Matt Curtin brings over 20 years for retail real estate experience to his role as an Executive Managing Director with Newmark. He specializes in both landlord and tenant representation.
Curtin has spent 18 of his 20 years in the industry as a broker in Boston, focused on urban/high street and lifestyle center/mall leasing. Curtin also spent 2 years as a Senior Real Estate Manager at Apple in Cupertino, CA, where he helped lead the retail real estate team in the U.S. and Australia. While at Apple, Curtin completed over 30 transactions, including mall, lifestyle center and high street locations in both the U.S. and Australia, most notably Apple’s Upper East Side location on Madison Avenue.
Since returning to brokerage in Boston in 2015, Curtin has been involved in over 50 leases on Newbury Street alone. Some notable transactions include ALO Yoga, Panerai, IWC, Van Cleef & Arpels, Omega, Anthropologie, Lululemon, Jenni Kayne, Veronica Beard, Glossier, Mejuri, Norrona, New Balance, Rails, Frame, Buck Mason, and many more.
Curtin and his team have also contributed to the transformation of the South Boston Seaport with such leases as Serafina, Moxie’s, Davio’s Italian Steakhouse, Limani, Lucid Motors, Todd Snyder, Menya Jiro, Hook & Line, and many others.
Curtin has been and continues to be responsible for multi-store roll outs in New England for tenants such as Sweetgreen (25+ locations), Nike, Skin Laundry, Bond Vet, Vuori, Allbirds and several more. Curtin is currently representing Wayfair for both their 150,000sf flagship stores, as well as their 10-15,000sf specialty branded stores (AllModern and Joss & Main) throughout the United States.
Curtin works closely with his companies Capital Markets teams as it relates to retail specific and mixed-use projects with retail components. In 2017, Curtin was involved in a $108M sale of a retail asset in Harvard Square to Asana Partners, and subsequently leased 90% of the asset for the buyer.
Professional Affiliations
- Licensed real estate salesperson in Massachusetts
- Back Bay Association Board Member
- ICSC
Education
- Colgate University – BA, Class of 2002