NAI Premier Unites with NAI Excel

Salt Lake City, UT. January 7, 2026: NAI Premier, a highly successful commercial real estate brokerage in the Salt Lake Valley, is expanding its market presence as it unites with NAI Excel.
Along with NAI Excel, NAI Premier will offer enhanced marketing, technology, research, education, and support for agents and clients.

Founded by Marlon Hill and Tom Longaker, NAI Premier is one of the most prominent commercial real estate brokerages along the Wasatch Front. NAI Premier team members have been involved in the sale, lease, development, and management of high profile commercial real estate projects across the region for several decades.

“We have worked collaboratively with NAI Excel for many years, said Marlon Hill, Principal Broker at NAI Premier. “There has been positive alignment, and this merger allows us to provide more resources and opportunities for our clients”. The NAI Premier team members will continue to directly provide brokerage, property management and development services for their clients.

Zach Hatch, Managing Broker for the NAI Excel office in Lehi, UT, and Retail Council Chair at NAI Global added “The commercial agents, management team, and staff at NAI Premier are some of the most experienced professionals in the industry, they are not only experts in retail development and brokerage, but their office, industrial and multifamily expertise will add strength to the combined organization.”

NAI Premier’s Salt Lake County office will join NAI Excel’s offices in Washington, Iron, and Utah counties. As part of the merger, NAI Excel is immediately opening its eighth office location at 215 E Historic 25th Street, in Ogden Utah. NAI Excel offices also include locations in Southern Nevada and Central Texas.

NAI Excel is operated by Neil, Jon, and Matt Walter, third generation real estate brokers. When they purchased ownership of the company from their father and other partners years ago, they began innovating in real estate in an unprecedented way. Their proprietary technology, and suite of services includes ARTI® Transact, ARTI® Academics, ARTI® Manager, ARTI® Tools, and ARTI® Studio. These platforms elevate marketing, technology, education, and support in a way that other real estate brokerages can’t readily replicate. NAI Excel publishes regular commercial real estate research including retail, office, industrial, and multifamily across the state of Utah, as well as the other markets they serve.

NAI Premier manages more than 1.3 million square feet of retail, office, and industrial property across the Salt Lake Valley. The team of managers at NAI Premier will continue to oversee the management of its portfolio. The combined companies now manage over 4.5 million square feet of commercial real estate in three states. “Our clients own and are acquiring property not just in the Salt Lake Valley, but across the region”, said Tom Longaker, Managing Partner at NAI Premier. “Having management services across a much wider footprint is a great asset to our clients” Longaker continued.

NAI Excel has experienced exceptional growth in recent years. In 2025, NAI Excel celebrated the grand opening of its Central Texas Headquarters, after expanding to San Antonio three years ago. With this merger with NAI Premier, NAI Excel is considering locations for its Northern Utah Headquarters in 2026.

“Given our long history of working with NAI Premier, the markets we both serve, and our shared affiliation with NAI Global, formally joining our firms was a natural next step,” said Jon Walter, President of NAI Excel. NAI Excel was founded in Southern Utah and is celebrating its 25-year anniversary in 2026.