Vince Strake
Senior Vice President
Division
Brokerage Services
Specialty
Office Project Leasing
Market
Houston
Vince Strake - Senior Vice President - Partners Real Estate

Vince Strake is the Senior Vice President of Office Project Leasing at Partners. Prior to this role, he was Director of Houston Agency Leasing at Cushman & Wakefield and was responsible for leasing and marketing a 3.17 million square foot portfolio of premier Class-A office properties throughout Houston, Texas.

Vince brings over 11 years of commercial real estate experience to Partners and over his career has successfully represented over 8 million SF of Class-A office product and has negotiated over 350 leasing transactions totaling over 3.85 million square feet. In the last 3 years, Strake has been named a 2022 “Heavy Hitter” by the Houston Business Journal (topping the list at #19), has been awarded by REDnews as the winner of the 2021 “Emerging Leader of the Year” award and has been named a 2020 CoStar “Power Broker,” honoring the top office leasing brokers in Houston, Texas.

Prior to Cushman & Wakefield, Vince was Director of Leasing at Colvill Office Properties, which was acquired by C&W in 2020. During his 4 years at Colvill, Strake quickly completed over 145 Class-A office leasing transactions in multiple Houston submarkets totaling 1.23 million square feet. Prior to Colvill Office Properties, he served as an Associate at Transwestern and was responsible for leasing a 3 million square foot portfolio of office/flex assets. Within his 4 years at Transwestern, Vince successfully completed over 120 transactions totaling 700,000 square feet in over 50 buildings. In addition, he was elected by Transwestern executives to represent its corporate headquarters on its Emerging Leaders Council consisting of 20 individuals nationwide. Vince was also a founding board member of Transwestern Young Professionals (TYP) Group on a national level.

Accolades

2022 HBJ “Heavy Hitter” | Houston Business Journal
2021 Emerging Leader of the Year | RED News Houston
2020 “Power Broker” Award Houston | CoStar

Education

Baylor University | Hankamer School of Business
Bachelor of Business Adminstration (B.B.A.),
Finance and Real Estate

Buildings Represented

Premier Class-A buildings Vince has represented:

  • Enterprise Plaza (1100 Louisiana), 1.33 Million SF
  • 1415 Louisiana, 520,000 SF
  • 2500 CityWest, 578,000 SF
  • Kirby Grove (2925 Richmond Ave), 225,000 SF
  • Memorial Green (12525 Memorial Dr), 50,000 SF
  • Pinnacle Westchase (3010 Briarpark Dr), 471,000 SF
  • The Jones On Main (712 Main St), 800,000 SF
  • GreenStreet, 550,000 SF
  • 5POP (4400 Post Oak Pkwy), 567,000 SF
  • CityNorth (Buildings 1-6), 2.1 Million SF
  • Brookhollow Central, Buildings 1-3, 800,000 SF
Owners Represented

Institutional owners Vince has represented:

  • Hines
  • DWS
  • Enterprise
  • Lionstone Investments
  • LNR Partners
  • Midway Companies
  • Parmenter Realty Partners
  • PatrinelyGroup
  • Shorenstein Realty Services
  • USAA Real Estate
  • WEDGE Group Inc.