’s Florida & Gulf Coast 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.