Since his return

"We are not really recruiting people right now without experience," confides the managing director of Texas. "I expect us to be in the top, if not the top, real estate firm in the state. We've had great people, just not enough of them."

Younger's latest power play has pulled Brock Wilson from Chicago-based First Industrial Realty Trust. He starts next Monday as senior vice president after spending the past two years overseeing the REIT's western region.

Younger says he's courting senior brokers with the firm's ability to cross-market 1031 exchanges and tenants-in-common investments for their clients. "No one else has under one umbrella the ability to take an investment and diversify it across the country into 1031 structures," he says.

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