Private Client Group  
The CB Richard Ellis Private Client Group exists for one reason: to help private investors achieve maximum value in the purchase and sale of their assets. 

About PCG
CBRE’s Private Client Group provides unparalleled services to private real estate investors’ highly specialized investment requirements.  With over 65 teams specializing in and dedicated to more than 40 markets across the United States, the Private Client Group represents private investors in marketing and trading assets uniquely suited to the private capital arena.  The group offers:

• Acquisition and disposition services
• Asset review and financial analysis
• Investment strategy development and due diligence support

The Private Client Group’s industry distinction is further underscored by a nationally populated, proprietary, web-based investor database that profiles an ever changing and growing set of investors, numbering more than 100,000 and including 1031 exchange investors.  When paired with speed to market via standardized distribution to thousands of qualified investors, the Private Client Group produces maximum pricing through enhanced buyer demand.

As part of CBRE Capital Markets, the Private Client Group offers access to finance options provided by our Debt and Equity Finance professionals, and puts the power of CBRE’s comprehensive real estate services platform behind every transaction.

In Columbus, Scott Behrmann, Ed Carr, Nick Comer, David Hartsook, Edmond Joseph, and Jason Sauer make up the CB Richard Ellis Columbus Private Client Group and offer extensive experience with industrial, office, retail, land, multi-family, self storage and investment properties.  The team has over 200 years of combined experience in the commercial real estate industry, including over 700 transactions at a total consideration well over $4.8 billion.

The Private Client Group (PCG) represents buyers in their search and analysis of their operating locations, sellers in their disposition and repositioning of real estate assets, investors in their search for 1031 exchanges, portfolio investments and fund investments.  The PCG national platform proves to be a powerful tool that property owners and investors are requesting.

The Columbus PCG combined experience includes:

• Over 200 years combined brokerage/asset service experience
• In excess of 690 commercial real estate transactions
• Nearly $5.0 billion in total transaction value
• Individual Member of the Society for Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR)
• Individual Members of Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) 
• Member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC)