MIAMI—In a move to be ready when the South Florida office market fully recovers, CBRE just hired four new leasing professionals. Led by managing director Ken Krasnow, the new quartet of brokers is poised to hit the ground running.

Maggie Guajardo Kurtz and Diana Parker came on board from Cushman & Wakefield to handle office landlord and tenant representation in Miami-Dade County. Michael Wilson and Owen Sagar, based in the Boca Raton office, came over from Grubb & Ellis and will focus on servicing office property owners and occupiers in the Palm Beach County market.

“These new hires are not coming on board to handle a specific assignment,” Krasnow tells GlobeSt.com. “We feel there’s a clear opportunity for us to grow, specifically our office agency practice in Miami-Dade. We expected a sustained growth cycle in office leasing activity for the next several years—and we’re investing in that growth now.”

Kurtz and Parker each have over 20 years of commercial real estate experience in South Florida. They will serve as senior vice presidents of CBRE, bringing experience with high caliber office parks to the table. Meanwhile, Wilson and Sagar also join CBRE as senior vice president and vice president, respectively. Both men have more than 18 years of experience in South Florida’s commercial real estate market.

CBRE’s four new hires are the latest in a string of hires across several commercial real estate sectors. CBRE has hired 12 commercial real estate brokers in the past six months to handle office, industrial and retail transactions. Krasnow sees signs of organic growth taking place that, although not moving the needle much now, is setting the stage for stronger growth in the years ahead.

“If you break the market down, there’s certain pockets that are clearly doing better than others,” Krasnow notes. “Brickell is a very healthy market. Pockets in the Gables are doing very well. You really have to look almost submarket by submarket, even bocks by space. So if you are looking for a small space on Brickell, the market is really tight. That doesn’t show up on the big picture statistics that we put out, but the needle is moving in the right direction.”