CoStar Group Announces New York City Winners of 2011 CoStar Power Broker Awards

Originally Published: CoStar.com

CoStar Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSGP), commercial real estate’s leading provider of information and analytic services, recently announced the winners of the 2011 CoStar Power Broker AwardsTM, recognizing the best of the best in commercial real estate brokerage.

The following top commercial real estate firms in New York City have been recognized as 2011 CoStar Power Broker Awards winners:

ABS Partners Real Estate, LLC
Adams & Company Real Estate, LLC
Cassidy Turley
CBRE
Colliers International
Cresa
Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.
Eastdil Secured, LLC
Eastern Consolidated
GFI Realty Services
Grubb & Ellis
HFF
Jones Lang LaSalle
JRT Realty Group, Inc.
Kaufman Leasing Company, LLC
Marcus & Millichap
Massey Knakal Realty Services
Murray Hill Properties, LLC
Newmark Knight Frank
Norman Bobrow & Co., Inc.
Richard Berzine & Company, Ltd.
Robert K. Futterman & Associates, LLC
Rosewood Realty Group
Studley
Winick Realty Group
Winoker Realty Company, Inc.

A complete list of CoStar Power Broker Awards winners for New York City, including all the individual winners in the Top Office Leasing, Top Retail Leasing, Top Industrial Leasing and Top Sales categories, can be found here.

Every year, CoStar tallies the commercial real estate sales and lease transactions that closed during the previous year and presents CoStar Power Broker Awards to the brokerage firms and individual brokers who closed the highest transaction volumes in commercial property sales and leases in each market.

“Each year, CoStar Group looks forward to recognizing the firms and brokers who perform at the industry’s highest level,” said CoStar Group CEO Andrew C. Florance. “Top performers deserve to be recognized for their innovation, prowess and deal-making abilities. We congratulate all the award winners on their impressive professional accomplishments.”

All CoStar Power Broker Awards are based on transaction data in CoStar’s commercial real estate database, which is the largest, independently researched database of commercial real estate property information available online. Information in CoStar’s database is verified and continuously updated by approximately 900 CoStar researchers, comprising the largest commercial real estate research operation of its kind. CoStar’s U.S. database contains more than 3 million commercial properties, and the total U.S. square footage of gross building area tracked and maintained by CoStar exceeds 70 billion square feet.