Allison Buck.
Allison Buck, 29
Assistant director at Savills
The headlines might suggest a trend in large tech firms shedding office space, but one look at Allison Buck’s recent deals argues otherwise.
Buck, who joined Savills from JLL along with Jim Wenk and Kirill Azovtsev in January 2021, closed the biggest deal of her career in August when her team represented software company Monday.com in its 110,000-square-foot sublease with BuzzFeed at 225 Park Avenue South.
The deal was in the works for several years, and Monday.com’s space requirement kept changing as it kept growing. It was originally looking for only 30,000 to 40,000 square feet in Manhattan, Buck said.
“Ultimately, they wanted to invest in New York and understood the need to have a really nice space,” Buck said. “There is still some tech resilience. There are still people that want to be in New York and understand that it’s still the center of it all.”
Buck has focused on tech tenants and has started to expand outside New York to help with her clients’ portfolios. She recently secured 36,000 square feet for VTS at 20 North Sangamon Street in Chicago and 25,000 square feet for software provider Sovos at the Star Metals Offices in Atlanta.
Buck grew up in the Orlando area and graduated from George Washington University in 2015. She moved to New York City after college and had stints as a brand manager for Saks Fifth Avenue and a year in the executive development program at Bloomingdale’s.
Real estate was in her bones — her father works as a property manager and would take her on apartment tours when she was young — and she eventually landed a job with Wenck’s team at JLL in 2017.
Aside from her full-time job at Savills, the Chelsea resident is currently studying for a graduate degree from New York University’s Schack Institute for Real Estate and volunteers with New Alternatives for Children, which helps medically fragile children in the city. —N.R.
