Newmark hires co-head to grow healthcare finance team; Houston veteran launches retail brokerage; Kiser Group taps executive for multifamily expansion

Newmark said it hired Justin Shepherd as co-head and vice chairman of its U.S. healthcare capital markets practice, as the brokerage works to expand its national profile in the sector. Shepherd will be based in Newmark’s Irvine, California, office, and focus on medical outpatient building and other healthcare real estate sales, recapitalizations, joint venture equity and financing transactions nationwide, Newmark said.

A 15-year industry veteran, Shepherd has handled healthcare real estate transactions with a total value of more than $20 billion. He worked most recently at Eastdil Secured, where he served as a senior vice president and later as a director in the firm’s Orange County, California, office. Before that, he worked at real estate services firm JLL and CBRE. 

Lacee Jacobs launched Rebel Retail Advisors in Houston as its president and founder. Jacobs will handle leasing of urban mixed-use projects in the Houston area for Midway, where she previously served as senior vice president of strategic leasing and advisory for the investment and development firm, Rebel Retail said. The firm is led primarily by female executives and focuses on mixed-use and retail properties, representing clients in areas such as retail and restaurant leasing and consulting. 

Jacobs’ work at Midway included curating brands, managing partnerships and creating on-site experiences for owners and customers. Jacobs most recently served as senior managing director of retail leasing at Parkway. Before that, she worked CBRE as part of the brokerage’s urban leasing team in Houston.

Kiser Group hired Mike Mosher as chief of revenue production and said he will be based in North Carolina's Raleigh-Durham region. Kiser, a Chicago-based multifamily brokerage company, said Mosher will lead the company’s sales force, recruitment efforts and expansion into new service areas.

Mosher joined Kiser Group after prior work at investment firm VCAP and Capstone Cos. At Capstone he served as national head of sales and later as CEO. Since 2023, Kiser, led by principal Lee Kiser, has expanded beyond the Chicago region into other markets in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Minnesota. 

Maggie Holmes Dominguez joined JLL as a managing director in its capital markets group in Atlanta. Dominguez previously worked for more than a decade at Northmarq and its predecessor firm, Stan Johnson Co., where she led a team that specialized in single- and multitenant net-lease retail and industrial properties throughout the U.S. That team closed more than $1 billion worth of transactions.

She is now part of JLL’s national industrial capital markets team that executed more than $11.6 billion in industrial property dispositions and equity placements last year, according to JLL. Dominguez will focus on industrial investment sales and advisory services, the real estate service firm said.

Hanley Investment Group named Executive Vice President Jeff Lefko as a partner and head of the firm’s new San Diego office as it continues to expand in Southern California.

The Corona del Mar, California-based firm said a partnership agreement was reached between Lefko and Hanley President Ed Hanley.

Lefko joined Hanley Investment Group in 2015 and has handled transactions with a total value of more than $3 billion. Hanley Investment Group was started in 2005 and is focused on the sale of retail properties nationwide, working with investors, developers, owners and brokers. It has arranged transactions totaling more than $11.5 billion.