KansasOffice Block Real Estate Services’ Ken Block wins big SIOR honor May 31, 2018 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share via email Kenneth Block, managing principal of Kansas City, Missouri-based Block Real Estate Services, earlier this year earned a Top Transactions award for 2017 from the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors. Block closed the $305 million sale of a 2.2-million-square-foot office space in Overland Park, Kansas. This ranked as the second-largest transaction awarded by SIOR during the society’s awards event. The only bigger sale was the $475 million sale of more than 7.7 million square feet of industrial space in the Chicago, Columbus, Memphis, Houston, Dallas and Atlanta markets. In 2017, 600 SIOR members reported 2,000 transactions totaling $10 billion in leases and sales in the industrial, office, investment, land, alternative assets and redevelopment sectors.