CORFAC News

Chicago, IL (January 27, 2015) – CORFAC International (www.corfac.com) President Scott Savacool, SIOR, CCIM, today announced that Paris-based BG Carré, which serves all types of commercial properties, occupiers and investors throughout France, has joined CORFAC International as the commercial real estate network’s newest European affiliate.

CORFAC International (Corporate Facility Advisors) is comprised of privately held entrepreneurial firms with expertise in office, industrial and retail real estate leasing and investment sales, multifamily property acquisitions and dispositions, property management and corporate services.

BG Carré specializes in the office markets of the 10 primary French cities, plus high-end retail and shopping centers. The firm also serves occupiers, owners and investors of light industrial and logistics assets, while a unit of the business focuses on Parisian prime-luxury residential and hotel markets.

Approximately 70 percent of the firm’s revenue is brokerage and fee-based services, while valuation services make up 25 percent of revenue and property research 5 percent of revenue.

Bill R. Beauclerk, MRICS (Members of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors), is Joint-Managing Director of BG Carré and the principal point-of-contact with CORFAC. Additional officers of the company include Abraham De Koning, MRICS (Members of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors) and Joint-Managing Director, Georges Du Halgouet, Joint-Managing Director and Guillaume Cailloux, Consultant.

BG Carré was created in 2004 by one ex-partner of Jones Lang LaSalle and three ex-directors of Bourdais/CBRE, as a boutique firm specializing in the areas they enjoyed most: investment agency, asset management, consultancy and valuations. Together the founders have almost 90 years of property experience across several European markets.

BG Carré has been involved in cross-border investment as well as consultancy and purchase reports for clients from Spain, Ireland and the U.K. Clients have included three Irish private funds, a Canadian hotel chain, HNWI & Institutional Investors from Luxembourg, investors from Belgium and Switzerland, as well as valuations and consultancy for clients from the U.S., U.K., the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany.

“We work in the world's second largest office leasing market, the world's fourth largest investment market and in a G8 country that continues to attract huge, inbound investments. We are particularly encouraged by CORFAC’s ability to bridge the gap between France, the U.K. and the U.S. We think there is a great deal of business potential together,” said Bill Beauclerk.

Alistair Subba Row and Charlie Thompson from Farebrother/CORFAC International in London interviewed the BG Carré principals and led the vetting of the firm. CORFAC is an invitation-only network of companies.

BG Carré is located at 139 Boulevard Haussmann, 5th Floor, in Paris, France. More information is available at www.bgcarre.com.

About CORFAC International
In association with global affiliates, Chicago, IL-based CORFAC International offers commercial real estate services with market reach in 48 countries worldwide. Founded in 1989, CORFAC firms completed more than 10,000 lease and sales transactions totaling approximately 400 million square feet of space valued in excess of $7.4 billion in 2014. For more information on the CORFAC network call 224.257.4400 or visit www.corfac.com.