Seattle, WA (November 9, 2018) – Kidder Mathews commercial real estate brokers, Holly Yang and Linda Lee have been recognized in the second annual Women in Real Estate Awards from Connect Media, an online publication that covers commercial real estate news. Out of more than 300 submissions, Lee has been recognized as a winner for California and Yang has been recognized as a national winner.
The Women in Real Estate Awards honors women in commercial real estate who have reached respected positions of leadership, and play key mentorship roles for others in the industry. The award recognizes ten national winners covering the United States and ten leaders each from California, Chicago, Texas, and New York.
Holly Yang is a lead member of the Kidder Mathews China Services practice and provides preeminent bilingual brokerage service to cross-border investors and bridges the gap between United States and China. She has spoken at a multitude of forums and seminars as an expert on the United States-China investment front. Holly has been in the commercial real estate industry for 12 years. She works in Kidder Mathews’ Bellevue office and specializes in the acquisition and disposition of investment/ development properties. She also mentors, coaches, and leads Kidder Mathews China Service Group in the Pacific Northwest and developed the team platform to what it is today. Holly holds the CCIM designation and has brokered over 120 sales transactions and over $400 million in transaction volume. She is a board director in Washington State China Relations Council (WSCRC) and chairs its United States-China Women’s Leadership Committee.
Linda Lee recently joined Kidder Mathews in their newest office in Glendale, California. She is an office leasing specialist and has worked in the commercial real estate industry for over 18 years. Lee is responsible for the marketing and leasing of 11 Class A office buildings totaling more than 900,000 square feet and multiple tenant representation assignments. She represents landlords in maximizing their asset value, tenants in reducing the cost of occupancy, and buyers and sellers of owner-user and investment properties. Lee holds the CCIM designation and has been involved in transactions totaling over $1 billion in value. She has been featured in the nationally published real estate Forum as one of the “Top 30 Under 30” and “Top 40 Under 40” commercial real estate professionals and she was recently selected as Outstanding Junior Business Woman of the Year from the annual Women in Business Legislative Update and Awards.
About Women in Real Estate Awards
Connect Media’s Women in Real Estate Awards is an annual award honoring women whose talent, drive and fresh ideas have helped her succeed and become influential in commercial real estate. The award seeks to honor the achievements and inspirational stories of women who have reached respected positions of leadership, and play key mentorship roles for others in commercial real estate.
About Kidder Mathews
Kidder Mathews is the largest independently owned commercial real estate firm on the West Coast, with more than 700 real estate professionals and staff in 21 offices in Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, and Arizona. Kidder Mathews offers a complete range of brokerage, appraisal, property management, consulting, project & construction management, and debt & equity finance services for all property types. The firm performs $7 billion in transactions, manages over 50 million square feet of space, and conducts 1,500 appraisals annually. For more information, visit kiddermathews.com.
