LA REALTY PARTNERS - Key Persons
Blaise Slattery is a Director with LA Realty Partners specializing in office landlord and tenant representation. Blaise services a broad range of clients across all Southern California submarkets. He is committed to providing a premier level of service to his clients from start to finish during the transaction process.
Blaise grew up in San Diego, California and moved to Los Angeles after graduating from Southern Methodist University with a Degree in Economics with Financial Applications. He is known for his ability to develop meaningful and lasting relationships, while also working diligently to ensure that his clients always achieve elite results.
Chris Houge has built his career representing Tenants, Landlords and Investors in the West Los Angeles marketplace. A specialist in the market and all facets of space acquisition, disposition and financial analysis, Chris has been involved in over 28 million square feet of lease and sale assignments for a total consideration in excess of $4 billion. Before becoming a Principal at LA Realty Partners, Chris was a Principal at Madison Partners, a Senior Vice President at Insignia/ESG for 4 years and a Senior Vice President at CB Richard Ellis in West Los Angeles for 18 years. Chris is a top performer year in and year out with the firms, locally and nationally.
Gary Weiss is one of the founding Principals of L.A. Realty Partners and has been an active broker in the Los Angeles area since 1987. He started his career at Studley, specializing in the West Los Angeles submarket, focusing on tenant representation. After 13 years at Studley as one of their consistently top-producing brokers, Mr. Weiss left in 1999 to start up the commercial brokerage division of Wall Street investment bank, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, headquartered in Century City. Shortly after DLJ's takeover by Credit Suisse First Boston, Gary left CSFB in January 2002 and joined the JH Snyder Company as Senior Vice President, concentrating on new development, acquisition, and leasing. From there, he opened Madison Partners in Century City in March of 2004, with three other partners, which became L.A. Realty Partners in 2010.
Gary has made his reputation by representing many high profile tenants and has select high end landlord assignments. He has completed over 8.4 million square feet of transactions, and to date, has negotiated over 468 separate real estate transactions.
Additionally, he has represented over 4 million square feet of law firm, entertainment and media companies, and over 2.5 million square feet of transactions in Century City alone.
Hunt Barnett is a Principal with and Owner of L.A. Realty Partners, and has been a top broker in Los Angeles for more than 38 years. Hunt specializes in advising clients on all aspects of tenant and landlord representation including strategic planning, lease, purchase/sale, consultation, marketing, planning/construction and arbitration issues.
Hunt's vast experience advising tenants, landlords and investors provides his clients with a unique perspective that most brokers cannot provide. Hunt was a Principal with Madison Partners from 2004 to 2010, and before that Hunt was a Senior Managing Director with Insignia/ESG where his performance and leadership established the Insignia/ESG Century City office as the top brokerage firm in the market at the time of its acquisition by CB Richard Ellis in July 2003. Prior to Insignia/ESG Hunt was with CB Richard Ellis for over 19 years where he was a regional and national top producer.
Throughout his career, Hunt has completed more than 1,300 lease transactions totaling over 13 million square feet. He represents large, institutional commercial real estate firms in providing leasing and disposition services for their West Los Angeles office building portfolios, which comprised of 28 properties and over 9.7 million square feet. For over 15 years Hunt represented a major international defense contractor, in over 40 tenant representation assignment totaling in excess of 4 million square feet.
Hunt has represented numerous local and regional firms in tenant representation assignments while conducting parallel assignments for several national and regional institutional landlords/investors.
Hunt is a past recipient of the Los Angeles Business Journal's "Tenant Broker Award" and "Landlord Broker Award" and has been honored numerous times including "Hot Broker" by the California Real Estate Journal and "Power Broker" by Costar/Commercial Property News. Hunt has frequently been a speaker and/or panelist in front of groups such as: BOMA, BizNow, USC, and real estate, various investor and stock analysts groups. He is often quoted in the press as a market expert, and has appeared on CNBC's "Power Lunch".
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner
- Principal
Lisa St. John is a Founding Partner of L.A. Realty Partners, a boutique commercial real estate firm representing occupiers and owners of real estate throughout Los Angeles. She brings a strong background in financial analysis and strategic consulting to each assignment. Over her career, she has completed over 3,000 tenant and landlord representation transactions for clients.
Prior to forming L.A. Realty Partners, Lisa served as a Managing Director at both Trammell Crow Company and Jones Lang LaSalle, specializing in the Greater Los Angeles office real estate market. She has been recognized nationally with both firms as a "Top Broker" and held leadership positions with both firms.
Lisa has also been recognized as an outstanding real estate professional throughout her career. She is the recipient of the "Transaction of the Year Award" by the Los Angeles Business Journal, received CoStar's "Largest Transaction" Award, and has been honored nationally by Commercial Property News. She was also recognized as one of the "Top Women in Real Estate," and featured on the cover of Real Estate Southern California.
Ms. St. John previously worked for Citibank, N.A. in the International Banking Group, primarily in Tokyo, Japan where she was Citibank's first woman officer in Japan.
Lisa's client list includes J.P. Morgan, Hudson Pacific Properties, Kennedy Wilson, Equity Office Properties, The Irvine Company, LaSalle Investment Management, Onni Group, CIM and Vantage Property Investors. She has also represented tenants throughout Los Angeles, including Loyola Marymount University, GM Cruise, Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles, Providence Health and Services, and The Los Angeles Unified School District in the purchase of their 1 million square foot headquarters building in Downtown Los Angeles.
Our clients include almost every major property owner in Southern California including institutional owners, REITs, major corporations, regional real estate owners, developers, private/international investors, pension funds, and high net worth individuals.
Job Titles:
- Principal
- Principal of L.a. Realty Partners
With over 27 years of real estate experience, Peter Best is a Principal of L.A. Realty Partners. Mr. Best has extensive knowledge of the Southern California marketplace, representing both tenants and landlords in a broad spectrum of services from Transaction Management to Corporate Services.
Mr. Best received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Colorado where he majored in Economics. He is a past Board Member of the Century City Chamber of Commerce where he participated in the Real Estate Committee. Mr. Best is the former chairman of the Los Angeles Commercial Realty Association and he served on the Board of Directors for 12 years.
Rick Buckley has provided advisory and transactional services on behalf of his clients in Los Angeles and throughout the United States for over 26 years. Experienced with all facets of commercial real estate, Rick has transactional leasing and sale experience exceeding 20 million square feet, with an aggregate value exceeding $3.5 billion. He is known for developing and executing large, complex assignments on behalf of the clients he represents.
Throughout his career, he has represented the ownerships of more than 50 institutional quality office buildings in Los Angeles, with an aggregate footage exceeding 13 million square feet. His ownership clients are among the Nation's most notable and include Blackstone Group, Brookfield Office Properties, Equity Office Properties, TIAA-CREF, The LeFrak Organization, Morgan Stanley, Clarion Partners and Lincoln Property Company. His specific major project experience includes Blackstone/EOP in their Westwood, CA portfolio (1.7 million square feet), Howard Hughes Center in Los Angeles (1.3 million square feet), Wilshire Courtyard in Miracle Mile (1.2 million square feet), Yahoo! Center in Santa Monica (1.1 million square feet), 6500 Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles (460,000 square feet), Wilshire Rodeo Plaza in Beverly Hills (300,000 square feet), i/o Playa Vista (300,000 square feet), Pen Factory in Santa Monica (222,000 Square feet), 7060 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, (176,000 square feet) and 9701 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills (80,000 square feet).
His major tenant experience includes advising corporations, large and small, on their lease and sale negotiations, expansions, renewals, consolidations, sublease/dispositions, expense audits and all occupancy related issues. Having been involved in well over 2,000 lease transactions, several of his accomplishments include Deluxe Media in their 5-location, Southern California consolidation (175,000 square feet), New York Life Insurance in the disposition of a 12-story, 175,000 square foot office building located at 3303 Wilshire Boulevard, Comcast Corporation in their Los Angeles area consolidation which included G4 Media (120,000 square feet), Premiere Radio Networks in their early lease renewal in Sherman Oaks, CA (90,000 square feet), the Carpenters Pension Trust in their purchase of CB Richard Ellis' former headquarters in Downtown Los Angeles (80,000 square feet), Bear Stearns & Co. in their headquarters lease renewal in Century City (80,000 square feet), Clear Channel in multiple transactions nationally over numerous years (500,000 square feet). He has transaction experience in most major markets across the United States.
Rick has been quoted and/or recognized as a leader in commercial real estate industry by such publications as the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Los Angeles Business Journal, Commercial Property News, Real Estate Southern California and Costar.
Prior to founding L.A. Realty Partners with his partners, Rick was a Principal with Madison Partners. Before this, Rick was part of a team recruited from CB Richard Ellis to open Insignia/ESG's West Los Angeles office where he spent 5 years. Prior to that, Rick spent 11 years with CBRE in West Los Angeles. While at these firms he was consistently recognized as a top performer both locally and nationally.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Los Angeles Area Real Estate Professionals
Tyler Thurlow is a Senior Director with L.A. Realty Partners specializing in office tenant and landlord representation and investment sales in the Greater Los Angeles area. Tyler is responsible for new business development and market specialization. As a member of L.A. Realty Partners, Tyler has been involved in over 2 million square feet of total lease transactions. Prior to joining L.A. Realty partners, Tyler started his career in real estate with Marcus & Millichap specializing in investment sales.
Since joining L.A. Realty Partners, Tyler has represented various tenants from a wide variety of industries including law firms, medical, family offices, media, production, marketing and technology. Additionally, he represented institutional Landlords including The Irvine Company, Douglas Emmett, Brookfield Office Properties, CalSTRS, LaSalle Investment Management and multiple others with an aggregate square footage of over 5MM square feet. On behalf of the Irvine Company, Tyler played a vital role in leasing over 380,000 SF in a 14 month period at 2121 Avenue of the Stars. Tyler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California.
Tyler lives in Manhattan Beach, California with his wife and three children.