MIAMI—HFF is beefing up its commercial real estate capital markets team. In addition to hiring several real estate analysts, the firm promoted Maurice Habif and Cyrus Vazifdar to associate directors in its investment sales group.

Habif will focus on multifamily capital markets transactions across the southeastern United States. Vazifdar will hone in on hotel and lodging capital markets transactions primarily in the southeastern United States. 

“HFF has significantly grown its Miami office in the last year, increasing employee totals by 20% as a result of the continued growth and success of the Miami office's capital markets business,” says Manny de Zárraga, an executive managing director and co-head of HFF's Miami office. Other recent additions to the Florida team include real estate analysts Tracey Goo, JoJo Won, Wyatt Krapf, Maxx Carney, Simon Banke, and Marc Roth. 

Habif joined HFF in 2011 after wrapping up his MBA at the University of Pennsylvania. He interned at Urdang Securities Management while attending graduate school. Before that, he served as an analyst at Oliver Wyman, formerly Mercer Management Consulting. Habif holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University.

Vazifdar also joined HFF since 2011.  He earned his MBA from George Washington University with concentrations in lodging and finance. He launched his career in commercial real estate at Canyon Equity, focusing on the acquisition and development of ultra-luxury hotel and residential product.  Vazifdar is a LEED, Green Associate and received his bachelor's degree from Villanova University.

Goo most recently worked as an investment associate at a New York private equity firm and has an MBA from Yale School of Management and a B.S. from the University of Southern California. Won, who joins HFF from Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) where he worked as a manager/investment analyst, has a Master of Management in Hospitality from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University. 

Krapf is a recent graduate of the University of Miami where he earned his master's degree in Civil Engineering and his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.  Carney, who is a graduate of the University of Michigan, has over five years of commercial real estate experience and joins HFF from The Farbman Group, where he was a market leader. Banke and Roth are both recent graduates of The University of Miami School of Business.