His voice is heard worldwide. Now his Atlanta real estate firm goes global.
Michael Bull’s commercial real estate insights may originate in Atlanta, but they’ve long been accessible over the airwaves far and wide.
That reach is about to get even larger now that Bull’s namesake firm has signed a partnership with global reach.
Bull Realty announced in late October it agreed to join TCN Worldwide, a commercial real estate brokerage alliance that spans 200 markets. Bull, who has run "America’s Commercial Real Estate Show" on radio and podcast platforms from his Atlanta office since 2010, said the deal will give his brokers a much wider platform.
“It expands our reach nationally and globally,” he said. “It expands our exposure when we’re marketing properties.”
Launched in 1998, Bull has grown his firm from scrappy Southern startup to one of Atlanta’s 20 largest commercial real estate brokerage operations, according to the Atlanta Business Chronicle. He currently employs 35 brokers and 10 staffers at his company’s Sandy Springs office.
In October 2010, he launched his weekly radio show where he and guests muse on commercial real estate topics. Just as real estate is measured in cycles, he is starting to see original topics rebound to relevancy on his program.
“The first show was on commercial loan workout,” Bull said, referencing a massive issue in the fallout of the Great Recession. “It almost took that long for commercial workouts to be a topical subject again (after the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on commercial real estate).”
TCN will be a title sponsor of the show going forward, and its backing will help empower Bull’s brokers as they expand beyond the Southeast.
Even amid the TCN deal, Bull Realty has remained busy. It recently brokered the sale of a 17-story tower in the Raleigh market, and Bull said an 81,000-square-foot office building in Morrow is under contract.
“Bull Realty has established a strong reputation in the Atlanta market and across the Southeast,” Ross Ford, president and CEO of TCN, said in a news release. “The firm’s leadership and proven track record of providing outstanding client service make them a valued addition to our global network.”
THE WATER COOLER
This column has been adapted from the November edition of The Water Cooler, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s LinkedIn newsletter about the office market and the workplace. It will publish Nov. 18. Keep up with the latest insider commercial real estate news by subscribing on the AJC’s LinkedIn page.


