James Hawkins is the Principal Broker of Hawkins Commercial Realty, a leading Miami area commercial real estate firm. James has had a long and diverse career spanning financial services at Morgan Stanley and others as well as various entrepreneurial ventures that allowed an accumulation of experience invaluable to him as a commercial broker. He was solely responsible for developing locations for a leading specialty retail franchise of which he was a principal, with operations in two states. In his years of financial services, in the process of researching investment opportunities, he developed significant familiarity with a wide variety of industries, as well as relevant expertise in financial analysis and economics. He has negotiated on dozens of properties and businesses, both as a buyer and a seller, closing on more than a dozen. He has developed commercial property, and has purchased and sold multiple businesses.