Wendy Holmes-Pierce

Wendy has spent her 34± years real estate career in the Commercial Real Estate Industry specializing in leasing, sales and management of a mixed portfolio of properties including office, retail, industrial and multifamily for owners\developers and large institutional companies in the Southeastern United States. Her roles have included a full scope of operations, tenant relations and retention programs, leasing, sales, tenant representation, construction management and investment analysis of commercial property including office, retail, multifamily and industrial. She holds expertise in problem solving with a high degree of imagination, ingenuity and creativity for all aspects of commercial real estate. Ms. Pierce is proven to be a strong negotiator, able to effectively interface with clients, tenants, brokers and contractors during complex situations.

Prior to joining Fickling & Company, Wendy was a General Manager with Grubb & Ellis and successfully negotiated leases for many Fortune 100, 300 and 500 companies including Merrill Lynch, New York Life, Ricoh, Robert Half International and Synovus Wealth Management, Auto-Owners and Accountable Healthcare Staffing. Wendy was recruited by Fickling & Company in early 2005 as Director of the Commercial Property Management Division and was responsible for overseeing management, leasing, new business development, and customer/tenant relations of a large portfolio of commercial office, retail and industrial properties. Shortly after her recruitment to Fickling & Company, her expertise of all aspects of commercial real estate sales and leasing opened an opportunity to join the Transactions Team. From that time, she has been a Top Producer for the past few years and continues to provide excellent service to her clients.

Her experience includes negotiations of numerous retail and office leases, both from a Tenant and Landlord Representation standpoint. She has been successful in negotiating deals in major retail centers partnering with such firms as Sembler, Pacific West Land and Coastal Equities amongst others. She has extensive experience with negotiations in anchored community centers, grocery anchored, non-anchored strip and small shop retail centers including outparcel negotiations. Her exposure in the retail arena has afforded her to participate not only in the leasing of moderate and upscale retail shopping centers but also in the negotiation of leases to Regional and National credit tenants. She has extensive experience of the office leasing and sales arena expanding her entire career in major metropolitan markets as well as tertiary markets. Ms. Pierce has successfully negotiated hundreds of thousands of square feet of Class A leases during her career in both the Landlord and Tenant Representation fields and has extensive knowledge of all aspects of the commercial office industry. She has successfully administered complicated long range property operation plans and budgets including marketing and lease up programs as well as comprehensive marketing programs for sale of office, retail development and mixed use sites for her clients.

In addition to her expertise of tenant representation and general transactions services, she has successfully handled dispositions of OREO properties for various National and Regional lenders such as OCWEN Financial, BB&T, SunTrust and FDIC.

Ms. Pierce’s experience in sales, leasing, management, construction management and tenant improvement projects and her dedication to clients strengthens her ability to serve her clients with the utmost in professionalism.

EDUCATION & HONORS
Bachelor of Business Administration, Georgia College and State University
Who’s Who Among American Colleges and Universities
Licensed Real Estate Sales Agent, Georgia, 1991
Real Property Administrator designation, 1999
Grubb & Ellis, Circle of Excellence Award, 2001

PROFESSIONAL & CIVIC AFFILIATIONS
International Council of Shopping Centers
Building Owners and Managers Association and Institute
Institute of Real Estate Management
National Association of Realtors
Atlanta Commercial Board of Realtors
Middle Georgia Association of Realtors
Middle Georgia Commercial Council of Realtors
Macon Chamber of Commerce