Michael Hoffer

Michael Hoffer, RPA, CPM, Senior Property Manager with Cousins Properties, served as 2000 BOMA Atlanta President.

Michael began his real estate career with The Frates Company in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as a leasing agent. Shortly thereafter, he transferred to the company’s office of property management. While in Oklahoma, Michael was licensed as a real estate salesperson and, subsequently, a broker, and he also worked as an asset and property manager for Federal Savings and Loan; formed a commercial real estate brokerage, leasing, and property management firm; and led the property management department of Bauer & Associates.

In 1987, Michael returned to metro-Atlanta as General Manager of Tower Place in Buckhead, prior to joining Corporate Property Investors as General Manager of The Lenox Building in Buckhead from 1988 to 1998. Under his leadership, The Lenox Building won the 1994 BOMA Atlanta The Outstanding Office Building of the Year (TOBY) Award in the 250,000 to 500,000 Square Feet Category.

In 1998, Michael was hired to serve as President of Griffin Management Services, a full-service commercial real estate management and mechanical services company.

In 1999, Michael joined Cousins Properties as Senior Property Manager at One Ninety One Peachtree, a 1.2 million square feet, 50-story, Class A, multi-tenant office building located in downtown Atlanta. In 2001, One Ninety One Peachtree became the first property in the world to win the BOMA International Earth Award.

In 2002, he assumed the senior management duties for Cousins Properties at Bank of America Plaza. At 55 stories and 1,023 feet tall, the property was the tallest building in Atlanta at that time.

Michael was also active in the BOMA Southern Region and was elected to serve as a member of the BOMA Southern Region Board of Directors in 2000, ultimately serving two terms through 2004.

Michael received the 2005 BOMA Atlanta Committee Chair of the Year Award.

Outside of BOMA, Michael served as President of the Buckhead Business Association, was a founding member of the Downtown Atlanta Property Managers Association, and he served as a member of the Committee for a Better Atlanta.

Michael earned the Real Property Administrator (RPA) designation from the Building Owners and Managers Institute (BOMI) in 1998 and the Certified Property Manager (CPM) designation from the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM) in 1988. He graduated from the University of West Georgia with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree, with a focus in marketing and management and a minor in economics in 1971.

Michael was married to another active BOMA Atlanta member, Julie Hoffer, who was a property manager with Equity Office and later a senior manager with Cousins Properties.