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Investment Sales Executives Mario and Matt Mexia Join NorthMarq in Southern California

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (May 3, 2010) — NorthMarq today announced the addition of investment sales brokers Mario Mexia as managing director and Matt Mexia as director, based in NorthMarq’s Newport Beach office. The father-and-son team joins NorthMarq’s investment sales practice, focusing on industrial property in the southern California, the largest industrial market in the country.

“We are very excited to have Mario and Matt join NorthMarq,” said Mike Ohmes, executive vice president, Transaction and Advisory Services for NorthMarq. “They will be a great addition to our growing investment sales practice around the country.”

With more than 30 years working in commercial real estate, Mario Mexia has an extensive track record of negotiation and representation for corporations and investors in the disposition and acquisition of industrial and commercial properties. He was the founding principal of Commerce CRE, where he was an investment sales professional and a real estate consultant for several well-known global companies.

Prior to Commerce CRE, he was an International Real Estate Portfolio manager at Trammell Crow Company providing transaction management services to Fortune 500 companies. He also spent more than 10 years at Cushman & Wakefield specializing in acquisition and disposition industrial and office properties.

Matt Mexia will represent institutional and entrepreneurial owners and lenders in the acquisition, disposition and strategic planning of investment real estate in Southern California. Most recently, he was a vice president for Commerce CRE where he focused on acquisition and disposition of assets, including distressed properties. He also served as a consultant to the FDIC through Prescient, Inc., advising on distressed bank-owned real estate properties. Matt’s commercial real estate background also includes experience as a real estate analyst at Holliday Fenoglio Fowler (HFF) where he was responsible for underwriting investment sales, debt and equity transactions. Prior to HFF, Matt was also a financial analyst for Trammell Crow Company in Los Angeles and Dallas.

The Mexias join the 12-person NorthMarq office, which has been serving the southern California market for 20 years, and is led by Rob Hervey, senior managing director, and Mike Elmore, managing director.

About NorthMarq
NorthMarq, headquartered in Minneapolis, offers commercial real estate services for investors, developers, corporations and tenants. The company provides mortgage banking and commercial loan servicing in 32 offices coast-to-coast, with an average of $7 billion in annual production volume and services a loan portfolio of nearly $40 billion. It manages more than 60 million sq. ft. of retail, industrial and office assets in 22 markets around the country and handles more than 7,500 leasing, sales and mortgage banking transactions annually. For more information, please visit www.northmarq.com.

Contact:
Martha Nevanen
952.893.7539
martha.nevanen@marquettere.com

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