Merging of Minds — Combination of C-III Realty Services and NAI Global
During the past week, billionaire commercial real estate investor Andrew L. Farkas has formally announced the merger of C-III Realty Services and NAI Global. The companies have been informally affiliated since 2012. This combination does not involve C-III Asset Management, another big section of C-III Capital Markets, which will remain a separate entity.
The C-III Realty subsidiary will be renamed NAI Global Capital Markets Group and will focus on providing support for NAI Global. NAI will absorb C-III Realty’s 25 capital markets brokers and other experts located at the main offices in New York, Dallas and Nashville. C-III Realty has the capability to conduct loan, debt, equity, industrial, hotel, retail and office business all over the world. This will help NAI Global achieve their goal of increasing visibility as it plans to grow in the U.S. and abroad. This merger puts the two companies under one name allowing for seamless delivery of all the services they individually provided.
In the last 5 years, NAI Global has completed more than 2,000 investment deals totalling $16 Billion. Included in this calculation is $6 billion worth of sales from C-III Realty Services. Jay Olshonsky, the president of NAI Global, believes that this merger will increase sales and provide a huge brand endorsement for current membership firms which can now reap the benefits of a world-class investing firm.
Andrew Farkas, the founder of C-III Capital Markets, was the main broker behind this deal. Farkas was also the Founder of Insignia Financial Group and sits on the board of NAI Global. He has years of real estate experience and is constantly making deals to expand his influence and disseminate his knowledge.