Our Property Management Team
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Tom Hoban
CEO & Director of Business Development
Co-founder and primarily involved with business development and client relations, Tom has nearly two decades of experience as a property manager, broker, and investor plus three years as a commercial lending officer at a major national bank, located in Seattle.

Tom holds a BA in Business Finance from the University of Notre Dame, 1984.

Tom is active in his community, maintaining affiliations or board positions with: The Rotary Club, American Cancer Society, March of Dimes, Providence Children’s Foundation, University of Notre Dame Alumni Club Board, various Apartment Operator's Associations, Boy Scouts of America, The YMCA, The Boy’s and Girl’s Clubs of America, and many others.
 
Tom has been nationally published and writes a monthly commercial real estate column for The Snohomish County Business Journal and other regional publications. He is a frequently quoted source of real estate market information for a number of newspapers and publications. Tom has previously been featured as a host of his own weekend real estate radio talk show and is a regular guest on the nationally-syndicated Real Estate Today show. He wrote and teaches the Washington Association of Realtor’s only two approved property management courses.

In October 2003 The University of Notre Dame Alumni Club honored Tom and Shawn Hoban (both are alumni) as The University of Notre Dame “Co-Persons of the Year” for demonstrating the ideals of Notre Dame in their professional and community activities.

Tom is licensed with the State of Washington as the required Designated Broker for Coast Real Estate.

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Shawn Hoban, CPM®, CCIM
President

Co-founder, Shawn is our President and Director of Management Services, which includes direct management of a portion of the portfolio and oversight of the property manager team. Shawn's background includes his thirteen years with Coast, plus two years as a regional sales director for a national pharmaceutical company in Chicago, Ill.

Shawn holds a BA in Business Finance from the University of Notre Dame, 1988.

He is a Certified Property Manager® with the Institute of Real Estate Management® and is a Certified Commercial Investment Member®. These designations are considered the two highest achievements in the property management and real estate industry. To satisfy the state licensing requirements, Shawn is licensed with the State of Washington as an Associate Broker for Coast Management.

Shawn is associated with a number of local community and industry groups, including the local chapter of The Institute of Real Estate Management, University of Notre Dame Alumni Club, The Rotary Club, Housing Hope Board Member, Archbishop Thomas J. Murphy High School Board, Providence Everett Children’s Foundation, and many others.

Shawn was selected as one of the Puget Sound Region’s top 40 executives under the age of 40 by the Puget Sound Business Journal. Shawn is the only property management professional to earn this prestigious annual award. Under Shawn’s leadership, Coast has grown into management of over $1 billion in assets.

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Brett Carlton
Vice president and Commercial Asset Manager

It is rare in the real estate management business to have a property manager who also happens to be an accountant and a lawyer managing commercial properties.

Brett Carlton manages the commercial property management division for Coast and directly manages most of the institutional or syndicated office, retail, medical/dental, and mixed use properties. Mr. Carlton enjoys his work and offers clients a deep level of attention to detail and bottom line performance.

Brett graduated from The University of Puget Sound School of Law (now Seattle University Law School) in 1994 and also holds a BBA in Accounting with honors from The University of Texas. Prior to joining Coast, Brett was an auditor and tax staff accountant with Arthur Andersen, a special deputy prosecutor in the juvenile division of the King County Prosecutor’s Office, a Rule 9 Legal Intern for the Pierce County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Controller of a wholesale distributing firm. Brett has roughly 30 trials under his belt and a broad range of business experiences that he brings to his professional management and leasing work.

Brett’s clients trust him and reward Coast with long-term relationships. Under Brett’s charge, not a single property management client has terminated Coast for cause. Brett’s portfolio consistently out-performs market benchmarks in nearly all categories.

Brett, too, is active in the local community especially through St. Brendan Parish and School in Bothell, the Imagine Children’s Museum in Everett, The Providence General Foundation and the YMCA Adventure Guides program. Brett and his family enjoy spending time outdoors.

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Craig Goldsmith, CPM®
Vice President

Craig joined Coast Real Estate in 2001 after twenty years of real estate management experience with such notable companies as Bank of America, General Growth Properties, and Martin Smith Real Estate of Seattle.

Craig has experience in asset, property management and commercial leasing. He is responsible for the property management and leasing activities for a portion of the Coast Commercial Management portfolio. Craig has a strong track record of servicing both institutional and private owner clients.

Craig earned a BA degree in Economics and Business Administration in Santa Barbara, California with an emphasis in Finance and Accounting. He also holds the distinguished designation of Certified Property Manager (CPM®) that is awarded by the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) and a licensed salesperson with the State of Washington as required by law.

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Cedelia Felton
Director of Affordable Housing

Prior to joining Coast Real Estate Services, Cedelia "Ceedee" Felton had nearly 30 years of property management experience. Although she has managed nearly every type of property, her expertise is in Affordable Housing. She successfully started and operated a property management firm for a private developer for thirteen years. She operated her own consulting and training firm, working with a wide range of non-profit and for-profit clients, trained nationally and authored Basic Apartment Management (BAM), a handbook used nationwide.

Ceedee has been very active in the Affordable Housing Community and has served on several local, regional and national boards. She was President of the Washington State Council for Affordable and Rural Housing (CARH), served as Treasurer of the National CARH, was a co-founder and first Vice President of the Affordable Housing Management Association (AHMA) of Washington, and currently serves on the Northwest Affordable Housing Association board of trustees.

In 2009, Ceedee became only third person in Washington State to receive the “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the national Council for Affordable and Rural Housing. The award recognizes Ceedee for her many years of service to the affordable housing industry and, in particular, the individuals and families that have directly and indirectly benefited from quality, safe and affordable housing as a result of Ceedee's efforts.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington and has earned a number of professional designations including the National Assisted Housing Professional Executive and the Rural and Affordable Housing Executive designations.
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Sherry Reed
Director of Property Operations

Sherry has over twenty years of multi-family housing management experience. She is responsible for a portfolio of residential communities for Coast with an expertise in lease-up and properties demanding aggressive marketing. These include both affordable and conventional properties.

Prior to joining Coast, Sherry had the opportunity to work with three national property management firms where she gained experience in both the management and the development of garden style, mid-rise and mixed-use communities as well as renovations and leasing up new communities.

Sherry continues to be involved in local industry groups such as The Institute of Real Estate Management. She also shares her time contributing to the annual Festival of Trees benefiting the Providence Everett Children’s Foundation.