Until now, Las Vegas did not have a specialized group catering to the automotive sector. Hussain explains that CBRE's Las Vegas office will now offer a single point of contact and a "one-stop-shop" solution based on a national platform.

CBRE unveiled the national platform last fall. Michael Gerard, a Detroit-based CBRE senior managing director who is coordinating the company's efforts, told GlobeSt.com at the time that the company was creating the new group to provide a unified approach to serving the automotive industry, not just for brokerage transactions but for the many other services that CBRE provides that can provide solutions to customers in the automotive sector.

CBRE historically has served clients across the full spectrum of the automotive sector—manufacturers, suppliers, dealers and investors—according to Gerard. He points out that the goals of auto dealers have shifted in response to the economic downturn, and the new CBRE offering is shifting accordingly.