Lent Howard, LEED® AP

Vice President

Two Transamerica Center

505 Sansome Street, Suite 300

San Francisco, CA 94111

T 415.229.8972

F 415.229.8987

lhoward@gvakm.com

LIC # 01251822

 

Career Summary

Lent is a fifth-generation San Franciscan, with a rich, family history in local, San Francisco, commercial  real estate, extending as far back as the 1850’s. He began his own real estate career as a top-producing, residential loan officer when he joined Headlands Mortgage Co., in 1996. Prior to that, he managed several well-known Bay Area restaurants, starting while still in college.

In early 1999, Lent joined the San Francisco office of Colliers International, to pursue a career in downtown commercial brokerage. Early on at Colliers, Lent had the good fortune of being mentored in the disciplines of office leasing and investment sales, by some of the market’s leading experts in each. He has since established himself as a local market expert in his own right, having represented numerous local and national clients.

Toward the end of his more than ten years with Colliers, Lent teamed with Barton Damner. Though they had started their commercial brokerage careers at Colliers International within a couple months of each other, and have been friends and colleagues for many years, they had always worked independently of each other. However, with the concept of Sustainability becoming ever more prevelant in the real estate industry, they discovered that they shared a common passion for the idea of responsible real estate; and, out of that common passion, as well as their complimentary skill sets, their partnership was born. Shortly afterward, in August, 2009, Lent and Bart joined the San Francisco office of GVA Kidder Mathews, believing that the atmosphere and ideals of GVAKM were more ideally suited to fostering their partnership and ideals.

Lent and Bart firmly believe that, by employing a responsible and thoughtful approach to the process of selecting real estate, guided in part by sustainable values, their clients can greatly enhance their company’s productivity, profitability and profile. It is, therefore, their primary objective to ensure that a strategic plan is developed to maximize the potential of their clients’ real estate, as pertains to their primary business objectives.

Properly conceived and implemented, a company’s work environment can contribute a myriad of residual benefits to their bottom line. It can ensure a healthier and, therefore, more productive work force; it can provide more efficiency in energy consumption and space utilization; it can be more ideally located to take advantage of tax breaks, public transportation and/or employment demographics; and, it can even enhance a company’s profile within their community. Securing the right work environment is more than just negotiating the cheapest rent!

Lent’s unique experience(s) and training offer his clients an uncommonly deep repository of knowledge and expertise relating to commercial real estate. And, now, teamed with Barton Damner, they offer their own unique talents coupled with their shared passion for sustainability, a value fundamental to the core beliefs of their practice.

Selected Investment Sales Transactions

Selected Office Listing Experience

Education and Interests

Lent graduated from UC Berkeley, with a B.A. in Political Science, in 1992. He is a participating member of the Greater Bay Area Make-A-Wish Foundation’s Finance Committee; and, was formerly the Chairman of BizWorld Foundation’s California Advisory Council (an organization founded by Tim Draper, of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, to educate children about business, entrepreneurship and financial literacy). On a weekly basis, he volunteers his time, caring for sick and injured seals and sea lions, at The Marine Mammal Center, in The Marin Headlands.