SRS Real Estate Partners welcomed Greg Valladao as senior vice president as part of the Investment Properties Group in the Phoenix office. With nearly 30 years of experience utilizing his extensive retail, sales, management, and legal experience, Greg is a well-respected commercial real estate professional with a reputation as a retail real estate expert in Arizona, and throughout the U.S.
Most recently with Cushman & Wakefield as a senior director of their Arizona Retail Capital Markets Group, Greg specialized in the sale of investment properties for private and institutional owners and lenders. Over his real estate career, Greg has been involved in more than 130 investment sale transactions totaling more than $1.4 billion in value.
Greg began his professional career with Federated Department Stores in Houston, Texas which was his introduction to retailing techniques that continue to serve him today. Shortly after, he moved to Northern California to assist in the national rollout of Bartles & Jaymes Wine Coolers. Upon completion of that project, he moved to Apple Computers in various roles, including supporting Apple’s retail dealerships in the Western U.S. during a time of extreme growth for Apple and the introduction of seven new product lines. Greg left Apple to pursue a law degree at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. His studies included real estate law, business law, and contracts. Upon graduation, he joined prominent Phoenix insurance defense firm, Jones, Skelton & Hochuli, as a commercial litigator specializing in real estate disputes.