Dan Bellow is stepping down from his role as JLL’s Houston market leader after more than 50 years in the commercial real estate industry.

JLL appointed Ronnie Deyo as president of its Houston offices, taking effect Jan. 1, when Bellow will transition to an advisory role. Deyo will lead JLL’s brokerage teams in Houston and Louisiana, overseeing business operations and more than 150 employees.

The pair have worked together for more than 30 years, starting at The Staubach Co. – Houston, of which Bellow was president before the company's 2008 merger with JLL. Bellow’s career has focused on office tenant representation with an emphasis on major corporate accounts, workplace strategies, build-to-suit projects and dispositions of surplus properties.

Bellow helped grow JLL’s Houston office from 50 employees and three service lines in 2008 to more than 360 employees and 12 service lines today, the Houston Business Journal reported. JLL consolidated three Houston offices to an 82K SF space at 200 Park Place in the Galleria area in 2021.

A graduate of the University of Houston, Bellow serves on boards for organizations including the Greater Houston Partnership, Texas Medical Center and YMCA of Greater Houston.

“Dan has always exemplified leadership in its truest form, and the proof is shown not just through the accomplishments and accolades he’s accrued over the years, but also in how he is viewed by those that have worked with him,” JLL CEO of Americas Leasing Advisory John Gates said in a statement.

Deyo has been at the head of JLL’s 30-person office tenant representation team for 15 years, the HBJ reported. His notable deals include representing Hewlett Packard Enterprises in its headquarters relocation, announced in 2018, and last year representing Dow Chemical in its prelease of the forthcoming CityCentre Six.

The succession announcement comes amid a wave of new market heads and expansions at brokerages across the country. Cushman & Wakefield in September named new market heads in Atlanta, Minneapolis and St. Paul, Seattle and Portland as it doubled its 2024 hiring numbers.

Transwestern brought on a trio of market leaders in August and September, hiring Clint Bawcom in Houston and putting new faces at the top of its Chicago team and overseeing the Southeast.