Aaron Ulinder
Office Leasing, Investment Sales
Aaron Ulinder is Managing Director and Executive Vice President of Lennard Commercial's Vancouver office, which he co-founded with Allon Shapiro as the firm's first expansion outside Ontario. Lennard is the Greater Toronto Area's third largest commercial brokerage and one of Canada's fastest growing. Aaron is an exclusive occupier representative for office leasing and investment sales, based in British Columbia and leading national mandates in collaboration with brokers across Canada.
Over a career spanning nearly three decades, Aaron has been involved in more than 3,000 leasing transactions. Before co-founding Lennard Vancouver, he spent more than 25 years at CBRE. His work starts with strategy. Once engaged, Aaron operates much like an in-house real estate advisor, whether the assignment is a single location, a regional footprint or a national portfolio. That strategy drives the execution: portfolio optimization, relocations, lease extensions, expansions, contractions and surplus space dispositions, along with notable investment acquisitions and sales of freestanding buildings and strata units for pension funds, corporations and not-for-profit societies.
Across more than 3,000 transactions, Aaron has represented occupiers in virtually every sector of the office market, ranging from law, accounting and wealth management firms to technology, mining and resources, government, healthcare, post-secondary education, pension funds, defence and not-for-profit organizations. Requirements have ranged from partial floors to full floors and up to 13 contiguous floors, as well as national portfolio mandates. Highlights include a 212,000 sq ft headquarters for a global engineering firm, the consolidation of seven locations into one 90,000 sq ft facility for a private equity-owned post-secondary group, and a 65,000 sq ft office and light industrial facility for a naval defence technology company. Several clients have trusted him with their real estate for more than two decades.
His approach is analytical and direct. Aaron stays personally involved in every assignment, from the first market survey to the final lease document, so senior experience is applied where it matters most.
