Newmark's D.C. Office Snags Carr Properties Broker As Landlord Rep

Newmark’s D.C. office is beefing up its landlord leasing services.

The firm has hired Kaitlyn Rausse, a former Carr Properties leasing executive who took home two recent honors at D.C.'s landmark brokerage awards ceremony, as a senior managing director, Newmark announced in a press release shared with Bisnow.

She joins Vice Chairman Doug Mueller and Executive Managing Director Ed Clark to round out an agency leasing team that’s been in the works for years.

The move is a transition for Rausse to third-party leasing. She has thus far spent her career working for ownership entities — first at JBG Smith and most recently with Carr as a senior vice president of leasing.

From her desk at Newmark’s downtown D.C. office on her first day, Rausse told Bisnow she’s excited to parlay her experience of sitting at ownership tables and across the local market.

“It's time for a team that underwrites and thinks and really executes like an institutional owner, which, obviously, I have all of the backing from that,” Rausse said. “So I'm now ready for this side and ready to really pair it with the execution that they already have at scale.”

The idea for the agency leasing team was first envisioned by longtime Newmark broker Clark in 2023. Mueller joined as the second executive-level hire at the beginning of 2025 after quietly leaving JLL, and Rausse completes the trio. 

The team has 24 property listings from owners including BXP, Nuveen, Norges, Artemis, Hines, MetLife, Onward, Altus and Taicoon Property Partners, a spokesperson for the brokerage said.

Mueller said Rausse has been the team’s “No. 1 draft pick for a while” as it looked to round out its skillset and help clients through this period of office upheaval in the city. 

“Owners need creative solutions right now, they need people to be thinking outside the box, and I think Kaitlyn is that complimentary asset for our team — just brings a fresh perspective and a history of dealing with tough situations, candidly, that so many of our owners are going through right now,” he said. 

Rausse’s leasing tenure with Carr began in July 2017 and ended in November. Over the last few years, her deals included leases with law firms Freshfields and ArentFox Schiff at D.C.'s Midtown Center, both backfilling space that Fannie Mae is vacating when it halves its footprint in 2029.

“What our clients need are wartime generals right now, and I think Kaitlyn is exactly that,” Mueller said. “I think she's a wartime general that has been through the fire, has been through situations with Carr, with the Fannie situation, where it was handled so well with a tenant that was going to downsize and then backfill space.” 

In the last year that Rausse was with Carr, the company was rapidly shrinking its D.C. office portfolio. Last summer, it turned over three office buildings in the city to a J.P. Morgan Asset Management fund — a deal executed in order for the investment giant to redeem its 36% equity stake.

That came just months after it sold other D.C.-area office properties, like 901 K St. NW to Shorenstein and 4500 East West Highway to a family-owned real estate business.

“The portfolio shifted, and after a season of wonderful victories, and almost nine years of being with them, I took the time, like I said, to intentionally focus on what I wanted to do next professionally,” Rausse said.

Allison DiGiovanni, Newmark's executive vice president and mid-Atlantic market leader, told Bisnow that changes to owners' leasing portfolios are always “an opportunity to recruit.” 

“We had our eyes on Kaitlyn, and we were hoping that the shifting in the portfolio would mean that she picked her head up and said, ‘What's out there, and can I leverage my existing experience and parlay that somewhere else?’”

“We're just super relieved and beyond excited to get cranking,” DiGiovanni added.

Rausse was named the Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Association's Developer/Landlord Agent of the Year two years in a row — in 2024 and 2025. A release from Newmark said that between 2022 and 2025, Rausse “played a key role” in leasing more than 2M SF of office.