Coldwell Banker Commercial, Carlsbad, CA

Alan Scott, CCIM - President & CEO

Investment Specialist / Founding Partner

ascott@almargroup.com
North County (main) 760-602-4800
Towne Centre (main) 858-200-8888

Alan Scott, CCIM, is co-Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Coldwell Banker Commercial Almar Real Estate Group, Inc. (CBC Almar), one of San Diego, California’s leading commercial brokerage real estate firms. One of the region’s most distinguished commercial real estate professionals, Mr. Scott’s 40-year career includes executive positions with several leading brokerage firms and the completion of nearly $1 billion in transactions, including nationwide portfolios, net leased investments, multifamily, office, industrial and retail investment properties.

Mr. Scott’s entrepreneurial vision and forward-thinking leadership have played a key role in CBC Almar’s fast rise to becoming Coldwell Banker Commercial’s “Number One” affiliate in the nation for the last six consecutive years. Founded in May 1999, CBC Almar has completed more than $3 billion in sales and leases, representing millions of square feet of properties in the San Diego, North County and Temecula regions of California. In just eight years, the firm has grown under his management from a small brokerage with 10 sales professionals operating only in North County and Temecula, to a company of 60 employees, including 45 sales professionals, successfully doing business throughout all of San Diego County.


Alan Scott

At the helm of the organization, Mr. Scott oversees corporate strategic planning, business development and strategic implementation, while lending his sophisticated, transactional expertise to the firm’s complex and high-profile investment sales and leasing assignments for institutional and private investors.

CBC Almar’s continued high performance has earned the group recognition with Coldwell Banker Commercial’s sixth consecutive, annual Commercial Elite Award in 2006 – one of the highest and most prestigious honors that any Coldwell Banker Commercial affiliate can achieve.

Among CBC Almar’s recent awards and recognition was Coldwell Banker Commercial’s 2005 Spring Arcade Award, which is presented annually to the one office whose operation exemplifies the characteristics of those who worked in the first commercial branch office, established in 1922 in the Spring Arcade Building in Los Angeles, California. The San Diego County Commercial Realtors Association also recognized CBC Almar for the Transaction of the Year for Investment sales in 2005 and for Land Sales in 2006.

CBC Almar’s recent prestigious projects have included:

  • CBC’s Land Transaction of the Year and the SIOR Transaction of the Year: CBC Almar is exclusively engaged to arrange the sale of the 75+-acre Queen’s Seaport Development area in Long Beach, which includes the fabled, 72-year-old Queen Mary ocean liner.
  • CBC Almar represented the seller in the $84.5 million deal for Villages of La Mesa in La Mesa, CA, which consists of 384 luxury apartments to become condominiums.
  • CBC’s Industrial Transaction of the Year 2005: CBC Almar represented the buyer and seller in the $42.9 million sale of the Mark ll Business Park, a 239,000-square-foot mixed-use industrial, office and retail tenant park on 16 acres in San Diego.
  • Previously, Mr. Scott served as senior vice president and managing director of investment services for Wilson Mile High Corporation in San Diego. During his tenure there, Scott was involved in investment acquisition and disposition engagements totaling $165 million.

    Mr. Scott’s prior experience includes serving as senior vice president and Western States director of institutional services for Grubb & Ellis Company, following a 20-year tenure with Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate Services in San Diego, where he was progressively promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Capital Markets Group. Mr. Scott also spent several years with CB Investment Properties, a Coldwell Banker commercially owned entity, where he earned the title of vice president and regional marketing director, Western United States.

    Scott graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration. He is a licensed real estate broker with the State of California, and holds a CCIM designation. He is currently an active member with the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), the San Diego Apartment Rental Owner’s Association, the National Apartment rental Owners’ Association, and the National Multi-Housing Council.

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