Daniel Matz.
Daniel Matz
Senior managing director at Newmark Miami
In 2021, Daniel Matz joined Newmark’s Miami office, where he began coordinating with Newmark’s unified Florida finance teams in Orlando and Tampa to provide land-loan originations, construction financing, bridge loans, and debt and equity across the capital stack.
Matz said that in the last four years Miami has evolved rapidly, as submarkets within the city — namely Brickell, Wynwood and Miami Worldcenter — now compete with larger markets like Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach for top-dollar investment capital.
“It’s transformed a lot, and it was already changing a lot in 2021, but it’s really a diversified economy — finance, tech, real companies are here — so it’s a much more dynamic city than it was historically,” said Matz. “There’s so many interesting growth markets in South Florida.”
Matz is particularly excited about the submarket in Brickell, which he said will benefit from Ken Griffin’s Citadel building a 54-story tower that will include office space, a 212-room hotel and fine restaurants, as well as 830 Brickell, a 55-story office tower that just opened and features Microsoft and law firm Kirkland & Ellis as tenants.
“The apartment and condo market in Brickell hasn’t fully felt the positive impact of those buildings being occupied by tenants,” he said. “It still feels like its early innings as people and companies are still moving here, so it’s a very exciting time to be in South Florida.”
Matz carries a secret sauce into his brokerage business: more than a decade as a lender. In a previous life, he lived in New York City for 12 years, earning an MBA from New York University and working in institutional real estate lending, where he specialized in originations, underwriting and workouts, before he transitioned into advisory.
“That 10 years of institutional lending experience gave me a really solid backbone to originate complex deals all throughout the capital stack,” he said. “I really like working with people who are building and buying, and doing it in an interesting, creative way.”
