GlobeSt.com: Where is your portfolio of assets located?
Rolin: England; Western, Middle and Central Europe; as well as the US, Shanghai and Canada. This newest assignment, which delivers 3.1 million sf, brings our total US portfolio to 6.4 million feet. So it's a major step forward in our US footprint.
GlobeSt.com: How do you handle leasing and management from such a distance?Rolin: Since I formed the company in 1998, we've taken an open-architecture approach, hiring outsourced companies, the best of breed, to handle the assignment for us. On this transaction, we interviewed about 25 companies, property managers, leasing agents, to do different chores. We've picked a team composed of a dozen companies that report to us.
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John Salustri
John Salustri has covered the commercial real estate industry for nearly 25 years. He was the founding editor of GlobeSt.com, and is a four-time recipient of the Excellence in Journalism award from the National Association of Real Estate Editors.
