Subject: Brokerage Firms-general (BROK)

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Hodges Ward Elliott, perennially among the country's most-active sales brokers of hotel properties, is making a push to expand into the office, retail and land sectors. The company, which is headquartered in Atlanta and ...

Newmark Grubb Knight Frank is growing big-time. The former Newmark & Co., which was acquired by BGC Partners Inc. three years ago, so far has grown by acquiring regional brokerage firms and adding seasoned teams. It's planning to continue on ...

HFF has expanded its Philadelphia office with the addition of two managing directors and one senior financial analyst on its debt-placement team. It has hired Ryan Ade and James Conley as managing directors and Christopher Bigos as a senior financial ...

Cushman & Wakefield arranged the sale of the 667,000-square-foot One Kendall Square property in Cambridge, Mass., to DivcoWest. As reported, the San Francisco investment manager paid $395 million, or roughly $592/sf, for the mixed-use property and financed it with a ...

Eric Gelber, a senior vice president of CBRE Group, where he handles the leasing and sales of retail properties in the New York area, will embark on a 48-hour run to raise money for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation. Gelber, ...

The Real Deal Joseph Moinian has filed plans with New York City to build a 1,191-unit apartment complex at 605 West 42nd St. in Manhattan. He purchased the site for $120 million in 2005 and started to develop on it, ...

Puget Sound Business Journal Essex Property Trust has paid $19 million, or about $339/unit, for the 56-unit Annaliese apartment project in Seattle. The property, at 110 Sixth Ave. North next to the Seattle Center, opened in 2010. It includes a ...

CB Richard Ellis has been the U.S.' most active investment sales broker this year, handling $11.9 billion of property deals during the first half, according to Real Capital Analytics. A total of $90.6 billion of investment-sales transactions took place during ...

Crain's Chicago Business Chicago developer Krzystof Karbowski has been hit with three foreclosure suits alleging that he defaulted on $4.8 million in loans on apartment buildings in the city. In its lawsuits, RBS Citizens N.A. is claiming that Karbowski failed ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Major brokerage firms are responding to the lack of property transactions by launching units to help clients deal with distressed properties and loans.Grubb & Ellis, Jones Lang LaSalle, CB Richard Ellis, Cushman & Wakefield ...