Professional Expertise 

For over 15 years, Allyson Bowen has focused her commercial real estate expertise on solving tenant occupancy issues. In her role as a senior managing director in Manhattan, Allyson handles every aspect of the real estate transaction from site selection and financial analysis to lease negotiation, execution and move-in.

Throughout her tenure with Savills, Allyson has represented numerous high-profile clients. She was part of the team that represented the New York Law School in its 500,000 square-foot multi-faceted redevelopment initiative and was the lead broker in the New York region for Savills national account with the General Services Administration—a 12 million-square-foot contract. Allyson’s most notable clients also include: Nike, Sony, Smithsonian Institution, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Mediaocean and Next Fifteen.

Prior to Savills, Allyson held executive positions in the leisure and hospitality industries, and in not-for-profit organizations including serving as the executive director of two NYC landmark museums.

Awards, Achievements and Activities

Allyson has been named one of BISNOW’s “50 Most Influential Women in New York Commercial Real Estate.” She was selected as one of CREW’s “20 under 40,” a compilation of the nation’s top 20 emerging women leaders in the field of commercial real estate under the age of 40, and was a finalist for REBNY’s “Most Promising Salesperson of the Year.” She was also part of the team that won REBNY’s first-place “Henry Hart Rice Most Ingenious Deal of the Year” award. 

Allyson is a founding member and Co-Chair of the Yale Alumni Real Estate Association (Yale AREA) and has served on the Steering Committee since its inception in 2006. She is an active member of The Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) and the New York chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW).

Allyson currently serves as the President of the Parents Association of the Montessori School of Manhattan, and is a former member of the Massachusetts Board of Education.