Dan McGowan

It’s been a little more than a year since Dan McGowan moved from Denver to Miami to be JLL’s broker lead in South Florida, and, while he misses the mountain lifestyle, McGowan said it’s been an exciting year.

“Other than going from the mountains to the water, it’s been great,” McGowan said. “South Florida, like Miami and West Palm Beach, is a really vibrant community. It’s very much an international gateway city now, and the desire, both from the government and corporations, to work together to help grow the region and take on challenges head-on is refreshing and really exciting.”

In 2025, JLL’s brokerage team in South Florida completed approximately 1,000 transactions both locally and globally, with McGowan himself finalizing 72 real estate deals across 23 states and six countries, the firm said.

McGowan leads brokerage operations for nearly every asset class in South Florida, including office, retail, industrial, medical, you name it. In addition, McGowan is a member of JLL’s Americas brokerage leadership council, where he helps shape strategic direction for the firm’s operations across the globe.

McGowan said he’s been seeing a “true flight to quality” for office leasing in South Florida, mostly among the professional services, legal, consulting, accounting, finance and technology industries. But it’s a “different type” of flight to quality, he said.

“In the past, you see flights to quality during down periods of the economy, where companies were taking advantage of lower prices to upgrade their space,” McGowan said. “But, after COVID, there were new ways of thinking about remote work and how you handle your employees and their space needs. It’s a much more sustainable and unique approach to flight to quality, and that’s what we’re seeing here in South Florida.”

As for the upcoming year, McGowan said he has three goals for JLL: to provide exceptional client service, to grow the team, and to “be the front leaders” in technology.