PHOENIX—CBRE has hired first vice presidents Brian F. Raczynski and Tim Watters, two tenured, well-respected commercial real estate professionals, to join the firm's office services group in Phoenix. They will partner on a team that will deliver integrated, strategic landlord advisory services including asset management and the acquisition, disposition and leasing of office space in the Phoenix metro market.

“Brian and Tim have an established track record and a solid reputation in the industry, which complements our market-leading lineup of office services brokerage professionals,” says Craig Henig, CBRE's senior managing director and Arizona market leader. “Their combined talent and market knowledge add value and strengthen our ability to serve the complex real estate requirements of office property owners and operators.”

Raczynski also returns to CBRE after seven years with Colliers International, where he was also a senior member of the top producing landlord advisory group. Over the course of his 20-year commercial real estate career, Raczynski has leased over 5.2 million square feet of office space. His efforts have increased his clients' gross revenues by over $320 million to date. He has extensive experience with asset management and leasing for some of the country's most active pension and endowment funds; he also has significant experience negotiating contracts with public sector entities like the DEA, FBI and Veterans Affairs, among others. In 1999 he was named CBRE's Rookie of the Year in Phoenix.