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Joe joined Swisher Commercial and acquired his real estate license in 1995, earned his Associate Broker license in 2017, and his CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member) designation in 2018. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and served in the Army’s elite 82nd Airborne Division.Joe is a problem-solver. Being a middle child in a big family he is a diehard mediator, and in conflicts cuts throughperipheral concerns to focus on a path to the best possible solution for his clients—always striving for win-win.With his accounting, physical plant, organization and relationship abilities, his start in commercial real estate wasbuilding the operations side of a real estate management enterprise. Since 2010, Joe has also served clients in leasing, sales, and hands-on property management. He applies his problem-solving skills to remove obstacles so landlords and tenants or buyers and sellers can come to agreement. Heenjoys the challenge of assisting clientele that have a diversity of goals, backgrounds, and product types, providing them a broker with a breadth of experiences and understanding.Serving as a property manager, Joe strives to keep building issues off the list of concerns for owners and occupants. He eschews quick fixes and prefers researching for long-term efficiencies. He is responsive to tenant service needs, elicits quality work by seeing each contractor eye-to-eye, and is proficient in financial reporting and lease administration.

Kris has more than 20 years of experience successfully representing all aspects of commercial real estate transactions for owners, landlords, tenants and buyers. His focus is primarily industrial, land, and hi-tech transactions in Oakland and Macomb County, however he brokers transactions internationally to service his client's ever-changing needs of expanding into global markets. He stays well informed of rapidly changing industry developments and provides unique solutions in a wide range of real estate disciplines involving negotiations that benefit everyone in the deal to create win-win scenarios in each transaction. Kris' persistence, strong work ethic, multi-market and industry knowledge, attention to detail, and community involvement are traits behind his ability to service all of his clients' needs forming unparalleled long-term bonds with each client he comes in contact with to ensure client satisfaction. This unique ability to problem solve, successfully negotiate real estate transactions and define needs of singular situations that benefit all parties is the driving force behind his success in the industry.

Kris has held the prestigious World Class Club Award every year since 2006; has been the recipient of multiple CoStar Power Broker Awards, has been CoStar's #1 transactional broker for the State of Michigan for 2010, 2011 (#2), 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 (#2), 2021, and 2022 Signature Associates' Most Improved Broker for 2011; recipient of Personal Best Award in 2015; Career Best Award 2021 and voted to Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson's Elite 40 under 40 Class.