CHARLOTTE—Calkain is beating the expansion drum. The net lease specialist is opening new locations in North and South Carolina.

Patrick Nutt, the firm's managing partner, has secured a North Carolina brokerage license and is servicing developers and investors in the Charlotte, Research Triangle, Asheville, and coastal markets. Chris Koepenick has joined Calkain as an associate director to spearhead the firm's efforts in the South Carolina market.

"We are thrilled with Calkain's new offices and the fact that we have a strong presence in the Carolina's,” Jonathan Hipp, Calkain president and CEO, tells Globest.com. “We are additionally grateful that we're able to attract high caliber colleagues to our firm where proven performers understand the dynamics of the ever-changing net lease environment."