Haas, whose focus is selling properties for institutional owners, was recruited by Colliers' Seattle executive managing director Rob Aigner, with whom Haas has a longstanding relationship. Prior to Cushman & Wakefield, Haas was a senior vice president at CB Commercial, where he and Aigner worked closely together 18 years.

While his friendship with Aigner was a motivating factor, Haas tells GlobeSt.com he made the move because he believes the Colliers system will help him generate additional business that he otherwise would not see. "(Aigner) has offered me a platform that will benefit my style of business," he says. "The upside for me is a very productive work environment."

Aigner sees an upside for Colliers as well, in the form of increased revenue and a fuller service offering for the Colliers clients. "We've hit a home run with Reynolds," he says. "His many successes speak volumes."

Indeed, Haas has participated in over 500 office, industrial and retail transactions valued at more than $1.5 billion over the course of his career. In the last five months, he has facilitated five transactions with a total consideration exceeding $86 million. Last week he closed the sale of the 163,000-sf Park Place Shopping Center in Tukwila for just under $40 million, marking the highest dollar-per-sf price ever paid for a power center in the Pacific Northwest.

In 2002, Haas was on the Cushman & Wakefield team that facilitated NAIOP's "Deal of the Year,"--the sale of pension fund adviser Lend Lease's 10-building Puget Sound industrial portfolio to San Francisco-based AMB Property Corp. for $52.1 million. That same year he was a finalist for the SIOR's Broker of the Year Award. To boot, he has held the title of Top Investment Producer at Cushman & Wakefield from 1997 through 2002, and has the distinction of selling the 995,089-sf Valley Industrial Park three times: first from Spieker to RREEF, next from RREEF to TrizecHahn, and finally from TrizecHahn to Lend Lease.

Haas names among his largest clients: Jamestown Management Company, Atlanta; ScanlanKemperBard Companies; RREEF; Government of Singapore; Lend Lease; AMB; UNICO Properties; Weyerhaeuser Corporation; Boeing Corporation; Prudential Insurance; Lowe Enterprises and Lakha Investments.

As for Cushman & Wakefield, Haas had no ill words, thanking them for the years of support and growth that has allowed him to flourish professionally. In turn, Michele Guidinger, Cushman and Wakefield's Seattle operations manager, tells GlobeSt.com (through a PR agent) that she wishes Haas nothing but success in his future endeavors.

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