LAWSON MARTIN
Managing Principal; Market Leader
Cresa
Lawson Martin joined Travers Realty in late 1985 following six years of engagement with a landlord broker in Century City where he worked on the listing team for the Century Plaza Towers amongst other assignments. During the next 40 years he became an expert in large local tenant representation assignments focusing on advocating only on behalf of tenants and occupiers throughout Southern California. That success led to doing national and regional account work focusing on portfolio optimization for major companies such as TCW, SunAmerica, KB Home, Colony Capital, Shell Oil, Ryland Homes, Meritage Homes, Warner Bros. and Lionsgate Entertainment.
Following decades of working closely with Jim Travers, Martin was eventually given certain management responsibilities which led to being names CEO in 2010. In 2019 Lawson and his partner Dennis Smith successfully completed the transfer of ownership and control of Travers Cresa which then became Cresa.
