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Sperry Van Ness Grows Chicago Office With Six Hires

CHICAGO-The firm has brought on six new advisors in the first quarter of this year, and is planning further expansion into the suburbs.

By Cari Brokamp | Updated on March 20, 2009

CHICAGO-Sperry Van Ness LLC has expanded its Chicago office in recent months with six hires in the first quarter. The commercial real estate advisory firm’s 6,500-square-foot Chicago office was opened by Scott Maesel a little more than a year ago at 112 S. Sangamon with 12 advisers, and it has since grown to 22 advisers. Maesel says the time is right to grow the office further, as he plans further expansion into the surrounding suburbs.

“The strategy is that we firmly believe right now there is a lot talent out there that seems to be losing jobs or cutting back,” Maesel says. “Sperry Van Ness hasn’t been encumbered by heavy debt or corporate service like other companies and we run leaner. I’m a firm believer that the contrarians, those who go in the opposite direction of people in a market like this, are the ones that are going to survive and thrive.”

Maesel opened the office under a regional developers agreement with Sperry, which allows him to control all future growth. Such expansion could come in the form of acquisitions of other firms, joint ventures or opening of satellite offices. Maesel is one of only three people in the country with whom Sperry has such an agreement.

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