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The Diversified Partners’ Investment Team: Supporting Investors from Start to Finish

Diversified Partners closed out 2025 with strong momentum across its retail investment platform, completing several notable fourth-quarter transactions that reflect improving demand for necessity-driven shopping centers and net-lease assets.

Behind those results is a highly collaborative investment team that supports investors from acquisition through disposition, aligning strategy, leasing execution and exit timing under one integrated platform.

The firm’s leasing and investment sales teams operate in close alignment, allowing investors to benefit from real-time market insight and consistent strategy throughout a property’s lifecycle. This integrated model ensures acquisitions are underwritten with exit strategy in mind and that leasing performance directly informs investment decisions.

Highly experienced experts

Diversified Partners’ expert investment team members hail from prestigious careers of successfully navigating complex commercial real estate markets. 

They apply decades of extensive experience and comprehensive market knowledge, combining their highly developed specialties to deftly execute high-value transactions.

  • John K. Jackson, Senior Vice President of Investment Sales

A respected real estate veteran, Jackson offers more than 20 years of experience in retail acquisitions, leasing and dispositions. This includes executing over 1,000 transactions and managing more than $300 million in retail assets, specializing in single-tenant net-lease assets, neighborhood centers and anchored retail.

  • Kristina R. Stamets, Vice President 

An award-winning industry leader, Stamets applies over 10 years of experience across retail acquisitions, leasing and dispositions and has skillfully led full acquisition and disposition processes. 

  • Colton Sanchez, Investment Analyst and Associate Broker

Working more than a decade across commercial real estate and global financial markets, Sanchez wields top expertise in financial modeling, asset valuation and capital sourcing.

  • Alexa Nunns, Associate Broker 

Nunns applies nuanced insight into transaction execution, market research and client relationship management. Specializing in retail, she contributes to tailored investment strategies and long-term value creation.

End-to-end, data-driven strategizing 

Investor demand continues growing nationwide for necessity-based retail assets in prime locations. The investment team applies its honed skillset to expertly meet this demand. Bridging the gap between asset lifecycle stages, they deliver a streamlined process to maximize cash flow and mitigate risks.

  • Strategic acquisitions

The team applies rigorous, data-driven market analysis to identify potentially high-performing opportunities and help investors swiftly secure them. Through a long-range planning approach, they connect qualified buyers with properties in high-traffic areas that can attract valuable tenants and deliver long-term growth.

  • High-value tenant attraction and retention

Targeting a healthy mix of top-tier regional and national tenants, the investment team carefully positions retail properties to feature their strongest qualities, successfully enticing tenants that meet community interests and needs. 

They strive to foster trusting relationships with investors and tenants alike, ensuring longer lasting partnerships predicated on mutually aligned goals.

  • Facilitating leasing transactions

The investment team expertly leads investors throughout the complexities of leasing transactions, offering direct support with facilitating, negotiating and problem solving. This includes conducting thorough financial reviews for tenant underwriting and ironing out lease agreement details, ensuring no detail goes overlooked.

  • Valuable asset enhancement

To maximize an asset’s profitability and functional value, the investment team actively identifies opportunities to upgrade and expand properties. This can achieve many benefits, including enhancing energy efficiency, modernizing facilities and repositioning a property to better serve the local market.

  • High-value dispositions

The investment team approaches selling, exchanging and transferring properties with careful intention and calculation. Ensuring the most profitable exit for investors, they strategically time each sale to align with investors’ goals and present assets to qualified buyers. The team manages every aspect of dispositions with the seller’s priorities top of mind.

Expertise in action

Applying their targeted strategies from acquisition through disposition, the investment team recently completed multiple high-profile transactions. This included successful closings across neighborhood shopping centers and single-tenant net-lease assets. 

Each transaction reflected the team’s commitment to rigorous market analysis, long-term strategizing and meaningful communication between investors and tenants.  

These transactions included:

  • The sale of a Phoenix retail center for $8.42 million, achieving 13% above the reserve price. Positioned directly across from the $850 million Metrocenter redevelopment, the property’s high-value location generated significant investor interest. The offering attracted 181 executed confidentiality agreements prior to sale.

  • The sale of a retail center for $16.25 million at a 6.89% cap rate. The center was 100% occupied at the time of sale following proactive leasing execution and tenant mix optimization.

  • The sale of a single-tenant Whataburger property for $2.53 million. The absolute net-lease asset traded at a 4.9% cap rate, reflecting continued investor demand for high-credit, long-term net-lease investments.

Comprehensive investment services

As capital markets remain selective, the investment team’s disciplined, relationship-driven approach positions investors to capitalize on well-located retail assets while mitigating risk. With continued momentum heading into 2026, Diversified Partners remains focused on delivering measurable results through full-lifecycle retail investment execution.

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