For nine years, we have asked the area's commercial real estate brokers to share with us their production numbers. We rank them to see who moved the most real estate locally.

The 47 brokers ranking on the Kansas City Business Journal 's 2024 Heavy Hitters List collectively closed hundreds of deals and sold or leased billions of dollars of local property in 2023.

Among this year's batch of CRE brokers, there were a couple standouts breaking into the top 10. Harry Trotter and TJ Wahl, senior advisers at Kansas City-based multifamily specialist MMG Real Estate Advisors, advanced straight into the No. 1 overall spot.

While it's the first time Trotter has been on KCBJ's List, Wahl is making his return to the ranking. His previous appearance among the Heavy Hitters came in 2021 when he worked at Newmark Zimmer.

According to MMG's Patrick Sullivan, Trotter and Wahl were chosen to lead the firm's Kansas City team when Michael Sullivan moved into an executive role running its national brokerage team. As 50-50 partners, the two closed just shy of $390 million across 17 local deals. (In 2023, Michael Sullivan ranked No. 1 on KCBJ's Heavy Hitters List .)

Raegen Root, a senior financial analyst with Newmark Zimmer, shot into a tie for fifth. The broker is an equal partner on a three-person team that closed roughly $291 million in transactions.

This week's List Extra also breaks downs the top 12 players in four core CRE categories: industrial, office, multifamily and retail.

In total, the area's industrial Heavy Hitters produced about $614 million in local dollar volume, the multifamily brokers produced about $578 million, the office brokers about $293 million and the retail brokers $110 million.

This year, twenty-two of the area's commercial real estate firms submitted their top brokers for recognition. Here's a quick look at which brokerages participate and how many of their people appeared among the 47 brokers included in the expanded, online version of the Heavy Hitters List .

It's worth noting that this List is missing participants from some of the area's biggest commercial real estate firms, which chose not to submit.

Here's a few of the bigger brokerages that didn't participate in 2024: Block & Co. Inc. Realtors, CBRE Inc., Colliers International Kansas City, Copaken Brooks, Cushman & Wakefield, Kessinger Hunter & Co. LC, Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Services and NAI Heartland.

For more details on those firms' volume, we recommend referencing our annual CRE Firms Lists ranked by local dollar volume and number of transactions .