A 40-year veteran of the business, Von Ancken, based in NGKF’s New York office, notes that he is gratified to be part of a dynamic, growing global firm. “We efficiently and effectively leverage the prodigious data available to us because we are not just observers of the market. We are in the market, developing, providing capital, negotiating deals and resolving disputes,” he says.

Chacon, who is based in New York City, has been named COO of Landauer. In this capacity, he will facilitate the integration and growth of the revitalized Landauer brand by coordinating its activities and business pursuits with the larger NGKF and BGC operation. “The addition of Landauer Valuation & Advisory is another example of our pursuit to develop a full-service real estate platform for our valued clients,”he says. “By providing best practices and collaboratively optimizing resources across practice groups and service lines, we are poised to provide the highest level of integrated real estate services in the global marketplace today.”

Sanders, also based in New York, will head business development and institutional client relations for Landauer. He has more than 25 years of experience valuing, providing specialty consulting services and expert witness testimony for all types of complex institutional real estate assets nationwide.

In March, the US Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved the sale of BGC Partners Inc. to acquire substantially all the assets of Grubb & Ellis. BGC, a global brokerage firm, recently acquired Newmark & Co. Real Estate Inc., which operates as Newmark Knight Frank in New York City and Knight Frank in London. BGC gained control of Newmark’s US commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firm, plus a controlling interest in its affiliated companies, encompassing 425 brokers.

[Kuhn will be speaking at RealShare NY on Oct. 9. Be there!]