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Grubb & Ellis Company Overview

GRUBB & ELLIS COMPANY

Grubb & Ellis Company is one of the world’s leading full-service commercial real estate organizations, providing a complete range of transaction, management and consulting services. By leveraging local expertise with our global reach, Grubb & Ellis offers innovative, customized solutions and seamless service to owners, corporate occupants and investors throughout the globe.

COMPANY HISTORY

Grubb & Ellis has a 45-year plus history and is one of the largest publicly traded commercial real estate services firms in the United States. Founded in 1958, as a Northern California, single-office residential advisory services company, today Grubb & Ellis has become a full-line real estate services organization. The company has invested significantly in resources and has made unprecedented changes that have positioned it for long-term growth. Today, historically strong competencies and many new skills have been merged to form the overall structure for our now comprehensive capabilities.

CONTINUUM OF SERVICE

Grubb & Ellis goes beyond traditional transactions to provide a continuum of real estate services that address clients' needs-an integrated approach that is geared to work with the client as part of their management and decision-making team. We can assist clients in analyzing their entire portfolio. We can address financial issues, workflow analysis, location decisions, deal structuring, project/construction management, and property management. We focus on practical solutions for aligning portfolio strategies with business plans. Our approach-and the extent of our involvement-always is driven by our client's goals.

Industry Specialists - Grubb & Ellis provides great value by enhancing its clients' teams with professionals who know their specific industries. Our industry specialists help clients identify trends and business opportunities in today's rapidly changing marketplace. We specialize in health care, financial services, technology, retail, manufacturing and public-private partnerships.

Account-Centric Approach - Using a single point of contact, we deliver an account-centric relationship focused on helping our clients achieve their business objectives. We provide much more than transaction or management services-each professional is a personal liaison to our diverse national and international resources.

Global Accounts Group - Our Global Accounts Group delivers the company's full range of integrated real estate services including transactions, management services, and consulting to major corporate and institutional clients that are national and international in scope. Our clients will benefit from the relationship between Grubb & Ellis' local, national and international service experts and the seamless delivery of our continuum of services to optimize their real estate utility and investment goals.

Corporate Services Group - Our Corporate Services Group offers Grubb & Ellis' global transaction expertise to clients with multiple market locations. The group operates in true partnership with clients, functioning as an extension of corporate real estate departments.

Institutional Services Group - Our Institutional Services Group serves the specialized needs of leading insurance companies, REITs, opportunity funds, and pension funds and their advisors. Our institutional professionals' diverse backgrounds as former investment officers, portfolio managers and acquisitions specialists provide rare market perspective and a thorough understanding of the complexities involved in buying, selling and managing investment real estate.

 

TRANSACTION SERVICES

Grubb & Ellis is one of the largest global commercial real estate brokerage operations and has earned its reputation as a leader in real estate transactions by arranging the sale, purchase or lease of office, industrial, multi housing, retail and hospitality sites, and commercial land.

Our transaction teams work closely with clients to assess the ways in which real estate issues relate to, and can contribute to, an organization’s strategic business objectives. To fulfill each client’s business objectives, we tap the expertise of our specialists who focus specifically on economic issues, property types, and geographic locations. In addition, we maintain an exhaustive database of active properties around the world. Our superior research capabilities support these efforts by providing market surveillance that assures first-hand knowledge of, and insights into, market activities that may affect commercial property both here and abroad.  Our qualified professionals combine this knowledge and real-time market intelligence with smart negotiation skills. The result: Buy, sell and lease opportunities that support corporate and business goals.

Our transaction professional offer expertise in the following areas:

Management Services

Grubb & Ellis Management Services, Inc. (GEMS) provides third party property management, facility management and business services.  Grubb & Ellis and its affiliates currently manage more than 180 million square feet (MSF) of commercial space valued over $17 billion for corporate and institutional clients throughout the United States, Central and South America.  The thousands of properties we manage include multi-building campuses as large as 4 MSF and geographically dispersed portfolios up to 20 MSF.  These properties include a wide variety of functions, from prestigious corporate headquarters and Class A offices to retail, manufacturing, warehousing, and medical facilities.

KNOWLEDGE LEADERSHIP

Grubb & Ellis is renowned for its market intelligence and knowledge leadership. We publish quarterly and annual market reports on forecasts, trends, and capital markets at the local, regional, and national level. We also publish periodic white papers and articles in key industry and business-specific publications. Recent examples include Regional Forecasts, U.S. Market Trends, Metro Trends Quarterly and Capital Markets reports. Grubb & Ellis provides a single point of contact for clients, helping them address real estate issues seamlessly with transaction, consulting, and property, facility, and asset management solutions.

Grubb & Ellis provides a single point of contact for clients, helping them address real estate issues seamlessly with transaction, consulting, and property, facility, and asset management solutions.

SELECTED CLIENT LIST

7-Eleven, Inc.
Kraft Foods
ABB, Inc.
Legg Mason Real Estate Services, Inc.
Aetna
Levi Strauss & Co.
AEW Capital Management, L.P.
Liberty Mutual Insurance Group
APW Electronics Ltd.
Marconi Corporation Plc.
Archon Group, L.P.
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
AT&T Wireless
Microsoft Corporation
Bausch & Lomb
Miller Brewing Company
Burger King Corporation
Morgan Stanley
Capital One Financial Corporation
Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company
CIGNA Investment Management
Nationwide Life Insurance
Citibank Corporate Realty Services
New York University
Cornerstone Real Estate Advisors
Nortel Networks Corporation
Dean Witter Realty, Inc.
Oce-USA Holding, Inc.
Del Monte Foods Company
Pennzoil, Inc.
DuPont Fabros Development
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
Dominion Resources, Inc.
PPG Industries, Inc.
eBay Inc.
Prudential Real Estate Investors
Ernst & Young
Qwest Communications International Inc.
Fremont Investment & Loan
Safeco Property & Casualty Insurance Companies
GE Real Estate
Schering-Plough Corporation
General Motors Corporation
TA Associates
The Hearst Corporation
Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association
Hillman Properties
Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies
Host Marriott
United Stationers Inc.
IBM Corporation
United Technologies Corp.
Intel
Verizon Wireless
JP Morgan Chase
Wachovia Corporation
Kaiser Permanente
Washington Mutual, Inc.
Kojaian Management Corporation
Wells Fargo & Company
Kmart Holding Co.
 

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