About

Senior Land Advisor and Managing Broker, Nancy Surak, offers clients both transactional expertise and a deep understanding of land developed over her 25-year career in the commercial real estate industry. Nancy specializes in commercial development and master-planned community land advising and land sales throughout the Tampa Bay region.

The Florida Gulfcoast Association of Commercial REALTORS® awarded Nancy Tampa Bay's Overall Commercial Real Estate Deal of the Year in 2020, 2018 and 2014, and recognized her with the Overall Land Deal of the Year Award six times. She received the 2016 Sales Transaction Excellence Award from CREW Tampa Bay, an association of professional women in commercial real estate. In addition, she was honored to be among the Gulf Coast Business Review’s “40 Under 40,” and was named the “Top Woman in Florida Commercial Real Estate” by the Florida Real Estate Journal.

In 2021 she was recognized with the Best Real Estate Deals Community Impact Award by the Tampa Bay Business Journal and named a Woman to Watch in Commercial Real Estate by GlobeSt.com. 

Nancy is a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) and holds the REALTORS® Land Institute's Accredited Land Consultant designation (ALC). She is a member of Urban Land Institute (ULI) and a former member of ULI Florida’s Urban Development/Mixed Use Product Council.

She currently serves as an advisor for Tampa Bay's ULI Women's Leadership Initiative and is former president of Tampa's Real Estate Investment Council. In the past, she served on the board of directors of the Florida Gulf Coast Commercial Association of REALTORS®, Tampa Bay's Urban Land Institute Management Council, Leadership Tampa Bay, and the Pasco County Economic Development Council.

Nancy earned a bachelor’s degree in international trade and finance at Louisiana State University and a master’s in mass communication at the University of Florida. She taught real estate management as an adjunct professor at The University of Tampa and is a frequent speaker at industry events, including the National Association of REALTORS® Conference, ULI Florida Summit and Tampa Bay Trends Conferences, Greater Tampa Association of REALTORS®, the annual NAIOP Tampa Bay Broker Update, Closers & Connections, and CREW Meetings. She’s also the creator and host of She’s Wild, the Podcast for Women in Land and Development. 

Nancy lives in Tampa and is the mom of two adult children, Luke and Emily and the wife of Brian Surak.