CORFAC News

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.,  (NOVEMBER 8, 2011) – Voit Real Estate Services has announced the launch of a retrospective campaign in recognition of the company’s 40 years in business. The campaign, which features an informative website timeline and commemorative logo, recounts milestones achieved by Voit throughout the past four decades. “Over the last 40 years, Voit Real Estate Services has maneuvered through multiple cycles, while retaining its entrepreneurial spirit and delivery of positive commercial real estate work on behalf of its clients, its financial partners, and the communities in which we work throughout the Southwestern United States, ” said Robert D. Voit, CEO of Voit Real Estate Services. “We’ve been successful in responding to the demands of an ever-changing marketplace, and we’ve continued to offer integrated real estate solutions across multiple sectors.” Created in 1971 as The Voit Corporation, the firm quickly expanded its business lines to encompass a number of other services, launching a property management division in 1973 to provide an owner’s perspective to the management of its own portfolio, as well as that of its third-party clients. In 1977, Mr. Voit partnered with John DeWeese to open Valley Commercial Contractors. The firm, now run by DeWeese’s son Jeff DeWeese, has built for both Voit and third-party owners, currently totaling $1.3 billion in real estate properties constructed. Ten years later, in 1987, Voit launched a commercial brokerage house with headquarters in Newport Beach – which quickly became one of the top brokerage firms in Orange County and remains so to this day. “We understood that brokers had the pulse of the market, and we focused on developing a brokerage where best practices could be shared, resulting in a collegial atmosphere in which the best professionals can thrive,” said Voit. “Today, our brokerage arm has achieved more than $33 billion in investment, sale and lease transactions.” In 2009, with the real estate and economic upheaval, Mr. Voit, acknowledged the need to handle distressed asset situations and energized the company by creating its asset services platform to meet the needs of banks and other financial institutions, as well as individual owners. The company was renamed “Voit Real Estate Services,” and Voit then added offices in locations where its clients required assistance and navigated a strategic path to ensure that the company’s asset and property management, construction and brokerage services were truly integrated. Today, Voit Real Estate Services manages more than five million square feet of assignments in California, Arizona and Nevada.“I’m proud of both the direction we have determined to take, as well as how much our new direction is meshing with our core capabilities,” Mr. Voit noted. “In a market which requires depth and breadth of resources, we have gone ‘back to the future’ as we return to our roots as a solid, Southwestern United States real estate services company.” Details on each of the milestones achieved by Voit are available at the firm's new retrospective website (http://www.voitco.com/40th-anniversary), which is accessible from the homepage of its website at www.voitco.com.About Voit Real Estate ServicesVoit Real Estate Services is now a 10 office commercial real estate firm that, through its brokerage and asset services professionals working together, provides strategic property solutions tailored to clients’ needs. An affiliate of CORFAC International, Voit combines 40 years of expertise in property management, investment advisory, financial analysis, market research, asset management, tenant advisory, brokerage, construction management and development services, Voit provides clients with forward-looking strategies that create value for their assets and portfolios. Voit is a privately held, debt-free firm that has successfully navigated numerous market cycles since 1971, and currently employs more than 250 people. Voit has owned, developed and managed over 45 million square feet of commercial real estate, participated in $1.35 billion of construction projects and completed over $33 billion in brokerage transaction volume. Further information is available at www.voitco.com.