Gregory Laskody, CCIM

GREGORY J. LASKODY, CCIM is Principal of HAUTE Commercial Real Estate, LLC.  He is a 1988 graduate (B.S., Real Estate and Finance) of Florida State University’s renowned and nationally ranked Real Estate program of the College of Business and has been active in the South Florida commercial real estate (CRE) market since that time, becoming a market leader and a local expert. 
 
Throughout his career, he has held production, leadership, and executive management positions with some of the most notable companies in commercial real estate, such as:

• Deloitte;
• Nomura Capital;
• The Capital Company of America;
• Wells Fargo;
• Q10 Capital; 
• Newmark Grubb Knight Frank;
• Colliers International, and;
• Lee & Associates.

 
He has also held the following commercial real estate designations, licenses, and achievements:

• A current licensed real estate broker (Florida);
• A current Certified Commercial Investment Member (“CCIM”) of the CCIM Institute;
• The 2020 President of the East Coast District of the Florida CCIM Chapter;
• A former Member of the Appraisal Institute (“MAI”);
• A former licensed mortgage broker (Florida);
• A former State-Certified General Real Estate Appraiser (Florida);
• A former State-Certified General Appraisal Instructor (Florida), and;
• A previous Adjunct Professor of Real Estate Studies at Miami-Dade College.

 
Greg’s exceptionally diverse background in the industry presents a deep level of market knowledge and financial advisory experience that is a significant value-add to his client base that includes:

• Financial Institutions and Financial Advisors;
• Insurance Companies;
• Mortgage Servicers;
• Law, Public Accounting, and Financial Planning Firms;
• Governmental Entities;
• Private Property Owners;
• Property Managers and Asset Managers;
• Public and Private Investment Groups;
• “Wall Street” firms, Private Equity/Hedge Funds, and High- and Ultra-High Net Worth Family Offices;
• Developers;
• and many others.

 
Greg was also a Conference Committee Member of The Florida State University’s Center for Real Estate Education and Research from 2011 through 2015.  He has also been a panelist and speaker at various local, state-wide, and regional commercial real estate events.  Since graduating, he has successfully completed more than 100 real estate-related courses and seminars sponsored by the Appraisal Institute, the CCIM Institute, accredited universities, and other continuing education programs dedicated to the commercial real estate and finance industries.  He has also been nationally published in a number of commercial real estate-oriented media.
 
Greg was previously the East Coast District President of the CCIM Institute’s Florida Chapter for 2020, and founded the “Young CRE Networking Group,” a grass-roots organically grown networking platform born from the restrictions of COVID-19 to give young CRE professionals a platform for networking, and breaking into, the South Florida CRE space, which in a year‘s time grew to over 120 active members. 
 
In addition to HAUTE, Greg is also the founder and principal of Master CRE, LLC (www.masterCRE.com), a web-based interactive commercial real estate education platform offering custom-developed educational content targeting the CRE industry.  All content is developed on a “three-tiered premise” of: 1) Mastery of the CRE investment theories and principals; 2) Mastery of the math behind those theories and principals, and; 3) Mastery of the required Excel© skills behind the math. Course content includes Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced content, with in-depth curriculum involving multi-family; office; retail; industrial; mixed-use; and special-purpose assets, among many other property types.  The platform includes interactive content, quizzes with explanations, and many other enhancements to the overall learning experience.  Students learn, build, and customize their own Microsoft Excel© models that can later be used to analyze and underwrite their own real-world transactions, and in real time.
 
 
ABOUT HAUTE COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE, LLC
In February 2020, Greg started HAUTE Commercial Real Estate (www.HAUTEcre.com) to: 1) provide the CRE marketplace representation as a true fiduciary; 2) streamline the entire CRE brokerage process through a proprietary cloud-based, all-virtual platform that eliminates the need for support personnel, redundancies, marketing teams, and related overhead; 3) pass those benefits to team members via higher internal commissions.  HAUTE is a full-service, white-glove boutique brand predominantly providing investment sales and capital markets brokerage and advisory services, tenant/landlord representation, and customized client-based solutions.  
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