Bethany Perez

Bethany Perez

Executive Vice President

Current Responsibilities

Bethany is an Executive Vice President of Agency Leasing based in Austin, Texas. Bethany is responsible for developing landlord relationships, leasing and marketing office properties, as well as bringing in new business to the firm.

Experience

Bethany has 15 years of commercial real estate experience. She joined JLL from Aquila Commercial, where she served as Principal and was responsible for office leasing. Bethany was one of Aquila Commercial’s Top 10 Producers numerous times during her ten years with the company. Her primary responsibilities included bringing in new business, developing landlord relationships, leasing and marketing properties, as well as obtaining the most favorable terms for the landlord. She acted as the main point of contact for her clients, managing all interactions between parties.

Bethany represented over 3.7 million square feet of existing office space and planned developments in the Austin market, and completed 44 transactions totaling 347,783 square feet from 2020-2021. Bethany was one of the top three producers in 2020 and helped spearhead the shift to wellness-focused property marketing campaigns for many of her properties.

Bethany has an insider’s perspective from her experience working at a development and construction firm and serving on the Board of Directors for the Associated Builders and Contractors. She understands what makes a project viable and what it takes for a project to come to fruition.

Education and Affiliations

Bethany earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in marketing from Texas A&M University and graduated magna cum laude.

In 2015 Bethany was named a Globe Street, Southwest Woman of Influence and was named the #1 Heavy Hitter for Office Landlord Representation by the Austin Business Journal (ABJ). In 2020 she was recognized as a CoStar Power Broker and was a finalist for ABJ’s 2020 Profiles in Power.

Bethany is currently involved with Commercial Brokers Association of Austin (CBA) and Urban Land Institute of Austin (ULI).

Past & current clients:

CIM
Vanderbilt Office Properties
Starwood
DivcoWest
PacTrust
CREA
Generational Commercial Properties