Based in Portland, Zongazo focuses his retail brokerage practice in the region’s suburbs (the metro market has some 2.6 million residents), preferring to represent tenants, though he does some landlord work as well. He uses a product called Retail Lease Trac to identify tenants in the market for nationwide expansion space, but he also uses good old fashion cold calling by walking into local retail stores and asking to talk to the management or proprietors.
Gael Zongazo started his commercial brokerage career in early 2021 by joining NAI Elliott’s Retail Advisors Northwest team, led by George McCoubray and teammates Nick Stanton and Emmy Johnston.
Based in Portland, Zongazo focuses his retail brokerage practice in the region’s suburbs (the metro market has some 2.6 million residents), preferring to represent tenants, though he does some landlord work as well. He uses a product called Retail Lease Trac to identify tenants in the market for nationwide expansion space, but he also uses good old fashion cold calling by walking into local retail stores and asking to talk to the management or proprietors.
Among other projects, he is currently working on a big assignment with an NAI colleague out of Charlotte, North Carolina, on behalf of the Veterans Administration.
Formerly of the San Francisco Bay Area, his brother-in-law is NAI Elliott President Jordan Elliott, who had recruited Zongazo for a number of years, and finally got him to relocate to the Portland area. Zongazo’s entrepreneurial background is perfectly suited for retail brokerage, having founded Bay Area Fit, a business supplying fitness classes for corporations and multifamily residential properties that is now an online fitness-training tool. That business ended up providing him with passive income that allowed him to transition into commissioned-based brokerage services. An accountant by training, he also worked in residential real estate in California.
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