NAI THOR Launches With Eye on Florida’s Gulf Coast

Two former executives with NAI KLNB have launched NAI THOR Commercial Group, a full-service brokerage firm serving Florida’s Gulf Coast. The firm’s principals are Brad Berzins, a 20-year industrial and investment sales broker who was formerly with NAI KLNB in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C.-Northern Virginia markets, and Andy Georgelakos, a former president of NAI KLNB. Their office will target Tampa, Sarasota, Fort Myers and Naples, among other markets. 

NAI THOR Commercial Group is the 12th NAI affiliate in Florida joining other major market offices in Miami, Orlando, Jacksonville and Fort Lauderdale. There are other offices currently opening in Tampa and Fort Myers, with Sarasoa and Naples coming online shortly.

NAI THOR Commercial Group has formed a strategic alliance with NAI Miami, led by Jeremy Larkin, allowing the firms to connect and serve Florida’s two largest markets in Tampa and Miami consisting of approximately 10 million people, along with the secondary markets that connect the two.

The combined companies will provide investment sales, landlord and tenant representation services in the industrial, flex, office, health & wellness and retail sectors.  The firm will also provide property management, real estate appraisal and debt placement services.

Berzins, who has worked as an industrial and investment sales broker in the Mid-Atlantic, has completed transactions valued at more than $1 billion throughout his career. He served on the KLNB Executive Committee and was instrumental in the firm becoming the largest and most profitable independently-owned brokerage company in the Mid-Atlantic region.

“Over the past several years, it has become increasingly apparent where the business and real estate growth in the United States is headed, including where clients and people want to be”, Berzins said in prepared remarks. “Andy moved to Ft. Myers several years ago and has been a huge proponent of the market for quite some time, and we have mutual clients in Florida that we have consulted with for years.”

The company will be “extremely aggressive” in attracting top brokerage talent to its team, Georgelakos added.

“We are looking for proven producers who wish to be engaged with a brokerage company offering opportunities to earn and become an owner in the brokerage company, which is among the clear differentiating points that made NAI KLNB successful, Berzins said. “We intend to structure a similar model that financially rewards our team for their contributions,” he added.

This includes the recruitment of Kevin Fitzgerald, the former head of NAI Southwest Florida and a veteran of the NAI network and a professional with more than 35 years of diverse commercial real estate experience who will assist with the growth of the Fort Myers and Naples offices.