Three top brokers launch new CRE firm in Nashville market

Three top-performing brokers, formerly with Cushman & Wakefield’s Nashville office, have founded a new commercial real estate brokerage firm – RealSite Commercial – with offices in the Maryland Farms office park in Brentwood, Tennessee.

The firm’s principals – Ronnie Wenzler, Michael Havens and Madison Wenzler – bring significant experience in commercial, industrial, retail and mixed-use real estate to the new venture. The team has closed hundreds of millions of dollars of real estate leases and sales throughout their careers in the Middle Tennessee market, including nearly half a billion dollars’ worth of transactions in the past two years alone.

The founding team also includes Kelsey Thomasson as senior director. Thomasson formerly served as senior research analyst for CBRE’s Southeast Region and as director of research for the Nashville office of Colliers International.

Recent marquee transactions by firm principals in Middle Tennessee include the $56 million purchase and ongoing renovation of The Factory at Franklin, the $62 million sale of Airport Logistics Park Phase I and II, and the $20 million sale of a 300,000 -square-foot industrial park at 730 Freeland Station Road.  Notable clients the team has represented include Pella Windows,

Second Harvest Food Bank, United Methodist Church, Gibson Guitar, Irby, Infinity Hospitality and Alley-Cassetty

Overall, the three principals of RealSite Commercial have closed 382 real estate transactions valued at $493 million dollars since 2021, and in the past decade have generated more than $1 billion in total sales/lease volume.