Commercial Nashville Real Estate Services LLC is C&W's newest partner and will cover Middle and East Tennessee with a staff of 15. McWilliams is part of the locally based Mission Property Co. that teamed with Fidelity Real Estate Group of Nashville to create Commercial Nashville.

Also having long-standing networking ties to C&W are former Mission professionals Terry W. Smith, Brent G. Basham, William R. Lyell and Brittany T. Lorenzi. They are joined by Fidelity's Chris G. Smith, Richard Leach and Cate Brumley.

"Nashville's economy and real estate market generally mirror the national economy," McWilliams tells GlobeSt.com. "The Nashville market is still soft but appears to have bottomed." He says the residential market "continues to be robust," as it is in several metro markets.