Debra R. Napolitano, President + Founder

Deb is a Portland native with more than 18 years experience in commercial real estate.  During this time, she enjoyed a highly successful 10 year career with CBRE/The Boulos Company, working primarily in the Southern Maine market as an office leasing specialist and investment broker, handling many significant transactions in the market. In 2001 she left The Boulos Company to spend more time with her sons Sam, Tony, and Luca. Deb returned to real estate when a valued client asked her to act as a consultant on national due diligence projects. The work took her to the country’s largest metropolitan cities, including Miami, Baltimore, Atlantic City, Cleveland, Washington. Through this work, Deb has become more aware of the trends and potential that could exist in the dynamic Southern Maine market.

With renewed energy and vision Deb created Paragon Commercial Real Estate. Deb is most proud of the quality and long-standing relationships she has built over the years, and her company is built on the mission of ‘providing excellent service to a select clientele’.

Steve Baumann, Vice President + Partner

Steve joined Paragon Commercial Real Estate as a VP/partner, after a successful ten-year career with CBRE/The Boulos Company in Portland, Maine. As Partner, he is working closely with Deb Napolitano to expand and diversify the firm.

Steve is highly experienced in the sale and leasing of retail, office and investment real estate, and he is uniquely proficient in assisting clients in repositioning their holdings to compete with new inventory. Steve has been involved in more than $100 million in sale/lease transactions in his career. Steve's clients forge new images, generate higher revenues and lower vacancies. He has been a tremendous asset to many owners in greater Portland. Steve also manages, owns and develops his family's real estate portfolio.

Steve is active in many local organizations and was appointed to the Old Port Task Force in 2007. Steve resides in Falmouth, Maine with his wife Heather and their two children.

Evelyn Garland, Broker

Evelyn has extensive experience in real estate consulting, financing and development. A former project development partner with Trammell Crow Residential Companies in Dallas, she also managed large portfolios of financing for developers in Philadelphia and Boston. A native of Portland, Evelyn was also a senior asset manager at Recoll Management and a vice president of Fleet Bank.

As a founding principal of Questor Real Estate Consulting, Evelyn has substantial experience in the analysis of all types of real estate due diligence, including large loan portfolio transactions and securitization underwriting, and has developed budgets and asset management strategies for a wide variety of properties. Her degrees include a BA from Wheaton College, an MBA from the University of Texas and an MS from the University of Southern Maine. Evelyn resides in Cape Elizabeth with her husband and
two sons.

 

Sonya Dillon, Office Administrator

Sonya Dillon joined Paragon Commercial Brokers in the summer of 2008.  Before staying home with her children for 5 years, she was an assistant broker at CBRE/The Boulos Company and assisted Debra Napolitano and Steve Baumann with all of there brokerage needs. 

Sonya resides in Windham with her husband and two children.