Austin Herlihy

Austin Herlihy is an Executive Vice President at Colliers, based in the Santa Barbara region. He leads the a group of industry-leading professionals specializing across product types, focusing on leasing, development, and investment sales. Throughout his career, Austin has completed over $2 billion in total transaction value, spearheading the sale of the Fairmont Orchid Hotel and Hotel Californian/Entrada de Santa Barbara project, which changed the landscape of lower State Street and added further definition to the Funk Zone.

Austin and the Herlihy-Parker-Waters team offer their clientele a dynamic service experience through elevated real estate solutions and a boutique approach. Highly regarded as a trusted, strategic, and knowledgeable partner, Austin is known for his consistency, reputation, and top-performer status over the years.

Leading a team of four professionals, Austin is responsible for ensuring quality, consistency, and continuity through Colliers' advisory services delivery model, encompassing multi-faceted client services over a broad geographical platform. Over the last twenty years, Austin and his team have become known for their enterprising approach and the high-profile properties along State Street and Coast Village Road, which they represent.

Transactions of note include 25 E. Mason St. (SONOS R&D building) $19 million; "Sevilla" (Formerly "Chapala One") $30.5 million; Miramar Hotel – First Trust Deed $50 million; 740 State St. (Pinkberry & Lululemon building) $11 million; REI Center, $24 million; 900 State St. (Marshalls building) $15 million; 1001 State St. (Amazon building) $37 million; 71 S. Los Carneros, 105,000 SF Industrial building, $28 million—all transactions with Radius Commercial Real Estate.

Before commercial real estate, Austin was a project manager/ professional sailor for some of the world's most successful professional sailing teams and businesspeople. In 2011, Austin won the Farr 30 World Championship aboard the Groovederci. He remains active in the Santa Barbara community and completed the Santa Barbara Foundation's Katherine Harvey Fellowship program, which teaches young professionals about the nonprofit community and the grant-making and fundraising processes.