WeCann Wins 2022 CoStar Power Broker Award for Top Firm & Broker
by Roger Tower on March 13, 2023
The CoStar Power Broker™ recognizes the best of the best in Commercial Real Estate.
The CoStar Power Broker Award program, by the leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics and online marketplaces, has honored the industry’s elite for 23 years.
Recipients of the award were professionals and firms who closed the highest transaction volume in commercial real estate deals in their respective markets. Please help us in congratulating Jason Piazza and Meilad Rafiei on their recent achievement.
Top Retail Leasing Brokers Award
“The majority of brokerages on the awards list are nationally recognized firms and I could not be more proud of our success to be on this short list, especially as a cannabis specific firm.”
– Meilad Rafiei, CEO, WeCann and CREC
“Being selected as a Top Power Broker and Firm is a huge honor and major testament to the hard work of our supporting team, partners, and agents who have been key to closing our commercial real estate deals.”
– Jason Piazza, Director of Real Estate, WeCann and CREC
Thanks to the drive and expertise of the WeCann team, we’ve been awarded the industry’s most prestigious award, honoring top brokers and firms in commercial real estate. Our cumulative 2022 deals reported to CoStar, have been measured against all brokers in the local market to identify us as a CoStar Power Broker Individual Retail Lease winner.
Top Retail Leasing Brokers Awards in Orange County
| Name | Company |
| Meilad Rafiei | WeCann |
| Jason Piazza | WeCann |
| Jennifer Meade | DJM Capital Partners, Inc. |
| Patricia Apel | DJM Capital Partners, Inc. |
| Jim Davis | Irvine Company Retail Properties |
| Kevin Hansen | Newmark |
| Terrison Quinn | SRS Real Estate Partners |
| Carol Springstead | Springstead & Associates |
| Matthew Hammond | Coreland Companies |
| Terry Bortnick | Axiom Retail Advisors |
About the CoStar Power Broker Awards
“Each year CRE professionals have the opportunity to submit their closed sale and lease transactions to be considered toward the Annual Power Broker Award. CoStar then verifies and analyzes thousands of deals submitted to identify winners in each market (based on cumulative deals; SF and PSF). Recognized as the premiere industry award, both the firms and brokers have the opportunity to obtain this recognition which places you among the industry’s elite.” Learn more about the awards
About CoStar Group, Inc.
CoStar Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSGP) is the leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics and online marketplaces. Founded in 1987, CoStar conducts expansive, ongoing research to produce and maintain the largest and most comprehensive database of commercial real estate information. Our suite of online services enables clients to analyze, interpret and gain unmatched insight on commercial property values, market conditions and current availabilities. STR provides premium data benchmarking, analytics and marketplace insights for the global hospitality sector. Ten-X provides a leading platform for conducting commercial real estate online auctions and negotiated bids. LoopNet is the most heavily trafficked commercial real estate marketplace online. Apartments.com, ApartmentFinder.com, ForRent.com, ApartmentHomeLiving.com, Westside Rentals, AFTER55.com, CorporateHousing.com, ForRentUniversity.com and Apartamentos.com form the premier online apartment resource for renters seeking great apartment homes and provide property managers and owners a proven platform for marketing their properties. Homesnap is an industry-leading online and mobile software platform that provides user-friendly applications to optimize residential real estate agent workflow and reinforce the agent-client relationship. Homes.com offers real estate professionals advertising and marketing services for residential properties. CoStar Group’s websites attract tens of millions of unique monthly visitors. Headquartered in Washington, DC, CoStar maintains offices throughout the U.S. and in Europe, Canada and Asia with a staff of approximately 4,900 worldwide, including the industry’s largest professional research organization. For more information, visit www.costargroup.com.
Note: CoStar uses estimated market rents to determine lease deal winners when actual rents are unavailable. For the purposes of ranking lease transactions, a 1-year lease term is applied to all lease transactions. CoStar’s estimated sale prices may be used and displayed when actual sale prices cannot be obtained. For sales transactions that span multiple markets, CoStar may display “ Not Disclosed” to indicate that individual estimated sale prices for each property could not be determined.
