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Avison Young has acquired San Diego-based brokerage firm McKinney Advisory Group. The acquisition is part of Avison's strategy to expand in the Southern California market.

As part of the acquisition, McKinney Advisory Group will be rebranded as Avison Young, and Damian McKinney will become a principal of Avison Young and managing director of the company's San Diego office. A total of 13 new members join the firm.

McKinney Advisory Group was founded in 2010 and ranks among San Diego's most renowned real estate brokerage and property management firms. Since its inception, the company has represented a variety of local, national and international organizations, ranging from entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 firms, while providing customized solutions that optimize the value of real estate assets.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.