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KBS Realty Advisors Expands its Texas Presence with New Senior VP/Asset Manager for Dallas

Newport Beach, Calif. - Dec. 8, 2010: KBS Realty Advisors has added a 20-year real estate investment and management executive to oversee its Dallas-Fort Worth portfolio. Ken Robertson, president and founder of TR Realty Partners of Aliso Viejo, Calif., a real estate investment and advisory firm, has been named senior vice president of asset management, responsible for Texas’ largest office market.

Presently the fourth-largest commercial real estate buyer in the nation according to CoStar®, KBS-affiliated companies currently own 39 commercial office and industrial properties in Texas totaling more than 9.5 million square feet.

Robertson, a resident of Laguna Hills, will split his time between Southern California and Dallas.

“Few commercial real estate professionals have the breadth of transactional, management and advisory competence that Robertson can claim,” explained Rodney Richerson, KBS Realty Advisors president of the Central Region. “His specific experience ranges from the specialties of the office, industrial and retail sector to the highest-level of networking, negotiation and business-plan execution. His arrival to KBS is a boon to the company, especially our Dallas-Fort Worth portfolio.”

As president and founder of TR Realty Partners, Robertson represented a core group of investors in all facets of real estate investment and management, including development, acquisitions, investment structuring, asset and equity management and investment advisory and consulting. Notable national real estate concerns Ken has consulted include Invest West Financial Corporation and Birtcher-Anderson Realty Management.

Prior to TR Realty Partners, Robertson was vice president of The Staubach Company, the Newport Beach, Calif., commercial real estate brokerage firm that merged with Jones Lang LaSalle in 2008. Robertson’s responsibilities with the company ranged from serving as vice president of the Southern California region to representing blue-chip corporations and developers throughout the West, including Texas.

Robertson also previously served as a leasing broker at Equis Corp., also of Newport Beach.

A licensed California real estate broker since 1990, he received his bachelor’s degree from California State University, Long Beach, and remains active in the California Receivers Forum, Urban Land Institute and International Council of Shopping Centers.

About KBS Realty Advisors
Headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif., KBS Realty Advisors is a private equity real estate company and SEC-registered investment advisor founded in 1992 by Peter Bren and Chuck Schreiber. Since 1992, KBS has completed transactional activity of approximately $20 billion via 19 separate accounts, six commingled funds and two private equity REITs. KBS has offices in Newport Beach, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Dallas, New York, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Los Angeles. For more information, visit www.kbsrealty.com.

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