Chicago & Midwest | November 9, 2018

Avison Young’s Mark Rose: “We’re Building for the Next 50 Years”

Coinciding with Avison Young CEO Mark Rose’s appearance at the Connect Chicago conference Thursday was news that the company had agreed to acquire U.K.-based GVA. The acquisition of this 200-year-old real estate firm “will ramp up Avison Young’s global expansion plans,” Rose said in a video interview conducted at the conference, which appears above.

He recalled that a decade ago, Avison Young was launched “into the teeth of the 2008 recession. Now, we make our biggest acquisition, and arguably the largest acquisition in the U.K., in the face of Brexit. That’s how we like to build, that’s how we like to grow, so in terms of real estate cycles, it really doesn’t matter to us because we’re building for the next 50 years.”

Rose also took the stage at Connect Chicago for a one-on-one interview with Connect Media president Daniel Ceniceros. In that conversation, he discussed the formation and growth of Avison Young, the company’s culture and the global outlook for commercial real estate.

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Paul Bubny serves as Senior Content Director for Connect Commercial Real Estate, a role to which he brings 13-plus years’ experience covering the commercial real estate industry and 30-plus years in business-to-business journalism. In this capacity, he oversees daily operations while also reporting on both local/regional markets and national trends, covering individual transactions across all property types, as well as delving into broader subject matter. He produces 15-20 daily news stories per day and works with the Connect team and clients to develop longer-form content, ranging from Q&As to thought-leadership pieces. Prior to joining Connect, Paul was Managing Editor for both Real Estate Forum and GlobeSt.com at American Lawyer Media, where he oversaw operations at both publications while also producing daily news and feature-length articles. His tenure in B2B publishing stretches back into the print era, and he has served as Editor in Chief on four national trade publications. Since 1999, Paul has volunteered as the newsletter editor of passenger rail advocacy groups (one national, one local).

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