Kristen Baker serves as a Director at Newmark, where she specializes in representing landlords in the marketing and leasing of office buildings in Houston, Texas. Baker has experience leasing boutique and large buildings (from 50,000 to 900,000 square feet) for entrepreneurial and institutional ownership groups during multiple market cycles. With experience elevating building positioning for Class A and B buildings, Baker has represented office assets in most major Houston submarkets and throughout Chicago.
Baker joined Newmark in 2023 after serving as an office leasing agent for over a decade at Transwestern, where she partnered with and was mentored by national and local top producers and company leaders.
Partial List of Houston Leasing Experience
- 3250 Briarpark Drive
- 1250 West Sam Houston Parkway South
- 609 Main/708 Main/2700 Post Oak/1725 Hughes Landing (via WeWork)
- One City Centre
- 950 and 952 Echo Lane
- 2901 Wilcrest Drive
- 11757 Katy Freeway (Kirkwood Tower)
- 10200 Grogan’s Mill Road
- 1610 Woodstead Court
- Two Westlake
Chicago CBD High-Rise Office Experience
- 200 West Madison
- 2 North La Salle
- 123 Wacker
- 525 West Van Buren
Client List
- State Farm
- Rialto
- Principal Financial
- Shorenstein
- Northwood Investors
- Bentall Kennedy
- BGK Properties
- Harbor Group
- Triple Net Properties
- Behringer Harvard
- Equastone
- Transwestern Investment Group
- WeWork
- Columbus Properties
- Winthrop Realty Trust
Education
Baker received a bachelor’s degree in 2007 from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She is a licensed real estate agent in the state of Texas.