Edge, a full-service commercial real estate firm with offices in Washington D.C., Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, has announced the hiring of Cristine Kleine as Senior Director with the Capital Markets Group. Ms. Kleine brings more than 15 years of investment sales, leasing, finance, and settlements experience to this new position and previously functioned as Director for Metropolis Capital Advisors.
In her new role, Ms. Kleine will source and complete investment sales transactions involving suburban office buildings, warehouse/industrial properties and neighborhood retail shopping centers throughout the Northern Virginia area with a focus on the Loudoun County marketplace. This will include formulating and strengthening relationships with individual property owners, private equity investment groups, institutional owners, and lenders, particularly those that are active in the Loudoun County community. She will also support the investment sales transaction pipeline of the Capital Markets team that covers the entire Washington, D.C.-Baltimore Region.
Ms. Kleine spent the past three years working for Metropolis Capital Advisors and previously worked in Investment Sales and Leasing for Rosenthal Properties and as Managing Director for PFR Commercial.
“Cristine is a seasoned sales professional that brings a diversified professional background and tremendous familiarity with the Loudoun County and Northern Virginia market place. She excels at developing strong relationships and serving her clients at a high level – both paramount to success in this competitive industry and to thriving within Edge’s entrepreneurial culture,” explained Joe Friedman, Partner of Capital Markets at Edge.
“Despite the disruption in the real estate industry now being experienced, we remain optimistic about the opportunities that lie ahead in the capital markets arena for 2020. The equity markets, while proceeding cautiously, are functioning and the debt markets are showing signs of easing. Now is a perfect time to expand our platform and position ourselves for what we expect to be very active 3rd and 4th quarters. We believe there will be pent-up demand to place equity and debt back into the real estate market, and Edge will be well-positioned to execute transactions for our clients across the region,” Friedman added.
Edge is a commercial real estate firm providing a full complement of advisory, leasing, investment sales, management, construction, property management and engineering services to clients throughout the Washington, D.C., Maryland, Northern Virginia, and Pennsylvania marketplaces. Founded in 2007, the company currently leases and manages more than 8.5 million square feet of commercial office, flex/office, industrial/warehouse, retail and mixed-use space. Visit www.edgecre.com.
