Bruce Berman Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Tx

Represent owners and buyers in the death care industry. Market and sell funeral homes, cemeteries, and crematories nationally. Assist in placing both purchase mortgage loans and loans for refinancing or expansion of the facilities. Provide market and situational analysis and recommendations to maximize the value to our clients.

Represent local, national, and international corporations. Provided value added services to increase efficiency, profitability, and uniformity. Provided a wide range of solutions and direction for increasing revenue, flexibility, corporate protection, and streamlining reporting. Provided creative lease strategy to save a client over $500,000 in lease costs while providing greater flexibility.

Represented national and international corporations as their corporate real estate officer; negotiated leases, build-to-suit projects, purchases, dispositions, site selection and analysis, strategy and forecasting. Focused on providing Value Added Services and creating uniformity in lease documents and increasing flexibility and corporate protection. Improved revenue to clients in excess of $2,500,000 through comprehensive lease negotiations. Improved critical date lead times and profit growth. Standardized lease documents for uniformity, consistency, and reduced liability. Improved reporting and shortened the transaction cycle time.

Austin, Tx

Sales, Marketing and Development of Industrial properties and client retention and expansion. Hired to form and develop an industrial division for the company. Responsible for developing new clients and their retention, hiring and training of new industrial associates, and increasing revenue and market share for the company.

Hired and trained six industrial brokers who went on to be Top Producers for the company. Increased revenue, approximately $650,000 annually, and market share for the company by 15% +/-. Perform and direct daily operations of company with individual owners and corporate executives. Maintain listings as selling broker for national and local commercial properties and accounts in North Texas. Appraise properties, designate market values and appropriate selling prices after researching tax information and comparable market figures. Study population growth and traffic pattern statistics. Communicate appropriate available data to clients. Contact customers with listed information. Show properties, explaining location and tax advantages. Supervise contractual language and assist local, state, and federal agencies in the development of construction projects or retrofits for facilities. Heavy customer relations focus. Maintain exclusive client files with major accounts such as W.W. Grainger Inc., AT&T Information Systems, SmithKline/Beecham, Sony Corporation, Hoffman-LaRouche Inc. Michelin Tire Company, City of Dallas, County of Dallas, USX, Steelcase, Inc., Rockwell Automation. Recognized as top producer in division and consistently top 10 in company

Bachelor Of Business Administration (Bba), Marketing

Activities and Societies: Marketing ClubStudied

Graduated, 1967, General Studies

Activities and Societies: Softball, baseball