Subject: Brokerage Firms-general (BROK)

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff ReportHollidayFenoglio Fowler saw its revenue drop by more than half in the third quarter, to$31 million from $68 million, a clear indication of the impact the creditmarkets collapse is having on the commercial real estate ...

Meridian Capital Group has opened a Dallas office. The New York mortgage brokerage firm has, so far this year, completed more than $500 million of financings in Texas, prompting it to open the office. It has handled business in the ...

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Apex Commercial Inc., a Brookfield, Wis., commercial real estate brokerage firm will affiliate itself with Grubb& Ellis Co. The firm can now gain referrals through Grubb & Ellis when out-of-state investors need commercial real estate services in ...

Cushman & Wakefield brokered the $57.6 million sale of the Versailles at Aberdeen Station, a 290-unit apartment complex in Aberdeen, N.J.Avalon Bay Communities purchased the property for its AvalonBay Value Added Fund LP from BlackRock.The property was constructed in 2002 ...

Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Brokerage Co. brokered the $31 million sale of the Laurel Mall in Laurel, Md.The 502,589 square-foot property was purchased by a venture between Somera Capital Management of Los Angeles and AEW Capital Management. The ...

Kansas City Business Journal Hendricks & Partners Inc., a Phoenix multifamily broker, has opened a Kansas City, Mo., office. The office will be lead by Bill Powell, a 21-year veteran who most recently worked for CB Richard Ellis, and Phil ...

Crain's Cleveland Business Duke Realty's decision to vacate the Northeast Ohio real estate market is expected to have a severe negative impact on the region. Although the biggest cut is to the region's image, the exit is also adding fears ...

Cushman & Wakefield Inc. is buying Royal LePage Commercial Inc., the biggest commercial real-estate broker in Canada, in terms of market share.According to the Wall Street Journal, Brascan Corp. is selling the firm for a price expected to be about ...

June 30, 2005 New York PostThe Corcoran Group and its sister company, the Sunshine Group, have joined forces to become the Corcoran Sunshine Group, a dream team of development marketing. NRT, the parent company of the two residential real estate ...

June 27, 2005 Trammell Crow Co. has been tapped to market the 150-acre Charlotte Coliseum property in Charlotte, N.C., for sale as a mixed-use development site. The city isn't paying Crow a fee to market the property, but the company ...