Standing Out in the New York Market

NEW YORK—With three years under his belt as Colliers International‘s president, eastern region, Joseph Harbert has a lot to be proud of, including diversifying the firm’s New York clients, recruiting key professionals and pioneering a successful broker-training program. GlobeSt.com spoke exclusively with Harbert about his role, the New York brokerage scene and the firm’s Accelerate training program.

Harbert says that Colliers’s growth plans have dovetailed perfectly with the upswing in the New York market, enabling the eastern region to develop its infrastructure and refine the way it does business. Part and parcel of that has been growing its staff. “We’ve been very busy, growing our talent and our revenue,” says Harbert. “Not only have we retained good people, we have especially built up a vibrant research, marketing and strategic consulting and financial analytics practice. It was important to have a state-of-the-art consulting operation in New York that provides financial analysis, cutting edge research and top of the line marketing to the brokers.”