CHARLOTTE-Avison Young is on the hunt for talent—and finding plenty of it. The Canadian commercial real estate firm shows no signs of slowing its aggressive recruiting and expansion freight train in the U.S.
Since August, the firm has acquired a Las Vegas commercial property management firm, added a principal and hired a valuation expert New York City, acquired a Los Angeles commercial real estate firm, wooed 30 members from Flagler to open a Florida office, acquired a New Jersey-based project management firm, and just last week, acquired a Raleigh-based firm. And that's just since August.
“From the beginning, we have stated that our growth would be strategic and a mixture of organic hiring and company acquisitions,” Mark Rose, CEO of Avison Young, tells GlobeSt.com. “We are executing to plan and exceeding our own projections.”
How is Avison attracting some of the industry’s top talent to its ranks? As Young explains it, the plan is to communicate the company’s client-service model—led by principals who own and operate the company—to attract the best and brightest talent seeking an alternative to public companies that don’t offer a say or a stake in the company’s success.
That strategy is working. Over the past three and a half years, Avison Young has grown from 11 to 40 offices in 33 markets and from 300 to more than 1,100 real estate professionals across Canada and the U.S.
“We are opening in the markets with the greatest future-growth prospects, the largest inventory of real estate and the most corporate headquarters,” Young says. “We will use our significant position in Raleigh to move into Charlotte in the near future and will be making many more announcements in the near future and throughout 2013.”
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