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Most Complete Public Record
NAI Hallmark
Founding year, dated transaction volume, three square footage figures, headcount, address, research, and five named submarkets
Quick Picks
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Only Firm To Address Licensing
Prime Realty
The only firm across five Florida markets that says anything at all about its licensing
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Best Third Party Recognition
Pine Street RPS
CoStar Power Broker recognition with a named individual and specific award years
Market Overview
Jacksonville Commercial Brokerage Market
Jacksonville produced the single most complete public record of any firm measured across five Florida markets, and it belongs to a locally owned brokerage rather than a national brand. NAI Hallmark publishes a founding year, a transaction volume with a stated time period attached, three separate square footage figures, a headcount, a street address, market reports, and five named submarkets. Every category this research measures, filled in. Across twenty one firms in five cities, nothing else came close. Jacksonville also broke the longest running finding in this series. In Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Tampa, and Orlando, not one firm said anything about its brokerage licensing. Here, Prime Realty states it is licensed in both Florida and Georgia. That is not a license number, and it does not make the firm more capable than the others, but it is the first time in this entire series that licensing appeared on a page at all, which says something about how rarely the industry volunteers it.
- Commercial brokers category overview How this category is defined and what gets measured in every city.
- Jacksonville market snapshot Largest employers, buyer corridors, and the market context these firms compete in.
- Jacksonville local SEO companies The agencies competing to rank these firms, measured on the same disclosure standard.
- Orlando commercial brokers Where a firm published credentials instead of numbers, the other answer to being verifiable.
Provider Profiles
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NAI Hallmark
The most complete public record of any firm measured across Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and Jacksonville. It publishes a founding year of 1993, 1.25 billion dollars in sales and leases since 2022, and three separate square footage figures: 1.14 million sold, 1.25 million leased, and 6.5 million managed in Northeast Florida. Attaching since 2022 to the volume figure is the detail that matters most, because it is the one thing almost no firm in this series does, and without it a volume number cannot be turned into a pace. It also publishes 65 professionals, a Riverside Avenue address, market reports plus a Learning Center covering industrial, retail, and office, and five named submarkets including Southpoint, Downtown, St. Johns County, and the Northside. Every category this research measures is filled in.
Strengths
- Transaction volume published with a stated time period attached
- Three distinct square footage figures separating sold, leased, and managed
- Founding year, headcount, address, research, and five named submarkets all published
Watchouts
- No pricing or engagement terms published
- Florida brokerage license number not published on the page reviewed
- Square footage figures carry no stated period, unlike the volume figure
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Cushman and Wakefield
This office completes a five market picture of a single national firm, and the variation is the finding. Across its Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and Jacksonville pages, all five publish a street address, a direct phone, and linked MarketBeat research. Only Tampa publishes a founding year. Only Jacksonville publishes no local headcount, where the other four publish 75, 125, 250, and more than 50 respectively. The research across Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and Jacksonville carries the same named author and the same 24 July 2026 date, which tells a reader the coverage is centralized rather than written market by market. None of that is a criticism of the work. It does mean that judging a national brand by one city's page will mislead you about another.
Strengths
- Full address, direct phone, and stated office hours
- Research carries a named author and a publication date
- Same six service lines available as the firm's larger Florida offices
Watchouts
- The only one of this firm's five Florida offices publishing no local headcount
- No founding year and no local transaction record
- Florida brokerage license number not published on the page reviewed
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Prime Realty
The only firm in this entire five city series that says anything about its licensing. Across twenty one firms in Fort Lauderdale, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and Jacksonville, every other comparison recorded the same finding, that no brokerage license information appeared on the page reviewed. Prime Realty states it is licensed in both Florida and Georgia. That is a statement of scope rather than a license number, and it is not verification on its own, but it is the first acknowledgment of the subject anywhere in this research. It also names three submarkets individually, Murray Hill for retail, Southside for industrial, and San Marco for multifamily, tying each to a property type rather than listing them generically. Leadership is named as Tyler Saldutti, a fourth generation real estate entrepreneur. Publishes a Jax Industrial Brief but no recurring report series, no address, and no volume or headcount figures.
Strengths
- Only firm in the series to address licensing at all
- Three submarkets named and each tied to a specific property type
- Named leadership with stated multigenerational background
Watchouts
- No street address published
- No transaction volume, square footage, or headcount
- Since 2008 describes client reliance, not a formation date
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Pine Street RPS
The only firm in this series leading with third party recognition rather than self-reported figures. It publishes CoStar Power Broker recognition and names Mark Wainwright among top industrial leasing brokers for 2023 and 2024, with specific award years attached. That is a meaningfully different kind of evidence from a transaction total on a website, because CoStar compiles the rankings from recorded transaction data rather than from a firm's own claim. It also publishes a portfolio exceeding 2,500,000 square feet. Against that, it publishes no address, no founding year, no headcount, no market research, and names no submarket, referring to Jacksonville and Northeast Florida generally.
Strengths
- Third party CoStar recognition with named individual and specific years
- Publishes a portfolio square footage figure
- Clear industrial specialization
Watchouts
- No street address, founding year, or headcount
- No submarkets named
- No market research published
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The Cordell Group
Publishes a street address, and notably an Atlantic Beach one rather than a downtown Jacksonville one, which places the firm in the Beaches the way Oyova is placed in the local SEO comparison for this same city. It is also the only firm in this set naming urban infill and vacant acreage as distinct categories, which are genuinely different assignments from warehouse or office leasing and require different entitlement knowledge. Beyond the address and the service list, the public record is thin: no founding year, no transaction volume, no square footage, no headcount, no market research, and no named submarkets.
Strengths
- Street address published, in the Beaches rather than downtown
- Urban infill and vacant acreage named as distinct specializations
- Site selection and investment analysis named separately from brokerage
Watchouts
- No founding year, volume, square footage, or headcount
- No market research published
- No Jacksonville submarkets named
Buyer Checklist
- Attach a time period to every volume claim One firm here publishes 1.25 billion dollars since 2022. That is the only volume figure in five Florida markets that arrives with a period attached, and it is the only one a buyer can turn into a pace.
- Prefer third party recognition over self-reported figures CoStar Power Broker rankings are compiled from recorded transaction data. A volume total on a firm's own website is compiled by the firm.
- Ask about licensing even though nobody volunteers it Across twenty one firms in five Florida markets, exactly one said anything about licensing at all, and that was scope rather than a number. Ask for the license number and verify it free through the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation.
- Ask whether a square footage figure is sold, leased, or managed One firm here separates all three. Most publish a single blended number that measures whichever business is largest.
- Do not judge a national brand by another city's page One national firm publishes a local headcount in four Florida markets and omits it in this one. The brand is constant; the local page is not.
- Ask which submarket the team actually works Southpoint, Downtown, the Northside, St. Johns County, and the Beaches trade differently. Two firms here name submarkets individually and three do not name any.
- Separate a client reliance claim from a formation date Clients have relied on us since 2008 is not the same statement as the company was formed in 2008, and only one of the two tells you how long the entity has existed.
FAQ
Who is the best commercial real estate broker in Jacksonville?
This research does not name one. On the public record, NAI Hallmark publishes the most complete disclosure of any firm measured across five Florida markets, Pine Street RPS publishes the strongest third party recognition, and Prime Realty is the only firm in the entire series to address licensing. Those are disclosure findings, not competence rankings.
Does a local firm really out-disclose the national brands?
In Jacksonville, yes, and by a wide margin. NAI Hallmark publishes a founding year, a dated transaction volume, three square footage figures, a headcount, an address, research, and five submarkets. The national firm in this same comparison publishes an address, a phone, and linked research, and does not publish a headcount here even though it does in four other Florida markets. Brand size and disclosure quality turned out to be unrelated across this entire series.
Why does it matter that only one firm mentioned licensing?
Because commercial brokerage is a licensed activity and the license is the one fact about a firm that verifies free, instantly, against a state database. Across twenty one firms in five markets, twenty said nothing about it. That is not evidence of any problem at any firm. It is evidence that the industry does not treat its own licensing as a selling point, which leaves the single most checkable fact about a brokerage off the page.
What property types define the Jacksonville market?
Industrial runs through every firm in this set, which tracks with Jacksonville's port and logistics base. Two firms name categories the others do not: urban infill and vacant acreage at one, and medical and multifamily at another. Office and retail appear everywhere. The submarket language clusters around Southpoint, Downtown, the Northside, St. Johns County, and the Beaches.
How often is this comparison updated?
Every figure here reflects what the firm published as of 20 September 2026. Research claims, award years, and quarterly reports move, so the date on this page matters more than it would for a static directory listing.
Methodology: This comparison reviews what each firm publishes on its own public pages, not the quality of its brokerage work. Office addresses, headcounts, founding dates, transaction figures, award recognition, licensing statements, property types, and research publication were all read directly from each firm's website on 20 September 2026 and are reported as firm claims unless a public record confirms them. No transaction volume, square footage, or portfolio figure here has been independently verified. Third party awards are reported as published by the firm and were not confirmed against the awarding body. Cross-market comparisons of the same national firm reflect what each local office page published on that date and may change independently of each other. Brokerage licensing was checked for publication on the reviewed pages only; a statement of licensed states is not a license number and is not verification. Actual license standing for any firm remains verifiable through the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation. Best Local X is not a brokerage, does not represent any party in a transaction, and does not accept placement fees for inclusion in this comparison.