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Alper of Sabre Real Estate named an affiliate board member of CIBS

Marc Alper, Sabre Real Estate

Syosset, NY Marc Alper, vice president and sales manager at Sabre Real Estate Group, has been appointed an affiliate board member of the Commercial Industrial Brokers Society of Long Island (CIBS).

“We welcome Mark Alper to the affiliate board. His wealth of experience will be an asset to our organization,” said Kyle Burkhardt, president of CIBS.

Alper, who joined Garden City-based Sabre in 2016, has 20 years of commercial real estate experience and over the course of his career he has negotiated property sales valued at more than $400 million. Alper, who specializes in investment sales, previously worked at New York City-based Eastern Consolidated, GFI Realty Inc., Safeguard Realty Management Inc., and WRA Properties. He holds a bachelor of science degree in Marketing from Boston University. 

CIBS was formed in 1992 out of the shared belief among the region’s leading brokers that the region needed a unified voice to advocate on behalf of professionalism, ethics, and industry cohesion.  Today, CIBS is a leading voice and advocate for commercial development in the Long Island market.  Since its formation, CIBS has helped upgrade the industry by offering hundreds of educational programs, seminars and presentations; advocated professional standards and offered grievance resolution; provided informal mentoring relationships; raised tens of thousands of dollars for local charities; and created social settings in which colleagues have become friends, and competitors respected peers. 

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