Our Team
Michelle Rich Goode, founder of Rich Commercial Realty, has more than 26 years of experience in commercial real estate and has represented a prestigious list of clients. She established Rich Commercial Realty in 1989 as one of the first tenant representative firms in the Triangle. She has a B.A. degree from Meredith College and an M.L.S. from East Carolina University.
Board Positions:
Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce – Past Board member at Large
Triangle Commercial Association of Realtors, Past Board member, Treasurer
Triangle Area Office Building Association – Past President
Triangle Commercial Real Estate Women (TCREW), Past President
Meredith College Board of Trustees, Past Chair, Past Board member
National Association Women Business Owners, Greater Raleigh Chapter, Board Member
Honors and Awards:
2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002 CoStar’s PowerBroker Award
2007 Greater Raleigh YWCA Academy of Women, Entrepreneur category
2006 Woman Extraordinaire by Business Leader Magazine
2001 Triangle CREW’s Woman of the Year
2000 Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce Pinnacle Business Award
Harold Rich is a commercial real estate broker employed by Rich Commercial Realty since 1997. He has extensive experience in assisting office and industrial clients with build-to-suit needs for distribution, flex space and office space requirements. Harold has served as a board member for the Triangle Area Office Brokers Association and received The Triangle Business Journal’s 2001 Real Estate Deal of the Year award for Top Industrial Lease and a SPACE award in 2004 and 2005 for Top Warehouse Lease. He has a B.A. degree from Elon College.
Tawnie Gainer joined Rich Commercial Realty as a commercial real estate broker and office manager in 2006. Currently she is the Director of Marketing/Business Manager and has over 14 years experience in the Triangle area in various sales and management positions. She attended North Carolina State University, majoring in Public Relations, is past member of the Triangle Area Office Building Association, is the past Vice President of Education for High Noon Toastmasters and also a member of TCREW. In her spare time she volunteers at Meals on Wheels and other charitable organizations.
Bo Hargrove joined Rich Commercial Realty as a Real Estate Broker in 2011, after three years with a major property management company in the Raleigh Area. He is licensed in both North Carolina and Virginia. Bo is focused on building lasting client relationships by providing the highest level of service in areas of analysis of business and space needs, market analysis, site and space selection, and lease negotiations. He is Young Alumni Chairman for the Hampden-Sydney College Triangle Area Alumni Club. He has a B.A. degree in Economics and Commerce from Hampden-Sydney College.
Wall Street Journal Commercial Real Estate News
- Deal Is Near to Develop Willets Point May 17, 2012The Bloomberg administration is nearing a deal with the Related Cos. and a real-estate firm controlled by owners of the New York Mets to build a retail and residential development on a gritty swath of Queens near Citi Field. […]
- If Kids Can Play, Will Mom Shop? May 16, 2012In their bid to keep shoppers from deserting to the Internet, more malls are adding sprawling play spaces. […]
- Brookfield to Spin Off Holdings May 15, 2012Brookfield Asset Management plans to bundle together its wide array of commercial-property holdings into a new publicly traded subsidiary, with an eye toward further growth. […]
- Pointed Spat Over World Trade Spire May 10, 2012One World Trade Center's owners are sparring with their architects over what goes on top—a dispute that could stop the structure being recognized as America's tallest. […]
- Tax Terms Amended in Empire State Building IPO May 9, 2012The Malkin family that controls the Empire State Building has agreed to change the terms of the skyscraper's public offering, making the tax treatment less punitive to small investors. […]
- Plots & Ploys: Looks Don't Matter May 9, 2012Strange looks of a building apparently aren't enough to scare off big-name investors. That's the case with 100 Federal Street in Boston—the so-called "pregnant building" recently purchased by Boston Properties. […]
- U.K. Pushes 'Social' Housing REIT Plan May 9, 2012Facing a dearth of new-home construction, the U.K. real-estate industry and government are looking at ways to encourage the formation of new real-estate investment trusts that would focus on subsidized housing. […]
- Ohio REIT Heads Upscale May 9, 2012Associated Estates Realty Corp., which owns rental-apartment buildings in cities like Indianapolis and Columbus, Ohio, is pushing into the upscale Los Angeles market despite some investor concerns. […]
- Builder Is Constructing REIT for Home Rentals May 8, 2012Beazer Homes has formed a REIT with KKR that will buy and then rent single-family homes, one of the largest and most talked-about asset classes in the real-estate business. […]
- REITs Spring an Unnerving Surprise May 7, 2012Investors are discovering the downsides of some nontraded REITs: They are being valued at prices far lower than investors had expected. […]