Tom joined Cushman & Wakefield in 2018 as an Executive Director based in the firm’s global headquarters in downtown Chicago, Illinois. As a member of the firm’s national capital markets practice, Tom and his team advise institutional and private clients in the disposition, acquisition, recapitalization and financing of commercial real estate investment properties throughout Chicago and the entire Midwest region. Tom is also a member of Cushman & Wakefield’s National Life Sciences Investment Group.

Throughout his career, Mr. Sitz has been involved in successful investment real estate transactions across Chicago and the Midwest region with combined value in excess of $10 billion and covering approximately 60 million square feet of product. Mr. Sitz and his team’s broad transactional expertise and experience ranges from trophy high-rise office towers to boutique creative office buildings as well as the full spectrum of suburban and secondary Midwest market transactions. While focused primarily on office investment real estate, Tom and his team’s deep transactional experience also includes life sciences/R&D/lab, industrial/flex, retail, mixed-use and land properties.

Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Tom was with CBRE’s Capital Markets – Institutional Properties group where he and his team advised clients in the sale, recapitalization and financing of office investment real estate throughout the Chicago area and broader Midwest region. Prior to joining CBRE, Mr. Sitz and his team were with Grubb & Ellis (now Newmark) in the firm’s Institutional Capital Markets Group.