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Prominent Investment Sales Team Joins HFF New Jersey

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.

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