ONTARIO, CA—Institutional Property Advisors has expanded its national team of senior advisors with the addition of Alexander Garcia.

Garcia will be an IPA senior director covering the Inland Empire. He and IPA senior directors Stewart Weston and Christopher Zorbas have formed a team focused on serving clients in Orange County, San Diego County and the Inland Empire.

Garcia has represented major apartment investors and institutional clients in the Inland Empire and Eastern San Gabriel Valley markets throughout his 25-year career with Marcus & Millichap. He has closed more than $1 billion in transactions.

“Alex has an outstanding appreciation of the forces driving the investment real estate marketplace in the Inland Empire,” says Brian Murdy, national director of IPA. “His knowledge and expertise, combined with Stew's and Chris's, will be of great benefit to institutional and major private clients interested in Orange County, San Diego County and the Inland Empire.”

IPA is a division of Marcus & Millichap that serves the needs of institutional and major private real estate investors.

“One of the hallmarks of the IPA platform is the depth of service the firm's national network of institutionally qualified real estate investment professionals provides to clients,” says Hessam Nadji, Marcus & Millichap's chief strategy officer. “Adding high-caliber brokerage advisors in major markets is a key element in our drive to provide investors with access to institutional investment opportunities, industry-leading research and unrivaled transaction execution.”

A senior director of Marcus & Millichap's National Multi Housing Group, Garcia joined the firm in 1989. He was promoted to senior associate in 1994 and to senior vice president investments in 2008. Garcia is a California State Polytechnic University, Pomona graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in communications.