Commercial Confidential: Cushman & Wakefield recruits CBRE’s Mike Walsh and Peter Court

In a pre-Christmas raid a leading property agency has lured two of Brisbane’s top agents to give them the edge in a key markets sector.

IN one of the biggest Queensland recruitment coups of the year Cushman & Wakefield has poached CBRE’s highly successful Middle Markets team.

We hear Mike Walsh and Peter Court have been appointed joint head of Middle Markets at Cushman & Wakefield while Marg Hutchison has ended her 18-year tenure with CBRE and joined the team as an operations manager.

Rounding it off Frederic LeFanue has joined the trio from Savills as a senior analyst.

Mike Walsh and Peter Court who have joined Cushman & Wakefield.

While the four are on “gardening leave” Cushman & Wakefield managing director of Queensland Glen Wright said their recruitment will help the agency achieve its goal of being in the top tier of the industry.

“We now have the No. 1 sales team in the Middle Markets.” he said.

“We're drawing the best talent and these guys are an example of that.”

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THERE have also been a few other moves in the property industry.

Adam Biggs has joined Your Commercial as a property manager. He was previously a leasing executive with Stockland in Melbourne. Charles Robinson has joined Amart Furniture as its property/leasing manager. He was previously with Retpro and Retail Food Group on the Gold Coast.

Also, Elliott Jones has joined Charter Hall’s Brisbane office as the technical services manager. He was previously at Deloitte Real Estate. Sam Morahan has joined CBRE’s advisory and transaction services team. He was previously with Colliers International

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IN the design and architectural world i2C Architects has joined forces with Brisbane-based TRG Queensland.

Currently in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth, i2C Architects has a has a similar client base in the retail, industrial, mixed-use, urban and build-to-rent sectors with TRG and the merger will allow for full coverage across Australia.

The merged entity will be called 12C Architects and the combined revenue will exceed $16 million a year with more than 100 staff across the four locations.

Rod Rose, Anthony Merlin and Brian Jende at the Howard Smith Wharves.

Founder and managing director of i2C Architects, Anthony Merlin, said the desire to expand the company’s offer and value to clients was the motivator to merge.

“i2C Architects has been privileged enough to work alongside TRG Queensland on a number of projects over the past 18 months, and it became very apparent to my co-founder Brian Jende and myself, that the synergies between our two companies were almost identical, from the client base to our core values,” he said.

“In the past we haven’t been able to service Queensland as much as we would have liked to, and in our vision to become a truly national firm, it was vital that we made a strategic move.”

TRG Queensland managing director Rod Rose will become a third director at i2C Architects.

“From our inception 13 years ago, our focus at TRG Queensland was always on small to medium projects,” he said.

“Joining i2C Architects allows us to offer our current and prospective clients additional services, and we will certainly be able to provide incredible value with our skill set particularly architectural documentation.”