Omaha Economic Index®

Melissa has over 19 years of commercial real estate market research experience. She is responsible for the oversight of the market research function for Colliers International | Omaha. Melissa prides herself in providing information and analysis that is meaningful and powerful to the decision making of commercial real estate brokers and clients of Colliers International | Omaha. 

Her responsibilities include the production and authoring of quarterly statistical market publications, tracking and reporting commercial sales and leases in the market, mapping, and providing demographic, economic, traffic count and sales lead data.

Melissa assists clients with multi-market site selection projects. She designed, built and maintains a proprietary economic index across all U.S. metropolitan areas and for the local market.

She is proficient in implementing process improvement strategies for commercial real estate both internally and for clients.

Ed is a highly seasoned and successful professional with over 22 years of commercial real estate experience. He joined Colliers in Omaha in early 2001 as an Associate in the Advisory Services Group. He was promoted to Senior Associate in 2002, to Vice President in 2005, to Senior Vice President in 2008 and to Executive Vice President in 2016. Ed’s primary focus includes property sales, office leasing and tenant representation. Ed has an outstanding track record of delivering top-notch results and specializes in larger, more complex transactions. In 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021 he earned the firm’s “Broker of the Year” award and was named a Colliers International 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, and 2021 Everest Award recipient, recognizing the top 10 percent of producers nationally each year. During his career Ed has personally completed transactions totaling over $1.4 billion.

Mike joined Colliers International in 2015 with a strong ability to build relationships through his high level of initiative and extremely strong work ethic. After successfully commanding his position as Vice President, Director of Brokerage, Mike was promoted to President of Colliers | Omaha in 2019. In his role as president, Potthoff directs the operational excellence of the entire firm while concentrating on the development of new business as well as maintaining strong client relationships. Most importantly, Potthoff focuses on gaining market share and providing expert commercial real estate insight.