LOS ANGELES, Sep 21, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --

HFF announced today that the team of Richard Plummer and Andrew Harper has joined the firm's Los Angeles office. The two producers will be a part of HFF's investment sales group and will focus on office and land transactions throughout greater Los Angeles and the West Coast.

Mr. Plummer, who joins HFF as a senior managing director, has more than 30 years of commercial real estate experience and has closed more than $5 billion in institutional property sales. He most recently served as an executive vice president in Grubb & Ellis' Institutional Capital Markets Group. Prior to that, he spent 21 years in Cushman & Wakefield's Capital Markets Group. He is a licensed real estate broker in California and is a member of Urban Land Institute and the University of Wisconsin Real Estate Association. Mr. Plummer graduated with a bachelor's degree in real estate from The University of Wisconsin.

Mr. Harper, who joins HFF as a director, has been involved in the disposition of more than $4 billion of commercial property since 2000. Prior to joining HFF, he was a vice president in the Institutional Capital Markets Group at Grubb & Ellis. Before that, he worked at Cushman & Wakefield, first as an appraiser and later as a director in their Capital Markets Group. He is a licensed California real estate broker and holds a bachelor of arts degree from The University of Texas at Austin.

"Richard and Andrew are highly successful brokers with deep client relationships in the Los Angeles and greater Southern California region and we are excited to have them join the growing HFF West Coast investment sales platform," said Paul Brindley, senior managing director and co-office head for HFF Los Angeles.

Holliday Fenoglio Fowler, LP ("HFF") and HFF Securities LP ("HFFS") are owned by HFF, Inc. (NYSE: HF). HFF operates out of 19 offices nationwide and is a leading provider of commercial real estate and capital markets services to the U.S. commercial real estate industry. HFF together with its affiliate HFFS offer clients a fully integrated national capital markets platform including debt placement, investment sales, advisory services, structured finance, private equity, loan sales, and commercial loan servicing. www.hfflp.com.

SOURCE: HFF

HFF
Paul Brindley, 310-407-2100
Senior Managing Director
pbrindley@hfflp.com
or
Kristen Murphy, 713-852-3500
Associate Director, Marketing
krmurphy@hfflp.com