Commercial real estate veteran Curtis Chickerneo has launched Anchor Commercial Advisors, a Birmingham-based commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firm designed to provide clients with a consistent point of contact for real estate assignments across the United States.
Chickerneo founded Anchor Commercial Advisors in May 2026 after approximately 14 years with Cushman & Wakefield, where he began his career as a research intern in the firm’s Phoenix office before transitioning into brokerage.
Over the course of his career, Chickerneo has completed approximately 3.26 million square feet of commercial real estate transactions representing more than $546 million in transaction value, with assignments spanning nearly every U.S. state as well as select international transactions.
During his tenure at Cushman & Wakefield, Chickerneo worked alongside some of the firm’s most senior brokerage professionals and was recognized as one of the company’s top five producing brokers among professionals with five or fewer years in the business.
After nearly 15 years within a global commercial real estate organization, Chickerneo says the decision to launch Anchor grew from a desire to combine national capabilities with a more entrepreneurial, responsive, and relationship-driven approach.
“Over the course of my career, I accumulated the relationships, market knowledge, and transaction experience to build something of my own,” Chickerneo says. “I wanted to create a company that could provide clients with national reach and sophisticated real estate advisory services while remaining nimble, responsive, and personally accountable.”
A central component of Anchor’s strategy is a brokerage model designed to reduce the handoffs that often occur when companies complete transactions across multiple markets.
Rather than introducing a client to a different brokerage team every time an assignment moves into another city or state, Anchor remains the client’s primary advisor and point of contact throughout the process.
“Our clients don’t stop needing us when they cross a state line,” Chickerneo says. “We remain their primary point of contact regardless of where the transaction is located. They know who to call, they know where their deal stands, and we can often move much faster because there isn’t a constant transition from one team to another.”
