Lexie Perticone, 28
Director at Cushman & Wakefield
Lexie Perticone almost ended up in Boston. That’s where a lot of alums from her Colby College in Maine gravitated toward professionally.
She veered from that fate shortly before graduation in 2017, when the Connecticut native cold-pitched over LinkedIn a Colby alum then working at Cushman & Wakefield. That alum in turn told her about the company’s PREP program, a de facto boot camp for industry newcomers.
Entry into PREP made Perticone’s decision easy: Gotham instead of Beantown.
She has been at Cushman & Wakefield for more than six years, working on both the tenant and landlord sides of leasing deals on a team led by Louis D’Avanzo and Michael Baraldi. Her team has worked on more than 150 transactions equating to around 6 million square feet globally in 2022 in 2023. That includes a 90,000-square-foot deal for a life sciences company in Queens’ Long Island City and 95,000 square feet for a financial institution at 277 Park Avenue. The largest deal she’s been involved with so far was repping owner Fisher Brothers on corporate law firm Katsky Korins’ expansion this fall at 605 Third Avenue.
Perticone’s remit is national, though, and the focus of the former college lacrosse player means she can see around the corners of the market.
“I am a firm believer that we’ve gone through the worst of it,” Perticone said of the office market. “Footprints might be shrinking but budgets — knock on wood — are staying the same or increasing; and there’s a lot more thought going into, ‘What is this office going to look like?’ as opposed to a transaction that is just lease expiration driven.”
That involves a near constant state of prep for the PREP grad, who is also wrapping a real estate master’s at New York University early next year.
“If you’re thinking about what you’re doing this week, you’re kind of already behind,” Perticone said. “It’s what’s next month, what’s next quarter, and we have to make sure we’re keeping our checklist moving forward.”
