Native Realty, the industry disruptor and neighborhood placemaker led by CEO Jaime Sturgis, capped off a strong 2022 with the addition of experienced commercial real estate professional Donald VanBeach as a new Associate and Caren Davila as Senior Property Manager. VanBeach and Davila joined numerous talented and passionate brokers and property enthusiasts in becoming members of the Native family over the past year.
VanBeach has a diversified real estate background, with significant leasing, neighborhood curation and portfolio management experience. He previously served as Regional Property Director at the Altman Companies and Operations Analyst at Highmark Residential.
At Native, VanBeach applies his local knowledge and passion for helping leasing and investment sales clients achieve their goals. He is a graduate of Florida State University with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology.
Davila is responsible for the management of a variety of commercial properties in South Florida, overseeing everything from maintenance to accounting and relationship management. Native’s property management division – known as Native Management – offers flexibility, white glove experience and cutting-edge technology to property owners. It is equipped to serve owners of all sizes, from mom-and-pop investors with individual properties to institutional firms with portfolios of up to 10 million square feet.
Native Management utilizes proprietary technology to provide a one-stop digital platform accessible to owners and tenants 24 hours a day. Its centralized platform includes all property details, income statements, balance sheets and cash flow statements available at the click of a button. The technology dramatically streamlines rent collections, maintenance coordination, property accounting, vendor management and much more.
“Donald and Caren are fantastic new members of the Native family,” Sturgis said. “We have successfully bolstered our team of dynamic brokers and property managers this year and are strategically targeting the right professionals to further grow in 2023. We are creative dealmakers who work hard, love what we do and care deeply about the neighborhoods we spend time in,”
Native now operates from a new Fort Lauderdale office that is double the size of its previous headquarters. The 4,000-square-foot office is located at 1926 E. Sunrise Blvd. in the city’s Victoria Park neighborhood.
About Native Realty: Founded in 2017 by pioneering Fort Lauderdale-based commercial real estate broker Jaime Sturgis, Native Realty is disrupting the real estate industry and redefining what it means to be a broker. Sturgis and his team of passionate brokers specialize in leasing and investment sales in the urban core and emerging markets in South Florida. Instead of looking at individual listings and transactions in a vacuum, Native takes a holistic approach to the urban neighborhoods the company’s brokers live, work and play in. The firm is best known for its role curating Fort Lauderdale’s Flagler Village neighborhood, completing more than 1 million square feet in transactions in the last few years. It is now expanding its placemaking efforts to urban core neighborhoods throughout South Florida. Native works with all types of clients, from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses. Notable clients have included Coca-Cola, Integra Realty Resources, U.S.A. Parking and many more. Native is headquartered at 1926 E. Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale. For more information, visit www.nativerealty.com.
