CBRE Vice Chairman Tom Shafer Departs to Form New CRE Platform

CBRE Group Vice Chairman with Atlanta Capital Markets Investment Properties Group Tom Shafer is jumping to Capital Real Estate Group to build an investment sales and capital markets platform.

John Hinson, who worked with Shafer for the past 15 years, joins him in moving to Capital Real Estate Group. 

At CBRE, Shafer provided advisory services and solutions for income property sales, equity financing and land sales to companies with assets across the Southeast US through the S-Team Platform, which has closed 100 transactions since March 2020. The S-Team has signed a new contract with Capital Real Estate Group.

“The S-Team experience is really more about managing relationships, understanding what clients own, and providing services to them before they ask,” Shafer said in a prepared statement. “It’s simple, our scored clients receive tailored, real-time information that they need to make better decisions and create value.”

In addition to Shafer’s investment sales group, Capital Real Estate Group represents office landlords and tenants’ interests ranging from technology startups to Fortune 500 companies. It also has a national US Healthcare Investment Sales brokerage team. President Bennett Gottlieb and his partner John Thornton founded the firm.

Earlier, Shafer was a principal at Atlanta-based Resource Real Estate Partners, which CBRE acquired in 2021. For more than a dozen years, he led the Income Property Sales Team and brokered the sale of $5 billion and over 40 million square feet in commercial assets. The acquisition of Resource Real Estate Partners in 2012 brought him to CBRE.