Steve Bordley, Principal of Maris Advisors

Steve Bordley

Principal & Designated Broker, Maris Advisors
Tenant-focused. Zero conflicts. More than three decades of commercial real estate.
Why Tenant-Only

The correction the industry needed

Steve spent more than two decades inside the industry's largest full-service brokerages — starting at Cushman & Wakefield, later a Senior Vice President at CBRE — representing tenants at firms whose largest revenue streams came from the landlords across the table. He watched that structural conflict shape outcomes in ways most tenants never see.

Maris Advisors was founded on a simple correction: represent tenants only, ever. No landlord listings, no leasing assignments, no divided loyalty.

When Maris Advisors negotiates, there is exactly one client in the room.
A Career-Long Pattern

Building the tools before the industry had them

The analytical tools on this site aren't a novelty — they're the latest chapter in a habit that has defined Steve's career.

Track Record

Credentials that predate the firm

Nearly half a billion
dollars in career transaction value
Broker of the Year
five consecutive years
Top GSA, city & state
leasing broker throughout tenure
150,000 – 1.2M SF
institutional assignment range
Over his career, Steve has represented
FedEx·Aetna·AT&T·Humana·Citibank·BNY Mellon·Marsh & McLennan·MassMutual·Merrill Lynch·Travelers/The St. Paul·America West Airlines·Cerner·Sonora Quest Laboratories·GSA·State of Arizona·Dames & Moore (URS - AECOM)
Beyond Brokerage

Innovation and community

Steve is also the inventor of the TrekDesk Treadmill Desk, a national workplace-health innovation featured on CNN, NBC, and NPR, named an office innovation by Forbes and a Top Product of the Year by Scientific American, with research partnerships spanning ASU, UCLA, LSU, and the American College of Sports Medicine. A proven entrepreneur, he built and scaled two internet-based companies to seven-figure exits, personally engineering both the back-end operations and their web presences.

Closer to home, he founded the Phoenix Lacrosse Club and has served with Valley Big Brothers — the same commitment behind Maris Advisors' pledge to donate a minimum of 30% of net fees to the charity of each client's choice.

Work directly with the principal

No hand-offs, no junior teams — every Maris Advisors engagement is led by Steve personally.

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