ABOUT COMMERCIAL AGENT Ash Parker

Ash Parker closed over 240 lease and sale transactions in the past six years and was 1 Producer in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016 at Richard Bowers & Company (RB&Co). Mr. Parker is a Vice President and has twenty years of transactional experience at RB&Co., where he specializes in third party office leasing and tenant representation. He has also represented clients in over sixty-five sale transactions including bank-owned REO property dispositions. Ash Parker has established a reputation as a highly adept negotiator and problem solver of complex space issues.

Mr. Parker's transaction experience also includes strategic planning and portfolio management for office and warehouse facilities. His goal in each transaction is to satisfy each client's operational, financial and cultural objectives as it relates to commercial real estate. He provides comprehensive financial analysis focused on balance sheet implications and demographic analysis centered around potential customer bases. Mr. Parker can advise clients on identifying tax credits available through opportunity zones and less developed census tracts. Ash Parker has the track record to work on any type of real estate transaction and emphasizes diligence, flexibility and speed in his commitment to client service.

Considered an industry expert, Mr. Parker is acknowledged as a contributor in the book, The Inside Track to Careers in Real Estate, which was published by the Urban Land Institute and written by Stan Ross, former Vice Chairman for Ernst & Young's Real Estate Division. Ash has published articles in widely read periodicals including Dorey's Office Guide, Real Estate Observer, and Bowers Digest, and has been quoted several times in the Atlanta Business Chronicle, GlobeSt.com, CityFeet, and Biznow.

Ash Parker grew up in Houston, TX and has lived in Atlanta, GA since 1998. He is an advocate of children walking to school, and for five years, Mr. Parker chaired the Safe Routes to School campaign at Morningside Elementary School. He initiated and successfully won a federal application for $500,000 which was spent on improving the sidewalks and intersections in the Virginia Highland and Morningside neighborhoods. Recently, Ash raised money to repair the Smith Park fountain at Monroe Dr.Piedmont Rd. intersection. For the past three years, Ash Parker coached the varsity girls lacrosse team at Grady High School, including the school's first two appearances in the state playoffs.

Mr. Parker also appeared as an extra in the movie, Stroke of Genius: The Legend of Bobby Jones. Ash usually knows his Halloween costume months in advance, and has been known to sport a handle bar mustache or a monkey tail beard.