NEW YORK, N.Y. – NAI Global President and CEO Jay Olshonsky, FRICS, CCIM, SIOR, announced the firm’s 2021 Top Producers that featured the top 125 agents – including a pair of NAI Horizon professionals who experienced one of the best production years of their careers in 2021.

Collectively, NAI Global’s top 125 agents, representing the top 2 percent of NAI Global’s more than 5,100 agents worldwide, generated more than $250 million in gross commissions and fees.

NAI Horizon Executive Managing Director Denise Nunez was No. 70. Nunez, who formed the Nunez Self-Storage Group in 2015, was also the Top Producer for 2021 at NAI Horizon. While she transacted deals in Illinois, California, and Texas, one of her significant deals was the $17.5 million investment sale of a self-storage and RV facility in Gilbert Arizona. Nunez closed more than $140 million in deals in 2021.

NAI Horizon Executive Managing Director Isy Sonabend, an industrial property specialist, was No. 111 on the list. Sonabend was No. 2 Top Producer for NAI Horizon in 2021 with one of his most significant deals of 2021. He represented Carvana in the $25 million purchase of 148 acres in Surprise, Arizona.

Several of those transactions were completed in partnership with other NAI firms.

“I am proud of Denise and Isy and their accomplishments in the industry,” said NAI Horizon CEO/Designated Broker Terry Martin-Denning. “Their dedication and commitment to client service excellence and professionalism are key to their success.”

The top 125 specialize in office, industrial, retail, data centers and self-storage properties in both leasing and sales and come from 85 primary markets, 20 major markets, 12 secondary markets and 10 tertiary markets from dozens of cities in more than 20 states. Seven of the top 125 were from Europe. There were also 23 teams recognized for what in many cases were record years for the teams.

“In the second year of a global pandemic, seeing such record production for so many of our professionals was almost unthinkable as 2021 began, we could not be happier for last year’s achievements by the men and women on our 2021 Top Producers list,” Olshonsky said.

Scott Mertz, SIOR, with NAI Mertz in the Philadelphia and New Jersey markets, was NAI Global’s top producer overall.

PHOENIX, ARIZONA – Marcus & Millichap (NYSE: MMI), a leading commercial real estate brokerage firm specializing in investment sales, financing, research and advisory services, announced today the sale of North Haven, a 33-unit apartment property located in Phoenix, Arizona. North Haven is located at 1742 W. Vogel Avenue in Phoenix, Arizona.

According to Ryan Sarbinoff, regional manager of the firm’s Phoenix office, the asset sold for $5,445,000 ($165,000 per unit).

“North Haven is surrounded by the growing lifestyle opportunities of a gentrifying area and the natural beauty of the North Mountain Preserve,” shared Darrell Moffitt, senior vice president in Marcus & Millichap’s Phoenix office. “The adjacent city-endorsed North Mountain Redevelopment Area, a defined area within the Phoenix MSA currently undergoing transformative gentrification efforts, provides assistance to residents and business owners in taking advantage of funding mechanisms designed to improve the region through advancement of underutilized properties, expanded infrastructure, and the creation of additional employment opportunities, lead by a revitalization of the iconic Metrocenter Mall.”

Moffitt and Paul Bay, first vice president investments in the firm’s Phoenix office, had the exclusive listing to market the property on behalf of the seller, a private investor. “The buyer will have the opportunity to renovate all unit interiors and benefit from favorable premiums already proven in the immediate vicinity,” Moffitt added. “The seller for this transaction was Andre Golnazarian.”

PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA – For the first time in 28 years, Pima County has a new County Administrator. The Board of Supervisors Tuesday appointed Jan Lesher as County Administrator. She takes over from Chuck Huckelberry who had been County Administrator since 1993. Lesher has been serving as Acting County Administrator since October when Huckelberry was badly injured in a bicycling accident. The Board also accepted Huckelberry’s resignation at the meeting.

Lesher, 66, a Tucson native who attended the University of Arizona, graduating with a degree in political science, is the first woman to be appointed County Administrator since the Board created the position in 1971 (Jane Verner served as interim County Administrator for 8 months in 1989) .

In her early career she worked for the city of Tucson as an assistant to City Manager Joel Valdez. In 1990 she became a small business owner, launching Lesher Communications, a public relations firm specializing in government relations, public affairs, and political campaigns.

In 2003, Gov. Janet Napolitano hired Lesher to run her Southern Arizona Office. Napolitano then made her director of the Arizona Department of Commerce before finally hiring her to be the governor’s chief of staff in 2008. In 2009, Napolitano was confirmed as the Homeland Security Secretary in the Obama Administration and Napolitano brought Lesher with her to Washington D.C. to continue to serve as her chief of staff and oversee a department with 240,000 employees and a $52 billion budget.

Lesher missed her home state and in 2010 returned to Tucson where Huckelberry hired her as a special assistant to the County Administrator. Lesher was promoted to Deputy County Administrator in 2011 and Huckelberry named her Chief Deputy County Administrator in 2017.

Lesher is extraordinarily active and well known in the community and has served on numerous charitable organization boards, including service as a member of the Board of Directors of Arizona Town Hall; the Community Foundation of Southern Arizona; the University of Arizona College of Social & Behavioral Science; the Community Food Bank; and La Frontera.

She was named a Woman of Influence by Inside Tucson Business and recognized with the Women Who Lead award from the University of Arizona Women’s Studies Advisory Council in 2004. She was honored as the Metropolitan Tucson Chamber of Commerce Woman of the Year in 2005. In 2008 she was the Arizona Capitol Times Leader of the Year in Public Policy and received the YWCA Business Leadership Award.