CBRE Takes No. 1 Spot in SoCal’s Top Brokerage Houses

LOS ANGELES-Deal flow has definitely picked up in 2011, and those who are right in the middle of it are the brokers. Now more than ever, buyers and sellers need to work with top brokers to get those deals done. This is especially true in a region as vast and varied as Southern California, with its huge inventory of buildings in every property type, from downtown high-rises to massive industrial buildings near the region’s ports and in the Inland Empire, along with trophy retail centers, luxury hotel resorts and apartments for every kind of investor.

The editors of Real Estate Forum recently presented its top brokerage houses for Southern California feature in the December issue by collecting deal information from leasing and investment brokerage houses across Southern California – an area defined as Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties – to come up with a roster of the most active companies. This year’s list featured the top 15 landlord – and tenant-representation companies, ranked by the total square footage of leases closed, followed by the top 15 investment brokerage firms, ranked by total dollar volume of sales completed.