Tom Watkins

What Tom does

Investment sales, start to close.

• Sells apartment buildings, from fourplexes to large multifamily portfolios.
• Sells net lease, industrial, land and development sites.
• Structures 1031 exchanges, from the sale of the relinquished property through the purchase of the replacement.
• Leads a team of seven agents at Centennial Advisers.

Where he works

Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

Greater Los Angeles, Long Beach, Orange County, the Inland Empire and Las Vegas. Tom works out of Centennial's Long Beach and Las Vegas offices. Centennial also has offices in Tustin, Century City and Denver.

Why owners hire him

He outworks the competition.

Top investors choose Tom because he outworks the competition. His underwriting is built on a detailed understanding of local markets. He has invested in apartment buildings himself, so he knows the rewards and the headaches of ownership firsthand.

His experience goes past brokerage. Tom has administered syndication projects and been involved in developing mixed-use property in Los Angeles from the entitlement phase.

Track record

The numbers.

• More than 20 years in commercial real estate investment sales.
• Hundreds of millions of dollars in commercial property sales.
• 27 1031 exchanges closed by Tom's team last year.
• Centennial Advisers: more than 4,000 transactions and more than 1,100 1031 exchanges firm-wide.

Credentials

Licensed and accountable.

• California Department of Real Estate license #01754440, with Centennial Realty Brokerage & Investment Corporation (CalDRE #01866195).
• Quinnipiac University, Hamden, Connecticut. Captain of the Division I hockey team his junior and senior years.

Off the clock: married with two children. When time allows, he still finds his way back onto the ice.