Chesnut Foster Honored as NAI NBS Property Manager of the Year

NAI Norris, Beggs & Simpson named Beverly Chesnut Foster Property Manager of the Year at the company's annual awards banquet Jan. 22.

Chesnut Foster is a Certified Property Manager (CPM) who joined the company in 2008. She currently manages three properties with office and retail components totaling nearly 300,000 sf. One client deemed her the “property manager of the century,” and said she ably deals with challenges and goes above and beyond to satisfy tenants and clients. Prior to coming to NAI NBS, Chesnut Foster had a diverse career that included managing property for the Port of Portland and lecturing on real estate and management in central Europe.

NAI NBS Property Managers Win Big at Oregon Chapter IREM Awards

NAI Norris, Beggs & Simpson had a great showing at the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) Oregon-Columbia River Chapter Annual Awards Ceremony last week. NAI NBS was named the Accredited Management Organization (AMO) Firm of the Year. Kimberly Fuhrer, who works out of our Vancouver office and is IREM's Vice President, Member Services for 2011, was named Certified Property Manager (CPM) of the Year. Traci McCauley, IREM's Vice President of Education for 2011, was honored for Outstanding Member Participation of the Year. Debra McCracken, another Vancouver property manager and IREM's 2011 President, was recognized with the President’s Award.

A number of other NAI NBS property managers will also hold leadership roles in IREM in 2011:

Nutan Engels - Community Service Committee Chair
Monique Clouser - Income/Expense Committee Chair
Christina DuCoté - Legislative Committee Chair
Stephanie MacPherson - Newsletter Committee Chair

Congratulations to all! NAI NBS has a strong asset/property management division. Our current portfolio is about 7 million square feet, 345 residential units and 117 acres of land, around the Portland metropolitan area and Vancouver, Wash. NBS Multifamily Management, a division of Norris, Beggs & Simpson Cos., manages the residential portion.

DuCote Joins NAI NBS as Senior Property Manager

Christina DuCoté, an experienced property manager who has managed a diverse portfolio of Class A commercial office buildings in the San Diego area, has joined NAI Norris, Beggs & Simpson as a Senior Property Manager.

Christina has more than 12 years of experience as a property manager. She was previously a Senior Property Manager with The Muller Company in San Diego, where she managed more than a million square feet at one time. She won The Office Building of the Year Award (TOBY) in 2008. Issued by the Buildings Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of San Diego, the award recognizes quality in office buildings and rewards excellence in office building management.

Christina holds a bachelor of arts in economics from San Diego State University. She is a Real Property Administrator (RPA) and Certified Property Manager (CPM), both prestigious property management designations.

NBS Companies and Stratton Launch NBS Multifamily Management

Norris, Beggs & Simpson Companies and Susan Bowlsby Stratton, a successful apartment management executive, have joined forces to found NBS Multifamily Management, a company dedicated to managing apartment communities of 100 units or more around the West Coast.

Why start a new venture in this economic climate? NBS Companies President J. Clayton Hering said he expects that as the job market grows, the demand for housing will increase, with a short supply of single-family and multifamily housing due to the significant reduction in construction over the last several years. With single-family lenders requiring greater equity and better credit, fewer people will be able to buy houses and will thus reenter the apartment market.

“With increased market activity the necessity for professional, value-added multifamily management will rise, and NBS Multifamily Management will provide a quality of service to enable multifamily owners to be competitive,” Hering said.

NBS Multifamily Management expects to hire more than 100 people in the area to run and maintain the apartment communities it will manage.

Stratton, who has more than 20 years of multifamily management experience up and down the West Coast, will serve as President of the new company. Stratton spent 13 years at Harsch Investment Properties, most recently as Senior Vice President of Operations, where she was responsible for the company’s multifamily division and managed up to 5,500 units. A native Oregonian, she will receive her Executive MBA from Pepperdine University in March.

“I am so pleased to be joining NBS,” Stratton said. “My years of experience combined with NBS’ very successful property management track record will allow us to shine in the multifamily management industry.”

Cassandra Haavisto will serve as NBS Multifamily Management’s Regional Manager for the Puget Sound area. Haavisto’s industry experience spans 20 years; she has managed more than 13,000 units during her career and worked for major companies like Harsch Investment Properties and Trammell Crow.

Winder Honored as NAI NBS Manager of the Year

NBS Companies honored Mark Winder as Manager of the Year in the Property Management Division at the company's annual Awards Banquet January 30. Winder joined NAI NBS in 1996 and manages the engineering services division, which consists of nineteen engineers.

In 2009, Winder was instrumental in the department’s business development, writing new business proposals and ensuring compliance on vendor contracts. He is known as a “jack of all trades” – a valuable resource for the department and its clients. He is LEED AP certified and holds a number of other engineering certifications.

NAI NBS Property Managers Take Home IREM Awards

NAI Norris, Beggs & Simpson and three of its property managers were honored with awards at the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) Oregon chapter annual awards ceremony on Nov. 3 in Portland.

Associate Vice President Traci McCauley, CPM, was honored as Certified Property Manager of the Year. Property Manager Kathi Pearce was recognized as CPM Candidate of the Year. McCauley and Pearce work in NAI NBS’ Portland office. Senior Property Manager Kimberly Fuhrer, CPM, who works in the company’s Vancouver office, was recognized for Outstanding Member Participation of the Year.

NAI NBS was also recognized as Sponsor of the Year.

IREM has been the source for education, membership, resources and information for real estate management professionals since 1933. An affiliate of the National Association of REALTORS®, IREM is the only professional real estate management association serving both the multi-family and commercial real estate sectors. With a network spanning 81 US chapters, eight international chapters and several other global partnerships, its membership comprises over 18,000 individual members and 500 corporate members around the world.

NAI NBS Ranks Second on PBJ's Top 25 Commercial Property Management Firms List

NAI Norris, Beggs & Simpson ranked second on the Portland Business Journal's list of the Top 25 Commercial Property Management Firms, based on total metro square footage managed. The list was published in the Friday, June 5, edition. NAI NBS' 15 property managers in the Portland metropolitan area manage 7,125,814 square feet of commercial space, including office, industrial, flex, retail, and land.

NAI NBS' Clouser Earns CCIM Designation

NAI Norris, Beggs & Simpson Vice President Monique Clouser, a property manager, has obtained her Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation.

To attain the CCIM designation, Clouser completed four core courses and three elective credits, prepared her management portfolio and passed a comprehensive exam.

A CCIM is an invaluable resource to the commercial real estate owner, investor, and user, and is among an elite group of more than 9,000 professionals across North America and in 30 countries abroad. Only 6% of the estimated 150,000 commercial real estate practitioners nationwide hold the CCIM designation, an indication of one of the most coveted and respected designations in the industry.

Clouser joined NAI NBS in 1996 and has managed more than two million square feet of office and retail space in her career to date. Management highlights include Lincoln Center, with seven Class A office buildings totaling 731,391 sf, 5800 and 6000 Meadows, which she managed from construction to operation, and One and Three Centerpointe, two office buildings totaling 190,335 sf in the Kruse Way submarket.

Clouser is a Certified Property Manager (CPM), a licensed broker in Oregon and Washington, and holds a business degree from Linfield College.