Irvine, Calif. (November 28, 2023) – Kirk Brummer and Eric Shain have joined Kidder Mathews’ office in Orange County. The team specializes in the disposition, acquisition, valuation, and repositioning of retail properties including anchored shopping centers, strip centers, and single-tenant net lease properties throughout the Western United States. Brummer joins the firm as a senior vice president, with Shain as a vice president. Prior to joining Kidder Mathews, Brummer and Shain were at CBRE in Newport Beach.
Brummer brings more than 25 years of retail investment sales experience. Over the course of his career, he and his team have completed nearly 800 transactions, exceeding $13.1 billion in value and 62.7 million square feet. At CBRE, he was a founding member of the firm’s National Retail Partners – West (NRP-West) group, which consistently ranked as one of the top retail investment teams nationally. Shain joined the team in 2017, where he helped close over $650 million in retail property sales.
They have represented high-net-worth private investors, developers, family offices, and institutional clients including AEW, BlackRock, Blackstone, Crow Holdings, Federal Realty, Kimco Realty, Regency Centers, Phillips Edison, Prudential, and many others.
“The Kidder Mathews platform promotes an entrepreneurial culture while providing tremendous support, branding, and marketing resources allowing us to create maximum value for our clients,” said Brummer. “We look forward to expanding Kidder Mathews’ retail capital market presence in the West.”
“We are excited about the opportunity to be a part of Kidder Mathews and help contribute to their growth in the retail investment market,” said Shain. “The firm’s industry-leading marketing team and support will allow us to put our clients’ needs first.”
“I am very excited to welcome Kirk Brummer and Eric Shain to our Kidder Mathews Irvine office,” said Eric Paulsen, Regional President of Brokerage in Southern California and Arizona. “They are exceptionally talented, well connected, and very successful retail investment sales professionals and fit in well with the Kidder Mathews culture and environment.”
About Kidder Mathews
Kidder Mathews is the largest independent commercial real estate firm on the West Coast, with over 900 real estate professionals and staff in 20 offices in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Arizona. Kidder Mathews offers a complete range of brokerage, appraisal, asset services, consulting, and debt & equity finance services for all property types. The firm performs $12 billion in transactions, manages 53 million square feet of space, and conducts 2,800 appraisal, consulting, and cost segregation assignments annually.
