Stephen Webster

About Stephen Webster

Highly experienced real estate professional with strong commitment to integrity and honesty, self starter, with a proven history of consistently working, individually or in teams, in achieving corporate/company objectives, retaining and managing external professional teams, and working/communicating with field operations all the way through the C-Suite. Skilled in the identification, H&B use and evaluation of assets over a wide geographical area, marketing, extremely well versed in the negotiation of terms, contracts (dispositions, acquisitions and leases), zoning, entitlements, title, survey, environmental reviews, documents, all the way through closings. Intuitive and analytical skills supported with use of various/current software, and deep connections with real estate industry members across North America. BBA focused in Real Estate and Finance from The University of Texas-Austin, and long term involvement with various industry, athletic and other professional and community memberships.

Experience

1. Director, Real Estate

   Service Corporation International

   Sep 1985 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Directing all aspects and activities of the extensive real estate portfolio in the Eastern half of North America for a NYSE firm (currently comprised of over 1,800 operating locations in 43 states and eight Canadian Provinces). Activities include conception, negotiation, documentation and management of national accounts and strategic alliance partnerships, budgeting, participating member of various shared responsibility teams relating to special high profile projects, identification and production of real property dispositions for contribution to company consolidated earnings and free cash flow, integrally involved in design of proprietary real estate database and reporting (in use for over 15 years), provide ongoing analysis, negotiation, documentation, closing and reporting of acquisition, disposition, condemnation and lease transactions, lead acquisition team in consultant selection, site selection, due diligence, entitlements, closing, etc.

Education

• University of Texas-Austin

  BBA, Real Estate and Finance

  1979 — 1983

Skills

• Lease Negotiations
• Budgeting
• Real Estate
• Reo
• Valuation
• Real Estate Development
• Brokerage
• Land Acquisition
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Real Estate Transactions
• Development
• Budgets
• Finance
• Disposition
• Dispositions
• Negotiation
• Sales
• Leases
• Asset Management
• Sellers
• Due Diligence
• Management
• Strategic Planning
• Tenant
• Analysis
• Corporate Real Estate
• Lease Administration
• Acquisitions
• Entitlements
• Commercial Real Estate
• Location Intelligence
• Mergers
• Contract Negotiation