Given is the senior member of CBRE's Florida multi-housing group, which completed $2.3 billion in sales in 2004 and almost $2 billion in the first seven months of this year. He joined this CBRE office in 2004 and has since participated in selling and consulting assignments for more than 130 investment properties representing more than 45,000 multifamily units along with land transactions valued in excess of $6 billion.

"The South Florida multifamily market is one of the hottest in the US," Given says. "Low interest rates, rising land and construction costs, and strong regional demographics are driving the biggest condominium conversion boom ever witnessed in South Florida. Investors have become more efficient in identifying potential opportunities and are looking to capitalize on them before market changes occur."

Robinson and Oswald join Peter R. Harrison, the Transwestern SVP who heads his firm's South Florida operations, along with Darryl Robinson, both of whom came from the Miami office of Cushman & Wakefield, and Michael Griffith, who came to Transwestern's office here from the Dallas office of CBRE. Walter Robinson was previously VP of project leasing, and Oswald was a senior associate for TCC here.

Together they were responsible for leasing at six South Florida office properties aggregating more than 1.3 million sf. Among the buildings they represented are the 415,000-sf Brickell Square and the three-building, 17-acre Doral Costa Office Park in Doral, which has an aggregate of 280,000 sf.