NAI Horizon Managing Director Laurel Lewis has earned the SIOR office designation awarded by the Society of Industrial and Office REALTORS®.
SIOR is the world’s premier commercial real estate organization for industrial and office professionals. Individuals who earn their SIOR designation adhere to the highest levels of accountability and ethical standards. Only the industry’s top professionals qualify for the SIOR designation, to which there are 3,700 members in 722 cities and 45 countries.
SIOR represents today’s most knowledgeable, experienced, and trusted commercial real estate brokerage specialists, and these individuals are proven experts in their market and leaders in the industry.
SIOR is a Washington, D.C.-based international professional organization of more than 3,200 commercial real estate professionals whom have earned the coveted SIOR designation.
To achieve the SIOR designation, Lewis completed at least 5 years of creditable experience in the highly specialized field of office real estate; met stringent education requirements; and demonstrated professional ability, competency, ethical conduct, and personal integrity. SIOR enforces a strict code of ethics and required designees to complete its ethics course within their first three years of membership.
Lewis, who joined NAI Horizon in 2010, is focused on the representation of both landlords and tenants through the sale and leasing of multi-tenant office properties and owner-user buildings throughout Metro Phoenix. She has facilitated more than $180 million of commercial real estate transactions and has sold more than $100 million of office properties.
“I am eager to connect with other global SIOR professionals and thought leaders,” Lewis said. “Designees have been vetted to meet standards of excellence and honesty, thus serving our clients in the best way possible.”
Lewis was named to AZRE magazine’s 2023 People to Know in Commercial Real Estate and 2018 Most Influential Women in Commercial Real Estate. She is a force both in the field and in the community. Her expertise in office properties is consistently recognized at NAI Horizon and in the Metro Phoenix commercial real estate community. She was NAI Horizon’s 2019 Top Producer and consistently ranks on that prestigious list. She was the No. 3 Top Producer of 2022.
She is a member of, AZCREW, NAI Global Women’s Alliance, Valley Partnership, ULI Arizona, and serves on the DEI and WLI committees of ULI. She currently is a volunteer with Andre House, a Phoenix non-profit that provides for the unsheltered.