BELLEVUE, WA—Colliers International has addedof Kim Hutchins and Steve Pelluerto its brokerage team in an effort to create a Nonprofit,Religious, and Educational Advisory PracticeGroup. Hutchins and Pelluer join Colliers from their ownindependent brokerage, Church Property Advisors,which specialized in the distinct niche of advising churches,private schools, and nonprofit organizations on commercialfacilities and properties.

Hutchins and Pelluer bring to Colliers 12 years ofspecialized service to the nonprofit sector. Some of theirclients include The City Church, Mars Hill Church, CedarPark Church, Timberlake Church, Crossroads Bible Church, NW Church,The Presbytery of Seattle, Puget Sound BaptistAssociation, Providence Christian School, BearCreek School, Children's Institute for Learning Differences(CHILD), Freedom Church, Downtown Cornerstone Church, EmmanuelBible Church, Grace Seattle, and UnionChurch.

“Colliers is an ideal platform to leverage our 12 years ofservice to nonprofit, religious, and educational clients,” statedHutchins. “We are now able to provide a much broader array ofservices to our clients, including valuation and facilitymanagement as well as servicing assignments outside the Puget Soundregion.” Pelluer added, “For many of the facilities we sell, theHighest and Best Use is something other than achurch or a school. Colliers has a strong team of brokers in eachproperty type, which enables us to advise our clients on allalternative uses, resulting in the highest value for them. I amlooking forward to expanding our service offering to ournot-for-profit clients with this team.”