Sean Sears

ean Sears is the founder and managing partner of Blackseeds LLC. Blackseeds LLC is focus on 

investment and capital market sales in addition to long term lease execution. His responsibilities include

the management of sales operations, transactional service, and client relations. Prior to starting 

Blackseeds, Sean was a Director at CPEX Real Estate (2019-2020) where he led a team of dedicated sales 

professionals that focus on the generation and execution of Mix-ed Use properties. Before taking on the 

role of Director of the Mixed-Use team, Mr. Sears was the Associate Director of the Development and 

Conversion Sales Team at CPEX Real Estate (2014-2018) where him and his team earned the recognition 

of Costar (2018) “Power Brokers”. 

While at CPEX Sean provide advisory, acquisition, and transactional services to commercial real 

estate owners, not-for- profit institutions, and business owners, including sales, joint ventures, and long term leases. To date he has evaluated and underwritten over 171 properties and personally executed 

the sale of over 98 transactions, sold over 313 thousand square feet of existing property with an 

aggregate value of approximately $337 million and a total of 1.75M buildable square feet. 

CPEX was not Sean’s first venture into real estate. Prior, Sean held several positions including 

Residential Broker at Citi Habitats/Corcoran, Preston Properties, and the Siderow Organization. In these 

positions, he has completed a wide variety of lease and sales transactions for condominiums, co-operatives, town houses, art galleries, and office space.

Sean also spent time as a proprietary equity trader for a select group of boutique trading firms, 

which included managing a New York Stock Exchange portfolio worth over $5 million while at Hold 

Brothers. In addition, he previously worked in restaurant management and customer service in New 

York, including the Time Hotel, where he oversaw the overall operation of the restaurant and lounge as 

the maître’ d and general manager. 

Sean is a graduate of the University of Guyana with an Agriculture and Environmental Science 

degree. He also studied at CUNY Hunter College and received a certificate in Property Management, and 

Real Estate Development from the Schack Institute of Real Estate at the New York University School of 

Professional Studies.

Professional Affiliations and Licenses: 

New York Real Estate Broker License 

California Department of Real Estate DRE# 02182233

Securities and Exchange Commission Licenses -Series 7, 55 and 63 

Emergency Medical Technician