NAI Commercial Sponsors Dr. Peter Linneman at the Toronto Real Estate Forum

NAI Commercial is pleased to sponsor keynote spearker Dr. Peter Linneman at this year's Toronto Real Estate Forum. Peter Linneman, NAI Global's Chief Economist, will appear on the Forum stage on Wednesday morning, December 3rd 2008.

Linneman will be providing his perspective on the outlook for the U.S. economy in 2009 and will share what he foresees in terms of trends, challenges and opportunities for the real estate asset class in the U.S. market going forward.

Dr. Linneman is also Professor of Real Estate, Finance and Public Policy at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, and Principal in Linneman Associates.

Follow Dr. Linneman on NAI Global's Blog here.

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Toronto Real Estate Forum

NAI Global featured in CPN's Most Powerful Brokerage Firms

NAI Global is featured in the Cover Story of the June 2008 issue of Commercial Property News as one of the most powerful brokerage networks worldwide. CPN is one of the industry's leading trade magazines and is read by over 30,000 senior industry executives.

You can read the article here.

NAI Global President & CEO Jeff Finn was also tapped for his perspective on social networking in the same issue. You can see that article here.

NAI Global ranks in Real Estate Forum's top five companies

The Real Estate Forum has ranked the top 100 companies in the brokerage, development, finance and ownership areas of the industry. In the inaugural rankings, NAI Global was named the no. 3 company within the brokerage category.

The companies on the list were ranked using four gernal categories: 2006 revenues, projected revenue for 2007, number of employees and number of offices. This information was provided by the individual firms.

NAI Global has more than 8,000 professionals in 375 offices in 55 countries worldwide and complete over $45 billion in transactions annually.

Ashlar Urban Realty Inc. is the exclusive Southern Ontario member of NAI Global. Our membership in NAI keeps our firm on the leading edge of the industry, while allowing us to maintain our local entrepreneurial ownership.