Bentley Smith

Bentley Smith is a Senior Vice President with CBRE’s Institutional Properties team. Located in Minneapolis, MN, he has more than 10 years of industrial sales and leasing experience within the commercial real estate profession. Bentley specializes in representing institutional, private, and corporate clients in the acquisition, disposition and sourcing the equity capital stack in industrial real estate transactions. Bentley began his career with CBRE in 2018 and has been involved in more than 400 transactions, valued at over $12 billion and totaling over 160 MSF.

Bentley is a member of CBRE National Partners, a collaborative national partnership formed in 2010 that focuses exclusively on industrial and logistics capital markets. Located in fourteen key markets, the 98 investment sales and support professionals connect local market expertise to a national capital markets perspective. Enhanced by a fully integrated debt platform, National Partners provides strategic advisory guidance to maximize proceeds and enhance the surety of execution for national, regional and local clients. Since formation, the partnership successfully completed transactions totaling 3.6 billion sq. ft. with an aggregate value of $68.2 billion. In 2023, the team successfully completed transactions totaling 119 million sq. ft. with an aggregate value of $12.8 billion. Please visit our website at www.cbre.com/np.

The North Central NP professionals consist of six capital markets partners, nine dedicated support team members, and four financial analysts covering the Midwest markets of Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Columbus, Cincinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee and SE Wisconsin.

Prior to joining the Institutional Properties team at CBRE, Bentley was an analyst for HFF in Austin, Texas where he underwrote and helped facilitate the sale of over $1.3 billion worth of investment properties in the Austin and San Antonio markets. Prior to his work at HFF, Bentley was a Senior Associate for Colliers International in Austin, Texas focused on industrial and logistics leasing in Austin, Texas.

Education

• University of St. Thomas - Bachelor of Arts; Business Marketing
• Mr. Smith currently holds a real estate license in Minnesota

Professional Affiliations / Accreditations

• Member of NAIOP (National Association of Industrial and Office Properties)
• Member of MNCAR (Minnesota Commercial Association of Real Estate)
• MREJ “Most Significant Industrial Sale Transaction” 2021
• Finance & Commerce – 2020 Rising Young Professional
• CBRE Minneapolis Rookie of the Year- 2019
• Associate of the Year – Colliers International, Austin, TX- 2015- 2016

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