Commercial Real Estate Experience Across East Texas
Commercial real estate experience is more useful when it extends beyond the transaction. Ihrig Properties brings together brokerage, leasing, investment advisory, property management, site selection, development-related advisory, and hands-on asset operations across commercial and multifamily real estate.
Founded by Cole Ihrig, SIOR, the firm is built around a practical understanding of what owners, investors, businesses, landlords, and tenants need from real estate before, during, and after a transaction — across office, industrial, retail, flex, healthcare, land, multifamily, mixed-use, and investment properties throughout Tyler and the broader East Texas market.
Experience beyond the closing table
A broker can understand how to execute a transaction without necessarily understanding what happens to the property afterward. Ihrig Properties was built around both. Our work spans:
- Commercial property sales
- Investment acquisitions and dispositions
- Landlord representation
- Tenant representation
- Commercial leasing
- Property management
- Commercial and multifamily operations
- Site selection
- Land opportunities
- Development-related advisory
- Property pricing analysis
- Asset repositioning
That broader perspective matters because commercial real estate decisions are connected. The lease negotiated today affects future property operations. Property management affects NOI. NOI can affect investment pricing. Deferred maintenance can affect a future sale. A tenant's space decision can affect a business for years. A development site's limitations can determine whether an otherwise attractive project ever makes economic sense. We try to see those connections before they become problems.
Cole Ihrig, SIOR
Cole Ihrig is the founder and broker of Ihrig Properties. His commercial real estate experience spans brokerage, leasing, investment sales, property management, asset oversight, site selection, and development-related advisory across East Texas.
Cole holds the SIOR designation as an Office Specialist, a professional designation within the commercial real estate industry. His background also includes a bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Alabama with specializations in real estate and professional sales. That combination of financial education, commercial brokerage, and property operations shapes how Ihrig Properties approaches real estate decisions today.
The objective is not simply to complete a transaction. It is to understand what the transaction means for the client after it is complete.
Organizations in Cole's transaction history
Cole's completed commercial real estate work has included transactions involving organizations such as:
State Farm
Commercial real estate transaction experience involving one of the country's major insurance organizations.
Edward Jones
Commercial real estate transaction experience involving the national financial-services firm.
Wound Evolution
Commercial real estate transaction experience involving an East Texas healthcare organization.
Professional & Legal Firms
Transaction experience has also included local and national law firms and other professional-service businesses.
These examples represent selected publicly identifiable organizations associated with Cole's transaction history and are not intended to represent a complete list of clients or assignments. Many commercial real estate relationships and transactions remain private.
Different property types require different advice
Office
Brokerage, leasing, owner and tenant representation, investment considerations, and operations. Cole's SIOR designation is held in the Office Specialist category.
Learn more →Industrial & Flex
Warehouse configuration, loading, clear height, yard, power, truck access, office percentage, and future leasing potential for owners, investors, and businesses.
Learn more →Retail
Traffic, visibility, access, parking, signage, tenant mix, and lease structure — evaluated for both the tenant's operation and the owner's long-term strategy.
Learn more →Multifamily
Significant operational experience: occupancy, turnover, maintenance, reporting, and investment performance across hundreds of units.
Learn more →Commercial Land
Location, access, frontage, utilities, parcel configuration, surrounding development, and buyer profile — brokerage, site selection, and development-related advisory.
Learn more →Healthcare & Professional
Specialized requirements involving location, parking, accessibility, layout, patient or client access, and buildout — including healthcare and law-firm transactions.
Learn more →Hundreds of units of operations experience
Property management is one of the clearest differences between Ihrig Properties and a brokerage practice focused only on transactions. The firm's experience includes operational oversight across hundreds of commercial and multifamily units — financial reporting, tenant relations, lease administration, CAM reconciliations, rent collection, maintenance oversight, vendor management, capital projects, owner reporting, property repositioning, and leasing coordination.
That experience influences brokerage advice. A lease clause is easier to understand when you have administered leases. Operating expenses are easier to evaluate when you have managed budgets. Deferred maintenance is harder to ignore when you have dealt with the consequences. And an investment opportunity looks different when you understand what will actually be required to operate it.
Land → Development → Leasing → Operations → Repositioning → Investment → Sale
Commercial real estate does not begin or end with a sale. Ihrig Properties works across multiple stages of the property life cycle, which creates useful continuity.
Before acquisition
Site selection, property search, market analysis, and acquisition advisory.
During the transaction
Brokerage, negotiation, due-diligence coordination, and transaction support.
During ownership
Property management, leasing, financial reporting, tenant relations, and capital-project coordination.
During repositioning
Vacancy strategy, property improvements, operational changes, leasing, and market repositioning.
Before sale
Property pricing analysis, financial review, lease considerations, market positioning, and disposition strategy.
The client does not always need five different perspectives from five disconnected companies. Sometimes one real estate advisor who understands how those stages connect can make the decision clearer.
SIOR, education & industry recognition
Cole Ihrig holds the SIOR designation as an Office Specialist. The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors is a professional organization focused on commercial real estate; for clients, the designation is another indication that commercial brokerage is Cole's specific professional discipline rather than one category within a broad residential practice.
Cole earned his bachelor's degree in finance from the University of Alabama, with specialization in real estate and professional sales — a background that is particularly relevant in commercial real estate, where decisions frequently require understanding the relationship between property, income, expenses, financing, leases, investment risk, capital requirements, and future value.
Cole has also received industry recognition including CREXI Platinum Broker recognition in 2022. Industry awards are not the reason to select a broker, but they can provide additional outside evidence of activity and participation within the commercial real estate market. The work still has to speak for itself.
Representative experience should be specific — and accurate
Commercial real estate websites have a habit of publishing enormous transaction totals without telling visitors what those numbers actually represent. We prefer a simpler approach.
When a transaction, client relationship, property, square footage, sale price, or role can be appropriately disclosed, we can identify it. When information is confidential, we do not manufacture specificity for marketing purposes. Over time, this page will continue growing with properly documented representative transactions — property, city, property type, transaction type, representation role, size, year, and publicly disclosable consideration when appropriate. The result should be a useful record of experience rather than a collection of marketing claims.
Experience shouldn't only look backward
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Frequently asked questions about Ihrig Properties
Who is Cole Ihrig?
Cole Ihrig, SIOR, is the founder and broker of Ihrig Properties, a commercial real estate firm based in Tyler, Texas. His experience includes brokerage, leasing, investment sales, property management, landlord representation, tenant representation, site selection, asset operations, and development-related advisory.
What is Cole Ihrig's SIOR specialty?
Cole holds the SIOR designation as an Office Specialist.
What commercial real estate property types does Ihrig Properties work with?
Experience includes office, industrial, flex, retail, healthcare, land, multifamily, mixed-use, and other investment real estate.
Does Ihrig Properties only handle brokerage transactions?
No. Ihrig Properties also provides commercial and multifamily property management, investment advisory, commercial leasing, site selection, property analysis, and development-related advisory.
Does Ihrig Properties have property-management experience?
Yes. Ihrig Properties brings operational experience across hundreds of commercial and multifamily units.
Has Cole worked with national companies?
Cole's publicly identified transaction experience includes organizations such as State Farm and Edward Jones, in addition to regional companies, healthcare organizations, and local and national professional firms.
Does Ihrig Properties represent both landlords and tenants?
Yes. The firm's commercial brokerage experience includes both landlord and tenant representation.
Does Ihrig Properties work with investors?
Yes. Investment work includes acquisitions, dispositions, multifamily, mixed-use, value-add commercial property, and property operations.
Where is Ihrig Properties located?
Ihrig Properties is based at 724 W. Elm Street in Tyler, Texas.
What geographic area does Ihrig Properties serve?
The firm focuses primarily on Tyler and the broader East Texas commercial real estate market.
Bring us the next real estate decision
You do not need to know which service you need before calling. Maybe you have a property. Maybe you need one. Maybe you are considering selling, or a lease is expiring, or a piece of land deserves another look. Start with the decision — we'll help determine where the real estate goes from there.