Miami/Boca Raton, FL – January 27, 2012 – (RealEstateRama) — CBRE announced this week the addition of four new leasing professionals to the firm’s South Florida operations. Maggie Guajardo Kurtz and Diana Parker join CBRE to provide office landlord and tenant representation services in Miami-Dade County. Michael Wilson and Owen Sagar, based in the Boca Raton office, will focus on servicing office property owners and occupiers in the Palm Beach County market.
“CBRE anticipates a sustained growth cycle in leasing activity for the next several years. As such, we are strategically investing in our platform by bringing in established leasing professionals. We are very excited to welcome these industry leaders to further solidify CBRE’s dominant position in the market,” said Mary Jo Eaton, Senior Managing Director for Florida.
Maggie Kurtz and Diana Parker each have over 20 years experience in South Florida. They have gained notoriety for their extensive experience in marketing Class A office developments as well as providing tenant representation to many Fortune 500 companies. Both Kurtz and Parker join CBRE as Senior Vice Presidents.
Their extensive experience is underscored by their alignment with the development and leasing of high caliber office parks. Clients have included Equitable Life Insurance Company, Tishman Speyer Properties, ING Clarion, USAA Realty, Deka Immobilien GmbH, The Graham Companies and Testa Inmuebles to name a few.
A sampling of the team’s tenant representation clients includes Elizabeth Arden (corporate headquarters relocation), Starbucks Corporation, Cordis Corporation, Hewlett-Packard Company, Johnson & Johnson (Latin America headquarters) and General Electric.
In Boca Raton, Michael Wilson and Owen Sagar are joining CBRE as Senior Vice President and Vice President, respectively. Each has over 18 years of experience in South Florida’s commercial real estate market. They are highly respected for their expertise in providing tenant and landlord representation for office and industrial product in South Florida. They join CBRE to focus on providing brokerage services to office owners and occupiers in the Palm Beach County market.
Their current landlord representation clients include Invesco, CDR Realty, Caproc, American Continental Properties, and MB Real Estate, accounting for more than 1.7 million square feet of prime office space in the market.
Notable tenant representation clients include some of the region’s most established financial services institutions such as Wells Fargo, Wachovia Bank, First Union, Morgan Stanley, Metropolitan Life, and TIAA-CREF, AEW Capital Management, and GE Capital Real Estate to name a few.
In the past six months, CBRE has welcomed 12 established professionals to the South Florida market to serve owners and occupiers of office, industrial and retail product.
About CBRE Group, Inc.
CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm (in terms of 2010 revenue). The Company has approximately 31,000 employees (excluding affiliates), and serves real estate owners, investors and occupiers through more than 300 offices (excluding affiliates) worldwide. CBRE offers strategic advice and execution for property sales and leasing; corporate services; property, facilities and project management; mortgage banking; appraisal and valuation; development services; investment management; and research and consulting. Please visit our Web site at www.cbre.com.
Contact:
Elizabeth Cross
Marketing Director, FL
305.428.6373
elizabeth.cross (at) cbre (dot) com
Lauren Crawford
Communications & Media Manager, FL
813.273.8482
lauren.crawford (at) cbre (dot) com
