JLL Capital Markets expanded its Texas Industrial Investment Sales and Advisory team with the strategic relocation of Senior Director Witt Westbrook to Dallas and the addition of Rob Ellwood as Director in the Austin office.
Both Ellwood and Westbrook will be part of JLL’s National Capital Markets Industrial group, led by Senior Managing Directors Trent Agnew and John Huguenard.
Senior Director Witt Westbrook will relocate from Austin to Dallas by year-end to strengthen JLL’s presence in the Dallas-Fort Worth industrial market. He will continue to provide support to Central Texas, where Rob Ellwood and Kyle Mueller will cover the region. Westbrook joined the firm’s Austin office in May 2024, where he has been advising industrial clients on dispositions, acquisitions and equity raises while remaining active on land transactions. He brings eight years of combined real estate experience, having closed over $1.5 billion in transactional volume.
Westbrook was recognized as the Austin Business Journal’s “Heavy Hitter” for building sales in 2024, leading the market with four deals totaling 2.3 million square feet of property sold. Working alongside Senior Managing Director Trent Agnew and the broader Central Texas team, his notable transactions included the sale of the 1.4-million-square-foot Kyle 35 Logistics Park, one of the largest Class A industrial trades in Central Texas market history.
Rob Ellwood joins JLL as Director, bringing specialized knowledge and experience in the industrial real estate sector along the Central Texas trade corridor. Prior to JLL, Ellwood worked at Transwestern, focusing on industrial leasing across the Austin, San Antonio and Laredo markets, with additional buyer representation experience.
A native Spanish speaker born in Monterrey, Mexico, and raised in San Antonio, Ellwood brings valuable bilingual capabilities alongside previous experience on the principal side of business in Mexico. This background positions him as an immediate asset in helping cover the growing border market regions of Laredo, El Paso and the Rio Grande Valley. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Spanish International Trade and Economics from Auburn University.
Since 2021, the Texas Industrial team has completed $13.6 billion in industrial sales, totaling over 120 million square feet. The expanded team now includes Senior Managing Director Trent Agnew (Houston), Managing Director Charles Strauss (Houston), Senior Directors Tom Weber (Dallas), Kyle Mueller (San Antonio) and Witt Westbrook (Dallas), along with Directors Rob Ellwood (Austin), Pauli Kerr (Dallas) and Lance Young (Houston).