William Holly

Holly’s career in commercial real estate began in 1990 with Codina Bush Group where he worked as a commercial real estate broker. He worked with Jeb Bush and Armando Codina leasing and selling office building.

During the 2008 financial crisis, in his stint as a developer, Holly had encountered a financial setback related to his development of approximately $150 million of active commercial real estate projects at that time and sought chapter 7 bankruptcy protection as the guarantor of these projects.

William Holly is the president and founder of Patton Real Estate which is a commercial real estate firm headquartered in Coral Gables, Florida. Holly has earned many awards and recognition in the commercial real estate business including the 'Entrepreneur of the Year Award' by the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce (GMCC) in 2007.

Holly founded his own company, Holly Real Estate, a commercial real estate company in 2002, where he was the firm’s chairman and the CEO. Apart from handling development and brokerage, the company had a focus on green development. He developed Miami Green, the first green LEED-certified office building in Miami.

William Holly was born on October 7, 1968, in Coral Gables, Florida. His father John Hayes Holly, Jr. was an ophthalmologist in Miami and graduated from the University of Miami, School of Medicine, and his mother, Herta Deichmann Holly was an attorney who graduated from the University of Miami, School of Law. Holly holds dual bachelor's degrees in history and a Bachelor of Science in international affairs from Florida State University and Louisiana State University. Holly and his wife Allison Moore Holly reside with his family in Coral Gables, Florida with their three children.