Brad Sondock is President and founder of The Retail Properties Group. He started the company after many years of retail real estate experience in the Houston market. Sondock has personally negotiated to completion over 700 retail lease transactions, and leased almost 5 million square feet of retail space. His real estate experience began in 1985 with the retail brokerage division of Henry S. Miller/Grubb & Ellis. In 1992 Sondock established and managed the Houston brokerage division for the Weitzman Group, and served as Senior Vice President of the company. The Weitzman Group is the largest retail brokerage and Development Company in Dallas, Texas.

Sondock has had extensive experience with both retail Tenant and Landlord brokerage representation. Projects have included large (such as The Fountains on the Lake in Stafford, Texas – one of the ten largest strip centers ever built in the Houston market with eleven major anchor Tenants and 700,000 square feet of total leasable area), and small. Tenants he has represented have included Jason’s Deli, Leslie Pool Supply, Ritz Camera, Bike Barn, Guitar Center, Golf Smith, Today’s Vision, Charming Charlie, Casual Male, Barbeques Galore and Wallpaper’s To Go, to name a few.

Sondock has also had extensive experience in retail shopping center development. Sondock has eight established retail shopping centers. At present, most of the existing centers are fully leased. He purchased, designed, built, leased and managed these projects through the company’s development arm.