Jon Squires

Jonathan Squires is a Managing Director in Capital Markets at Cushman & Wakefield, where he advises clients across all five boroughs of New York City. Jonathan has been active in the New York City real estate market since 2001. He began his career acquiring and leasing commercial properties for the family office of Bradford N. Swett (now BNS Real Estate). He later founded Squires & Company, Inc., where he worked as an asset manager, broker, and advisor to family offices, institutional investors, and the Supreme Court of New York State. Over the past 25 years, Jonathan has been involved in thousands of transactions across the city, with a reputation for approaching real estate from multiple angles—operator, fiduciary, strategist. He has been quoted in The New York Times, Financial Times, Commercial Observer, The Real Deal, Real Estate Weekly, and The New York Post. Raised in Boulder, Colorado, Jonathan now lives in a Harlem brownstone and spends weekends at a farmhouse in Hudson, NY with his wife, daughter, and two French bulldogs. Occasionally, he even finds time to play golf. Recent Awards and Recognitions Instrumental in 2024 REBNY’s Ingenious Deal of the Year—an effort that safeguarded the Madison Boys & Girls Club from bankruptcy. Honored with a 2025 CoStar Impact Award - enabling the long-term redevelopment of a Botanical Gardens parcel into affordable senior housing through a 99-year ground lease. Select Clients and Customers Served: Corporate • Verizon • Lightstone • Rudin • Vanbarton Group • Madison International Realty • Madison Marquette • Taconic Partners • Chestnut Holdings • Glacier Equities • Savanna • Wafra Capital Partners • Winter Properties • Angelo Gordon • Turnbridge Equities • Jamestown • BLDG Management • Brookfield Asset Management • Harbor Group International • Urban Standard Capital • MADD Equities • Stericycle Retail / Consumer / Logistics / Auto • U-Haul • 7-Eleven • Carvana • Tesla • Harley-Davidson • Shell • Sunoco • Stop & Shop • ShopRite • Campbell’s Soups & Campell’s Snacks Finance & Investment • JPMorgan Chase & Co. • Goldman Sachs • BlackRock • Blackstone • Citizens Bank • New York Community Bank • Rialto Capital • Mavrick Real Estate Partners Healthcare / Life Sciences • NewYork-Presbyterian • Northwell Health • Montefiore • Easterseals Schools & Education • NYU • Fordham University • Columbia University • Success Academy • KIPP NYC • Zeta Charter Schools • ColumbiaDoctors Non-Profits & Social Services • Commonpoint Queens • Madison Square Boys & Girls Club • New Destiny Housing • WIN • ASPCA • The Bridge Cultural & Religious Institutions • New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) • The Metropolitan Opera • JW.org • Archdiocese of New York • Episcopal Diocese of New York

• Specialties
  Investment Sales Broker
• Markets
  Long Island (New York), New York City, Hartford, Northern New Jersey, Westchester/So Connecticut
• Property Types
  Industrial, Land, Office, Retail, SportsAndEntertainment, Specialty, Multifamily, Healthcare
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• Education
  University of Chicago