Jim Achen

Jim specializes primarily in the leasing and sales of office properties on behalf of private, institutional, entrepreneurial and developer clients.

Jim’s clients include SSR Realty Advisors/MetLife, Westfund, Allstate, Princeton, Northridge Capital, Mitsubishi Capital, Lowe Enterprises, Roth Development, BlackRock Realty Advisors, MC Realty, Younan Properties, Thrivent, The Presson Companies, SKB, and Transwestern Investment Company. Jim has successfully completed hundreds of transactions with companies such as Qwest, the USDA, GSA, The Hartford, American Express, Liberty Mutual, Verizon, Ottawa University, Collins College, Charles Schwab, U.S. Food Service and Arizona Department of Revenue. Jim and Bill Zurek completed the largest lease transaction in Phoenix in 2004; American Express for 169,071 square feet. During the last several years, Jim and Bill have averaged in excess of 500,000 square feet of lease transactions annually and have been involved in approximately $100,000,000 of property sales. Jim has been active in Phoenix commercial real estate brokerage since 1992, and during that time he has been a consistent top producer and been awarded Presidents Club (previous company) and Champions Club production awards based on exceptional achievement.

Jim is an active member of the following organizations: CCIM Valley Partnership National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) ULI

Jim graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business.