{"id":1004077025,"date":"2013-06-13T08:51:02","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T16:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004077025"},"modified":"2022-12-08T04:22:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T12:22:13","slug":"colliers-expands-in-germany-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/colliers-expands-in-germany-netherlands\/","title":{"rendered":"Colliers Expands in Germany, Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">By Scott Baltic, Contributing Editor<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_100407\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2013\/06\/Chris-McLernon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100407\" data-attachment-id=\"1004077237\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/colliers-expands-in-germany-netherlands\/chris-mclernon\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2013\/06\/Chris-McLernon.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"244,235\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Chris McLernon\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2013\/06\/Chris-McLernon.jpg?w=244\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1004077237\" title=\"Chris McLernon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2013\/06\/Chris-McLernon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-100407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris McLernon, CEO, EMEA for Colliers International<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">Colliers International has acquired controlling interests in Colliers Schon and Lopez Schmitt GmbH (Colliers Frankfurt) and in Trombello Kolbel Immobilienconsulting GmbH (Colliers Dusseldorf), both in Germany, as well as a controlling interest in Urban Properties International Real Estate Management B.V., a leading asset and property management firm in the Netherlands, First Service Corp., Colliers\u2019 parent entity, announced Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The terms of the transactions were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The two German transactions complete the process of consolidating Colliers\u2019 five affiliates in that country, Chris McLernon, CEO of the EMEA for Colliers International, told <em>Commercial Property Executive<\/em>, the affiliates in Munich, Stuttgart and Berlin having been acquired in March.<\/p>\n<p>In each case, per Colliers\u2019 usual practice, he said, the local partners retained minority equity stakes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re acting as a catalyst to bring together a national platform in Germany,\u201d McLernon said, giving Colliers the potential to work for institutional clients and not just local ones.<span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">Germany is one of the strongest areas in Europe for Colliers, he added, and the affiliates there have \u201ctremendous margins and market share,\u201d especially in office leasing and investments.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px;line-height: 19px\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Netherlands acquisition adds Urban Properties International\u2019s capabilities to Colliers\u2019 existing services there, of office and industrial brokerage, corporate solutions, valuation and capital markets.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colliers International has acquired controlling interests in Colliers Schon and Lopez Schmitt GmbHand in Trombello Kolbel Immobilienconsulting GmbH, both in Germany, as well as a controlling interest in Urban Properties International Real Estate Management B.V., a leading asset and property management firm in the Netherlands, First Service Corp., Colliers\u2019 parent entity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":882,"featured_media":1004077237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21783,21742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004077025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investment","category-latest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.0 (Yoast SEO v28.0) - 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