CBRE has recruited a nine-person multifamily team led by George Tikijian III and Hannah Ott from rival Cushman & Wakefield in Indianapolis.

Tikijian and Ott joined CBRE as vice chairs, and they brought Cameron Benz, who is now a first vice president. In addition, associate Claire Bullard, sales support leads Christine Nealis and Carrie Ballard, sales support coordinator Jennifer Brown and financial analysts Logan Braunecker and Ryan Stockamp also made the move to CBRE with their teammates.

The team will focus on multifamily investment sales in Indiana and Kentucky and plans to expand into adjacent markets, CBRE said. Since 2019, the team has completed more than 200 transactions comprising a total of more than 47,000 apartments and having an aggregate value of over $5.6 billion.

For Tikijian, the move marks his return to CBRE, where he worked from 1984-2005. At Cushman & Wakefield, he served as executive vice chair of multifamily advisory in the Midwest and, before that, owned apartment brokerage Tikijian Associates.

During his 40-year career, he has led or participated in more than 600 multifamily sales valued collectively at more than $9.4 billion. Ott previously served as executive vice chair at Cushman and has more than 22 years of industry experience. Throughout her career, she has led or been involved in more than 400 multifamily sales with an aggregate value of more than $7.7 billion.

Cresa has added David Wetherington, who has more than three decades of commercial real estate experience, from Colliers in Dallas.

Wetherington joined Cresa, a global brokerage that exclusively works with occupiers, as a principal. Wetherington worked at Colliers for more than 12 years. He has been involved in lease and purchase transactions totaling more than 6 million square feet during his 36-year career, including a 220,000-square-foot headquarters for OneSource Virtual, a 120,000-square-foot headquarters relocation for Mortgage Contracting Services and a 90,000-square-foot lease for Microsoft.

The hiring of Wetherington is the latest move by Chicago-based Cresa to grow its Texas operations over the past 24 months. Earlier this year, Cresa Dallas added Mitch Wolff and Joe Siglin, and in September, adviser Chelby Sanders also joined the Dallas office.

Sharon Morrison, managing principal and Cresa's Texas market leader, said in a statement that adding Wetherington is a big move for the brokerage, "especially at a time when site selection decisions are more important than ever."

Newmark has hired experienced brokers Casey Keitchen and Art Waldrop as senior managing directors in the brokerage's Atlanta office. They previously worked at Avison Young.

Keitchen, who has closed more than $2.88 billion worth of transactions representing investors, developers and real estate investment trusts, joined Newmark’s capital markets group. Waldrop, a 25-year industry veteran who has a background in portfolio management, will focus on brokerage services for corporate clients in Atlanta and across the country.

Sean Moynihan, an executive vice president and Southeast market leader of Newmark, said the addition of Keitchen and Waldrop is part of the firm's strategy of expanding in key Southern markets.

Colliers has fortified its industrial valuation and advisory services group with the addition of a Houston-based team led by Clint Bogart.

Previously at CBRE, Bogart joined Colliers as an executive managing director. He will focus on special-use industrial properties and will serve as co-leader of the national industrial valuation practice, Colliers said.

At their new firm, Bogart and his team of Shea Pierce, Charlie Mack, Jason Hochstein, Jake Georgiades and Bryan Strong have joined Mike Gillespie, who has worked at Colliers for nearly 11 years. Bogart will also work closely with Colliers' brokerage division and serve as an adviser to its clients, the firm said. The addition of the Bogart-led team is part of Colliers' plan to expand its industrial group across the country, the brokerage said.

Foundry Commercial has tapped Jane Doggett, who leased buildings for Highwoods Properties for more than two decades, as its Raleigh, North Carolina, market leader.

In her role at Foundry, Doggett is responsible for overseeing the operations of a 40-person Raleigh market team and increasing Foundry's brokerage and development business throughout the Triangle region, the company said.

While at Highwoods, Doggett oversaw the Raleigh-based real estate investment trust's portfolio of Class A office space that grew to over 2 million square feet. The Raleigh native most recently served as senior director of leasing for Longfellow Real Estate Partners, a large private life science developer. There, she oversaw the firm’s portfolio of 4 million square feet in downtown Durham, North Carolina, and the Research Triangle Park area.

Kidder Mathews has promoted Josh Luchs, who has more than 15 years of industry experience, to managing director of the brokerage's San Fernando Valley office in Sherman Oaks, California.

Before joining Kidder Mathews as an executive vice president last year, Luchs served as a senior vice president with CBRE in Beverly Hills from 2018-2022. He worked for Marcus & Millichap prior to that. Over the course of his career, the multifamily real estate specialist has closed more than 200 transactions, including deals with aggregate volume of more than $500 million.

Kidder Mathews opened its San Fernando Valley office at 15260 Ventura Blvd. in March as part of the brokerage's expansion in Greater Los Angeles.