Two principals, start to finish.

The importance of an assignment isn’t measured by its size. We built Redtail so every client receives the same level of attention, experience, and commitment.

Hayden McCarty

Principal & Co-Founder

Hayden McCarty is Principal and Co-Founder of Redtail Commercial Partners, with ten years of experience advising clients on office, industrial, medical office, and land properties across Central Texas.

After graduating from Baylor, Hayden spent eight years at an Austin commercial real estate brokerage before joining a private equity firm, where he oversaw leasing and investment sales for its Central Texas portfolio. His experience working on both sides of the business gives him a practical understanding of how owners evaluate real estate decisions.

Hayden works with investors, property owners, and businesses on leasing, acquisitions, and dispositions. He brings an owner’s perspective to his assignments and believes clients deserve a straightforward assessment of their options.

Born in Tyler and raised in Austin, Hayden lives here with his wife and two kids. Family comes first, by a wide margin. The time that’s left over usually ends up on a golf course, on the water with a rod, or on a snowboard somewhere colder.

Stephen Pannes

Principal & Co-Founder

Stephen Pannes is Principal and Co-Founder of Redtail Commercial Partners, with more than a decade of experience advising clients on office, industrial, and land properties across Central Texas.

He has completed more than 450 transactions for institutional investors, private equity firms, family offices, entrepreneurs, and growing businesses, across investment sales, leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, and development.

He’s most comfortable in the details: underwriting an acquisition, repositioning an asset, negotiating a lease. He’d rather advise a client against a bad deal than push them toward one.

Stephen lives in Austin with his wife, daughter, and golden retriever. He enjoys golf, dirt biking, bird hunting, fly fishing, and just about any project that gives him an excuse to work with his hands, though free time is a little harder to come by these days.

How we work.

  1. Understand what matters.

    Before we recommend anything, we work out what’s driving the decision: the property, the market, the numbers, and what you want out of it. That understanding shapes our advice.

  2. Principal-led.

    The person you hire runs your deal. From strategy to execution, the relationship stays with the people accountable for the outcome.

  3. Prepare relentlessly.

    The work done early shows up later. Preparation is what gives us room to adjust when something changes.

  4. Communicate early.

    You hear the critical news first. We’d rather make the uncomfortable call today than let a problem become a surprise later.

  5. Think long term.

    We want to be the call you make whenever real estate comes up. That only happens if we earned it on the last one.

Coffee’s on us.

Call either of us, or come by the office downtown.

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