Kidder Mathews Realigning with GVA, Expanding to Portland

SEATTLE-After a brief stint under the Insignia banner, Kidder Mathews is realigning itself with GVA, a Chicago-based international real estate services firm. The company will begin doing business as GVA Kidder Mathews on July 14.

One of the Puget Sound’s oldest, largest and most productive commercial real estate services firms, Kidder Mathews dropped Oncor International and affiliated with Insignia’s Strategic Services Provider Program in February 2002. A year later, news of Insignia’s pending acquisition by CB Richard Ellis sent Kidder Mathews looking for a new affiliation for its 87 brokers in four offices in Western Washington.

Kidder Mathews is headed by president and CEO Jeff Lyon, a 30-year veteran of the Puget Sound real estate market with the CCIM and SIOR designations. “The strong East Coast and European presence of the GVA brand, particularly in the New York and London markets, was a key factor in choosing GVA,” says Lyon, who will be appointed to the GVA Board of Managers.