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The Online Marketplace's Role in CRE

While the online marketplace is a viable option or platform for marketing and transacting certain assets, there will always be a need for boots on the ground to assist in asset sales, C&W's Eric Paulsen tells GlobeSt.com.

By Carrie Rossenfeld | Updated on October 24, 2017

Eric Paulsen Paulsen: “While no longer at an online firm, I continue to be a believer in the value of transacting in an online marketplace and view it as a viable option/platform for certain assets to be marketed and to transact.”

IRVINE, CA—While the online marketplace is a viable option or platform for marketing and transacting certain assets, there will always be a need for boots on the ground to assist in asset sales, Cushman & Wakefield‘s Eric Paulsen tells GlobeSt.com. As we recently reported, Paulsen has joined the firm as managing principal of the Orange County and Inland Empire offices and is based in Irvine, CA. He was previously executive managing director of Ten-X Commercial.

We spoke with the 30-year real estate veteran about C&W’s strategy in the markets he is overseeing and how he views the role of the online marketplace.

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