Several CORFAC International firms convened at Expo Real, Europe’s largest annual commercial real estate industry event, in Munich, Germany, October 5-8. CORFAC’s 2016 President John Homsher, CCIM, Principal of PodolskyICircle CORFAC International in Chicago, attended as the U.S. representative of CORFAC International. Sixteen additional CORFAC members attended from eight European countries and sponsored a booth at the event. This year the conference drew more than 1,700 exhibitors and nearly 38,000 commercial real estate and banking professionals from 74 countries.
CORFAC International is comprised of privately held entrepreneurial firms with expertise in office, industrial and retail brokerage, tenant and landlord representation, investment sales, multifamily, self-storage, acquisitions and dispositions, property management and corporate services. Founded in 1989, CORFAC has 49 offices in the U.S., 5 in Canada and 17 in international markets, including Australia, Colombia, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Romania, Russia, South Korea, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. CORFAC offices completed more than 10,000 lease and sales transactions totaling 620 million square feet of space valued in excess of $8.2 billion in 2018.