BATON ROUGE – CBRE Group, Inc. has hired a new vice president to oversee the delivery of Valuation and Advisory Services in Baton Rouge. Keith Richard has joined CBRE to serve as the primary contact for local clients in need of valuation and appraisal services.
“The Baton Rouge commercial real estate market has seen nearly a decade a growth and is full of potential for commercial real estate investors,” Bruce Bailey, managing director, Valuation & Advisory Services, CBRE, said. “Keith’s excellent appraisal skills and deep knowledge of the Baton Rouge market will be very beneficial to creating exceptional outcomes for our clients with assets in the Baton Rouge area.”
Richard has more than a decade of commercial real estate appraisal experience, providing real estate appraisals, consultations, rent analyses and market studies throughout Louisiana. Prior to joining CBRE, Richard was a commercial appraiser at Cook, Moore & Associates in Baton Rouge. He graduated from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor’s degree in finance. He is currently working closely with CBRE Vice President Ryan Gay, who is based in New Orleans.
CBRE’s Valuation & Advisory Services practice provides appraisal, property condition, market studies, feasibilities, underwriting due-diligence, environmental, zoning and telecommunication consulting services to a broad base of local, regional and global clients. It has a professional staff of more than 1,700 appraisers, engineers, architects and environmental scientists in more than 300 major metro areas globally. Euromoney has named CBRE the leading global valuation services provider for five consecutive years
CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2015 revenue). The Company has more than 70,000 employees (excluding affiliates), and serves real estate investors and occupiers through more than 400 offices (excluding affiliates) worldwide.
CBRE offers a broad range of integrated services, including facilities, transaction and project management; property management; investment management; appraisal and valuation; property leasing; strategic consulting; property sales; mortgage services and development services.