Bringing 32 years of experience in commercial real estate, Marilynne joined Colliers in 2018 to provide financial analysis to the company’s leasing and investment sales teams for all types of assets, including the following types of financial analysis:

• lease renewal and relocation comparisons
• mid-term lease renegotiations (“blend and extend”)
• lease buyouts
• sublease disposition/recovery
• build-to-suit vs. design-build
• lease vs. buy
• own vs. sale/leaseback
• landlord net effective rate
• discounted cash flows

Prior to joining Colliers, she specialized in advising companies regarding their financial analysis for commercial real estate requirements or investments for 17 years. Marilynne also has a background in commercial mortgage underwriting/loan originations and commercial real estate appraisal.

Doug joined the Colliers Houston office in January 2023. Doug has over 25 years of experience in marketing and graphic design, including print, video, web design and app development. He has mastery of the adobe creative cloud software programs and is especially skilled in concept planning and implementation. He is adept at innovating with the latest technological mediums that provide a superb client experience, including workflow optimization, augmented reality and virtual reality. 

Before joining Colliers, Doug served as Senior Vice President, Creative Director for PMRG/Madison Marquette; he worked for Grubb & Ellis/Newmark Grubb Knight Frank for eight years, where he was the Director of Marketing for the Houston office while also serving on the corporate marketing team. During his tenure with Grubb & Ellis, he was honored to win the Grubb & Ellis employee of the year on two occasions. He also worked for Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), where he was responsible for managing JLL’s brand identity in all marketing, communications and promotional contexts. At JLL, he was honored with the CMR First and Best Practice Award for his “Interactive Placemat” design. Before his move to the commercial real estate industry, Mr. Berry spent seven years working for Texas Fish & Game Magazine. Mr. Berry received the Texas Outdoor Writers Association’s top issue multiple times.

Patsy joined Colliers in 2023 as the Research Director and has more than 40 years of communications, research and statistical analysis experience in the commercial real estate industry. She produces annual and quarterly market-area reports and project-specific custom reports for client presentations while effectively utilizing commercial real estate tools and databases.

Patsy has a deep understanding of how to capture real estate data, analyze market trends and provide meaningful data-driven insights to assist clients in finding solutions to meet their real estate needs.

Previous Roles

• Senior Insight Analyst/Research Manager for Avison Young’s Houston office from 2018-2022. Responsible for leading market research by tracking and analyzing key economic and market trends. Maintained office and industrial building data and comps in a proprietary in-house database.
• Senior Market Analyst for Commercial Gateway, the commercial division of the Houston Association of Realtors, and for CDS Market Research. 
• Served as Communications/Research Director for The Horne Company and Grubb & Ellis. 
• Edited a local monthly magazine, a weekly newspaper and a special section for the Houston Post.