Subject: General (EXECG)

Joseph Azrack, the head of Apollo Global Management's real estate operation, is said to be in talks to change his role at the investment manager, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.  And the buzz is that he ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report BGC Partners Inc., a securities broker that last year jumped into the commercial real estate services business with both feet, has added a team of seasoned commercial mortgage lenders. The team, Mark F. Brown, ...

Arvind Bajaj, a 25-year veteran of the commercial real estate business, has joined Madison Marquette as part of an effort by the retail-property specialist to expand its investment-management business. Bajaj joined the Washington, D.C., company's Madison Marquette Property Investments unit ...

Commercial Real Estate Direct Staff Report Pat Blount, a 23-year veteran of the loan-sales business, has moved to the buy-side. The long-time Oklahoman has moved north, to Horsham, Pa., to join Gibraltar Capital and Asset Management, a unit of homebuilder ...

Joseph Harbert, a 30-year commercial real estate industry veteran, has been named president of the eastern region for Colliers International. He's joining from Cushman & Wakefield, where he was chief operating officer of its New York tri-state region and area ...

Xceligent Inc. has named George Slusser executive vice president of business development.  Slusser most recently served as the chief operating officer at Sperry Van Ness, a commercial real estate advisory and brokerage firm in Irvine, Calif. Before that, he was ...

CBRE Group Inc. has announced that Robert Sulentic, the company's president, will succeed the retiring Brett White as chief executive at the end of the year. White, who has been chief executive since 2005, will remain on the company's board. ...

Kenneth Leventhal, the founder of what had been the country's largest public accounting firm that specialized in real estate, passed away yesterday at the age of 91. The firm he founded in 1949, Kenneth Leventhal & Co., was merged into ...

A team of six real estate attorneys have left the troubled Dewey & LeBoeuf law firm and joined Venable, more than doubling the size of its New York real estate practice. The attorneys include Peter S. Britell, Gordon J. Davis ...

Leslie H. Loffman, previously partner of DLA Piper and co-chair of the firm's REIT practice, has joined Proskauer as tax partner in its New York office. Loffman, who has more than 30 years of experience in advising REITs, provides tax ...