Colliers Wins Battle for Top Broker

Reza Ghobadi

LOS ANGELES—Colliers International has hired Reza Ghobadi, a veteran broker with more than $750 million in transactions, as SVP. In this new role, Ghobadi will lead and expand the firm’s multifamily and mixed-use platforms in the San Fernando Valley and Tri-Cities markets. Colliers tapped Ghobadi for the position after a recruitment battle with other firms, which gave Ghobadi prime choice of where he landed.

“Several firms made offers, but, after several lengthy discussions with Hans Mumper, who heads the company here, and at the urging of several others who have worked here for years, it started to become clear Colliers had the resources that I wanted. The firm has put in place the right tools for their brokers to grow well into the future,” Ghobadi tells GlobeSt.com. “This is nothing static in this company and they are embracing the increasingly global nature of the business. It has the international reach and I like that. That, along with the corporate culture and the amount of time so many senior brokers here have been with the company just so impressed me. I mean, in every single office I’ve visited in the L.A. Basin, a majority of the brokers have been with the company 10, 20, 30 years and some even more. It’s just so impressive when you see that.”