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Cushman & Wakefield: Strategic Hiring
Cushman & Wakefield added Brian Helmken, Erik Heltne, and Addison Carlson to Minneapolis office leasing team
Source: Connect CRE
The leadership read
A hiring build-out like this points to deepening commercial real estate executive bench strength over the coming quarters.
Market context: Backdrop: a 105.8 (Hot) Talent Market Index (down 2.4 on the month) with Oceania activity steady (-0.1pts).
Cushman & Wakefield: 8 signals in the last 90 days — above the Commercial Real Estate median of 1.5 across 8 tracked companies; 0.3% of MitchelLake's Americas signal flow; 8 tracked across 65 days.
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