Prominent Investment Sales Team Joins HFF New Jersey

							Prominent Investment Sales Team Joins HFF New
Jersey
March 17, 2010 07:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time  

FLORHAM PARK, N.J.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--HFF (Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, L.P.) announced
today that it has hired the investment sales team of Jose Cruz and Kevin O’Hearn. Cruz and O’Hearn have more
than 32 years of commercial real estate experience and join HFF from Cushman & Wakefield’s (C&W) New
Jersey investment sales group.

Jose Cruz, who was an executive director of C&W’s investment sales group, will join HFF as a senior managing
director. Since 1997, Cruz has been involved in more than $13 billion of office, industrial, retail, multi-housing and
land sales. Notable sales transactions include: the $135 million, 1.3 million-square-foot Starwood retail portfolio, the
$115 million Rockpoint Allegiance Office Portfolio and the $120 million sale of Mariner’s Waterfront in Edgewater.
Prior to joining the investment sales group, Cruz was the northeast area manager for the Research Services
Department within C&W and prior to that worked as a real estate analyst with PaineWebber, UBS, Inc. Cruz has a
bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University, a Master of Business Administration from Fordham and a Master of
Science in Real Estate from Columbia University.

Kevin O’Hearn will join HFF as a director. He has more than 19 years of experience and was the director of the
Capital Markets Group and Client Solutions Group at C&W. During his career, he has been involved in the sale of
nearly 300 properties consisting of 85 million square feet. Prior to C&W, he was a member of Insignia/ESG’s
Capital Advisors Group. O’Hearn graduated from James Madison University with a Bachelor of Business
Administration, and from Seton Hall with a Masters Degree in Financial Planning.

“Adding Jose and Kevin to HFF’s team solidifies our position as the premier commercial real estate intermediary in
this market,” said Jon Mikula senior managing director in HFF’s New Jersey office.

“The highly regarded team of Cruz and O’Hearn bring a wealth of transactional experience and join our well
established existing Tri-State investment sales platform,” added Tom Didio, senior managing director in HFF’s New
Jersey office.

HFF (NYSE: HF) operates out of 17 offices nationwide and is a leading provider of commercial real estate and
capital markets services to the U.S. commercial real estate industry. HFF offers clients a fully integrated national
capital markets platform including debt placement, investment sales, advisory services, structured finance, private
equity, loan sales and commercial loan servicing. www.hfflp.com.

Contacts
HFF Senior Managing Director
JON MIKULA, (973) 549-2000
jmikula@hfflp.com
or
HFF Associate Director, Marketing
KRISTEN MURPHY, (713) 852-3500
krmurphy@hfflp.com

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