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Young real estate whiz launches multifamily development firm

A 30-year-old former CBRE multifamily investment sales broker has decided to head out on his own and begin developing apartment communities.

By Louis Llovio
| 5:00 a.m. October 5, 2023
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Matthew Sokolowski is taking a stab at development, leaving a commercial real estate brokerage to launch his own multifamily development firm, SokoCRE.

Tampa Bay-Lakeland

Until about a month ago, Matthew Sokolowski was an investment sales broker working at CBRE in Tampa.

He was on the capital markets team and doing well. The future was bright.

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Louis Llovio

Louis Llovio is the deputy managing editor at the Business Observer. Before going to work at the Observer, the longtime business writer worked at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Maryland Daily Record and for the Baltimore Sun Media Group. He lives in Tampa.