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IRVINE, CA-GlobeSt.com has learned exclusively that Colliers International has promoted Ian Schroeder and Maurice Nieman to SVPs. The two are among a handful of commercial real estate brokers who played key roles in founding the national triple-net investment practice at the firm five years ago and have watched it grow to more than $1 billion in closed transactions last year.

Schroeder and Nieman have become one of the top triple-net investment teams in the nation, posting more than $200 million in closed investment transactions in 2012. While based in the firm's Southwest Region headquarters here, most of their transactions have been completed outside of California with many repeat clients. Their business model disposes of properties held by large institutional sellers and delivers them to the private capital/investment market.

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Prior to joining the firm, Nieman worked for a series of firms including General Instrument, PacTel and Motorola. He was also the owner and founder of Blindsgalore.com, a leader in the window-coverings industry. Schroeder previously worked for Ashland Chemical and ExxonMobil, in addition to other major Fortune 50 firms.

According to Martin Pupil, president of Colliers' Southwest Region, Schroeder and Nieman “have developed a robust business platform of selling assets with varying degrees of complexity throughout the nation.” Nieman said in a prepared statement that the duo has “specialized in marketing harder-to-sell assets often held by larger, institutional investors. In fact, many of our clients appreciate the way we manage the disposition process. Our system allows us to create value for each asset, with an in-depth knowledge of each property resulting in sales that are very close to list prices.”

Schroeder added that “it has been gratifying, to say the least, that our clients continue to give us repeat business with complete faith that we will use integrity and professionalism to generate the highest-possible price for their dispositions. That's the level of trust our clients have come to expect from us.”

As GlobeSt.com previously reported, keeping the seller in the loop is one key to building and maintaining relationships, according to brokers, and Nieman sums up the process as follows: “Communicate, communicate and keep communicating.”