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LOS ANGELES-The team of industry veterans Richard Plummer and Andrew Harper has joined the Los Angeles office of HFF to focus on office and land transactions throughout greater Los Angeles and the West Coast as part of HFF’s investment sales group. At the same time, HFF announced that Nicholas Kucha has joined the firm as a director in its Portland, OR office and will formally launch the investment sales platform in that office, while John Chun has joined the firm's Orange County office as a director originating debt and structued finance transactions.
Plummer, who joins HFF as a senior managing director, has more than 30 years of commercial real estate experience and has closed more than $5 billion in institutional property sales. He most recently served as an executive vice president in Grubb & Ellis’ Institutional Capital Markets Group. Before that, he spent 21 years in Cushman & Wakefield’s Capital Markets Group.
Harper, who joins HFF as a director, has been involved in the disposition of more than $4 billion of commercial property since 2000. Before joining HFF, he was a vice president in the Institutional Capital Markets Group at Grubb & Ellis. Before that, he worked at Cushman & Wakefield, first as an appraiser and later as a director in its Capital Markets Group.
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Paul Brindley, senior managing director and co-office head for HFF Los Angeles, noted that Plummer and Harper join “a growing HFF West Coast investment sales platform.” Both “are highly successful brokers with deep client relationships in the Los Angeles and greater Southern California,” Brindley added.
Grubb & Ellis, as a matter of policy, does not comment on the departure of employees from the company.
Regarding Kucha, HFF says that the new director in the Portland office will focus on capital markets transactions for industrial, office and retail assets in the Pacific Northwest. Kucha has more than seven years of investment sales experience and joins HFF from Nomad Commercial LLC, where he was a senior partner in the investment brokerage division. Before that, he was a senior associate with Capacity Commercial Group LLC.
Said Lloyd Minten, senior managing director of HFF’s Portland office, “This is a significant milestone for both the Portland office of HFF, which opened in 1996, and the company as a whole, as it marks the first time HFF will have a dedicated investment sales platform in Portland.” Minten added, “We have waited patiently for the right opportunities and the right people to grow our presence in Portland, and Nick’s presence is a perfect complement to our successful debt platform in the Pacific Northwest.”
In HFF's Orange County office, Chun will be responsible for originating debt and structured finance transactions throughout the Western US. Throughout his career, he has originated and/or executed on a broad range of real estate transactions in excess of $600 million including office, industrial, retail, multifamily and land.
Before joining HFF, Chun worked as an investment director for a regional commercial real estate equity fund focused on opportunistic and value-add investments throughout the Western US. He also oversaw $1 billion in services as a senior business analyst at a Fortune 500 company and was involved in over $2.2 billion in equity, debt and strategic advisory transactions as a corporate finance analyst at investment banking firm Lehman Brothers Inc.
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