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Elizabeth Ward is a commercial broker with REACH | Real Estate Solutions. Elizabeth is entrepreneur-focused and believes in transparent communication.

With over 25 years of investment experience, Elizabeth Ward is a seasoned professional. Her success as an owner and investor in several multifamily projects and a multi-use historical development in New Orleans is a testament to her expertise. She is entrepreneur-focused and aims to inspire confidence in others by teaching them how to diversify their portfolios to include commercial investment sales. Prior to her recruitment by REACH Real Estate Solutions, she worked at NAI and Entergy Corporation, a Fortune 500 company.

Elizabeth graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with a B.S. in Business Administration and continued graduate studies, earning an MBA from the University of Phoenix. Elizabeth believes in life-long learning and has served as President of her New Orleans Commercial Women in Real Estate (CREW) chapter.

Melissa S. Warren, CCIM is a Senior Commercial Real Estate Advisor and the New Orleans metropolitan market leader for Stirling. She has provided clients with commercial real estate advisory services since 2001. As a Senior Advisor with Stirling in New Orleans, LA, Ms. Warren focuses on industrial, office, and retail sales, leasing, and tenant and landlord representation.

On behalf of clients, Melissa has been responsible for conducting investment, market, and financial analysis and negotiating purchase and lease contracts. She coordinates transaction due diligence, site selection services, and user decision analysis, and assists clients with planning and zoning matters. Additionally, Melissa has represented medical clients with medical retail and office site selection services. Before joining Stirling, she was the leasing agent for East Jefferson General Hospital in Metairie, LA. She has represented financial institutions in the disposition of distressed commercial assets and excess branch disposition. Over the years, she served numerous industrial and bioscience clients providing them with the services of site selection, market analysis, shipyard disposition, industrial park and river terminal land acquisition, ground-up development, and asset disposition.

Ms. Warren's organizational service includes founding Board Member and President of NAIOP Gulf Coast Chapter, Board Member of NAIOP Corporate Board of Directors (the Commercial Real Estate Development Organization), past Board Member and President Ex-Officio of the NOMAR-CID (New Orleans Metropolitan Association of Realtors - Commercial Investment Division); and past Board Member of LACDB (the Louisiana Commercial Database). Commercial Real Estate professional affiliations include CCIM (Certified Commercial Investment Member), ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers), NOMAR-CID, and New Orleans CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women). Melissa serves on the Board of the Louisiana SPCA, and volunteers with New Orleans City Park, and Habitat for Humanity.

Before joining Stirling, Ms. Warren was a senior real estate advisor for Grubb & Ellis/ Sawyer Commercial in Gulfport, MS. In 2006, she was designated a (CCIM) upon successfully passing the comprehensive final exam and passing the CCIM Institute's panel judgment for the portfolio of qualifying industry experience.

After Hurricane Katrina, the mayor of Gulfport, MS selected Ms. Warren to co-chair the committee to rebuild Gulfport Harbor's Jones Park where she helped spearhead fundraising, architectural charrettes, and development designs for the rebuilding of the park.

Ms. Warren graduated from Mississippi State University in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She holds Louisiana and Mississippi real estate licenses.