David Baker

About David Baker

David has served as the senior leasing agent for several large office projects and/or…

Experience

1. Executive Managing Director

   Newmark

   Jan 2023 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   David Baker currently serves as an Executive Managing Director in Newmark’s Houston, Texas, office. Baker is one of the most accomplished office agency leasing producers nationwide. In addition to being recognized as one of the national and local top producers every year for over 15 years and a top agency producer citywide, Baker has also recruited and trained many of Houston’s top-performing leasing agents. His expertise is in curating, training and leading teams to outperform the market in absorption and rental rates by differentiating and branding office assets. Baker has performed at a high level during multiple market cycles—having represented over 50 million square feet of leasing in over 200 buildings in every major Houston submarket, including completing over 65 headquarters leases. Baker specializes in creating an office environment and brand that gives tenants and employees a compelling reason to go to the office. Baker’s most notable recent accomplishment is secured three of the five largest deals citywide during the pandemic in 2020—Cadence Bank square feet), Yang Ming Marine Transport Corporation square feet) and Ryan square feet)—all of which were new tenant leases and new absorption. Teams led by Baker accounted for over 15% of the entire new leasing completed citywide in 2020 in the 240 million-square-foot Houston office market and secured the largest new lease and corporate relocation of Apache Corporation.

Education

• Baylor University

  Bachelor's Degree