Tom LaPerch combines more than 30 years of successful real estate experience with considerable expertise in marketing and government land planning to provide as uniquely qualified level of service. 

Commercial Director for Houlihan Lawrence in Rye Brook, New York, LaPerch possesses a wide range of knowledge including marketing, investment and management portfolio of distinctive, multi-million dollar properties in medicine, technology and land conservation.  Serving on the Town of Southeast Municipal Planning Board for over 13 years, and as chairman for the last four years,  LaPerch has a deep understanding of land zoning issues.  He has decades of commercial and residential knowledge rooted in the Westchester, Putnam, Dutchess and Fairfield counties. 

Before joining Houlihan Lawrence, he worked as director of real estate development projects for Prudential Serls Commercial Group in Dutchess County.  LaPerch achieved great recognition as top company producer five times earning the company’s National Presidential Award. 

Highly practiced in market analysis, LaPerch offers relevant and creative strategies for a vast array of properties, from apartment complexes and condo developments to shopping centers and nursing homes. 

In 2011, he brokered the $4.5 million sale of the former IBM chip fabrication plant in East Fishkill to a Chinese solar manufacturing company.  The exclusive property spanned a million square feet.  In 2013, LaPerch also closed a $4 million transaction for the abandoned Hudson River State Psychiatric Hospital in Poughkeepsie, a nearly two million-square-feet former psychiatric center on 156 acres.  In the fall of 2016, Tom successfully closed a $100 million deal for a historic property in Hong Kong and is currently representing the same client organization in other parts of Asia in addition to his numerous transactions he is engaged in throughout his local region of New York.

For the last four years, Tom has served as Town of Southeast Planning Board, where he has been a member for the past 17 years.  In March of 2017, Tom was awarded the John O. Cross Award for Outstanding Planning Board Chair by the New York Planning Federation.   In addition, Tom was a Board Member of the Putnam County Hospital Foundation, served as former chairman of the Putnam County Economic Development Corporation and served as chairman of his town’s comprehensive plan review.   

Deeply involved in the community where he lives and works, LaPerch in 2002 was named Volunteer of the Year.  He was the Brewster Little League President for three years and was director of CYO Basketball for Saint Lawrence O’Toole Brewster program for seven years.  

Offering 21^st century knowledge that encompasses all areas of commercial real estate sales and investment, LaPerch is strongly committed to keeping his clients informed of current market conditions in an ever changing world.