Neal Swanson is a commercial real estate professional in Bellingham, WA specializing in retail, office, and multi-family investment sales and leasing. Neal plays an active role in helping clients with commercial property acquisition and disposition, site or tenant selection, and deal term negotiations.

Investment Sales

Neal advises on, structures, and executes a wide range of transactions for clients including investment property, sale-leasebacks, and build to suit locations. His custom-tailored solutions are designed to help clients achieve utmost value, mitigate tax burdens, and optimize cash flow.

With unsurpassed reach in the Whatcom County market, intimate knowledge of real estate fundamentals, and complete access to Windermere Commercial's brokerage capabilities and services, Neal provides optimal client solutions by crafting innovative ways to bring together buyers and sellers across various property types. He assists clients locally and regionally with both large portfolio disposition and single-asset sales, through a highly coordinated marketing process, standardization, and broad-based market coverage from experienced, responsive, and innovative professionalism.

Landlord Representation

For landlords, Neal develops strategies to enhance the value of a real estate asset through four key elements: positioning the product in the marketplace, identifying suitable prospects, creating customized marketing strategies and tools and managing all of the steps associated with the leasing process. He evaluates market conditions, including tenant relocations, levels of occupancy in a target area, rental rates, proposed development and other real estate trends and develops a comprehensive positioning and leasing program for the property. As a result of his experience with Tenant Representation, Neal is able to better understand tenants' needs and thus position and lease properties for landlords more effectively.

Tenant Representation

Neal's integrated resources help tenants meet their objectives in various markets and locations. He analyzes each tenant's business objectives and matches them with the optimal real estate solution. Services for relocations, consolidations, subleases, acquisitions, and dispositions include strategic planning, demographic and site consulting, comparative financial analysis, construction, and post-occupancy services.

Prior to joining Windermere Commercial, Neal worked in the Seattle office of Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. and Colliers International. During this time, Neal assisted numerous national, regional, and local companies in the successful leasing and sales of their commercial assets. Before his career in commercial real estate, Neal worked for the advertising firm Saatchi & Saatchi in New York City, and the Northwest Business Monthly Magazine in Bellingham, WA.

Neal is a graduate of Western Washington University with a bachelor of arts in business administration and marketing. He is an active member in each of the following organizations:

CBA Commercial Investment Broker’s Association
CCIM Candidate Certified Commercial Investment Member
NAR National Association of Realtors
WAR Washington Association of Realtors
NWMLS Northwest Multiple Listings Association
WYP Whatcom Young Professionals
BREIN Bellingham Real Estate Investors Network
BCBT British Columbia Board of Trade Member
Member Bellingham/Whatcom Chamber of Commerce
BWEDC Bellingham/Whatcom Economic Development Council