Sam Ziemba joins JLL’s Seattle Capital Markets team

SEATTLE, Feb. 1, 2024 –  JLL Capital Markets announced today that Sam Ziemba has joined the team as a Senior Director in its Seattle office. Ziemba will be partnering with Mark Katz, Senior Managing Director and a leader of JLL’s national office investment sales advisory business, to focus on institutional office sales in the Seattle area.  

“We are incredibly excited to be the only office investment sales advisory team in Seattle that combines a national office leader with a senior professional who has spent their entire professional life in the Seattle market,” says Mark Katz. “This unique approach will provide our clients with unparelled local, national and global office insights that will benefit the leading firms that call these important Seattle and Eastside markets home.” 

Ziemba has been with JLL since 2019 and was previously a Senior Vice President and head of JLL’s Eastside Office Agency practice. In this role, he had a particular focus on new construction but was also involved in the acquisition and disposition of more than $200 million of commercial property for investment and development. Ziemba has spent more than 19 years focused on real estate solutions for clients in the Puget Sound area, starting his career as a broker with Colliers International. He is an active member of NAIOP and is a graduate of the University of Portland.

“Sam has an extensive background covering office agency leasing in the Puget Sound area that has afforded him valuable relationships with many of the area’s top owners and occupiers,” said Ira Virden, Senior Managing Director and co-head of JLL’s Seattle Capital Markets office.

Ziemba continues “Having spent the bulk of my career on the leasing side of the business, I’m really looking forward to a new challenge on the sale side, particularly at such a pivotal turning point for the office market.”

JLL Capital Markets is a full-service global provider of capital solutions for real estate investors and occupiers. The firm's in-depth local market and global investor knowledge delivers the best-in-class solutions for clients — whether investment sales and advisory, debt advisory, equity advisory or a recapitalization. The firm has more than 3,000 Capital Markets specialists worldwide with offices in nearly 50 countries.

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