Rochester, NY – Edward Ginn announced today that Nick Capanna with Ferrara Jerum International in Rochester has joined the Capital Markets Real Estate Network (CMREN; www.cmren.com), an organization dedicated to serving investor clients nationwide in all the commercial real estate industry verticals including office, industrial, retail, multifamily, self-storage and others.

Capital Markets Real Estate Network (CMREN) is organized to support participating member firms towards achieving greater growth, increased revenue, and sustained success through a cooperative framework. In addition to new business generation, the network serves members as an information exchange on market conditions, trends, property pricing, sharing best practices and more.

“The CMRE Network is an opportunity for Ferrara Jerum International (FJI) to extend its network of resources across the country, gain a new level of marketing exposure for our clients’ assets, and access best practices and innovative ideas through exchanges of information with some of the best independent investment professionals in the industry. It will allow us to better compete with the other branded investment sales platforms,” said Douglas Jerum, a Partner in the firm who has known Ed Ginn and others from the network for more than a decade.

Nick Capanna is the Director of Asset Sales with Ferrara Jerum International. Prior to joining FJI, Capanna was a Vice President at First Niagara Bank overseeing branch business banking initiatives and client relationships across many retail bank locations. He has a JD from the University of Buffalo, an MBA from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science from Saint John Fisher.

“Becoming part of a national network of top-level, like-minded investment sales professionals working together to develop and execute opportunities is a significant differentiator for our firm in the Northeast Region and beyond. I’m looking forward to my involvement with the Capital Markets Real Estate Network and for our clients benefiting from our association with the Network,” said Nick Capanna.

Ferrara Jerum International is a premier retail real estate consulting firm specializing in regional, national and international tenant and landlord representation.

“The $2 million to $25 million investment and financing space is highly fractionalize and a competitive marketplace for all the vertical categories we cover. We offer tremendous value to investors, sellers and exchangers to help them achieve their investment goals,” said Ed Ginn.

Ginn is a co-founder of CMREN and also a principal with Equity Retail Brokers in Conshohocken, PA. The Capital Markets Real Estate Network launched in June of this year with Ginn’s firm, three other Pennsylvania commercial real estate companies and one in Los Angeles.

CMRE Network sectors include:

• Retail, including NNN assets and shopping centers
• Multifamily, including apartment buildings and student housing
• Office
• Industrial
• Hotel/Lodging
• Self-storage
• Land and Mixed-use

 Business lines that the CMRE Network supports:

• Investment Sales
• Financing
• Equity Placement
• Financial Advisory Services
• Loan Sales
• Loan Servicing

Additional CMREN members are:

• Equity Retail Brokers (Philadelphia, Pa) — a retail focused brokerage firm; Edward Ginn, Ken McEvoy and Bart Delfiner

• Bennett Williams Commercial (York and Lancaster, PA – full service commercial brokerage, NNN Multi-Tenant Retail Sales specialists); Chad Stine and Brad Rohrbaugh

• The Flynn Company (Philadelphia, PA – full service commercial brokerage and office/industrial specialists); Colin A. Flynn

• Duquesne Commercial Funding (Philadelphia, PA – mortgage brokerage services); Gerard O’Malley and Tim McGinley

• May Realty Advisors (Los Angeles, CA – NNN Multi-Tenant Retail Sales specialists); Matthew May

For more information contact:
Edward G. Ginn
484-417-2201
eginn@cmren.com

Ken McEvoy
484-417-2226
kmcevoy@cmren.com

“Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.”
James Cash Penney

Media contact: Gary Marsh: (415) 999.3793 or gary@marshmarketing.com

Professionals from five Commercial Real Estate Services Firms form New Network to Target Investment Sales, Financing and 1031 Exchanges Nationwide

Conshohocken, PA (June 6, 2016) – Edward Ginn, a principal with Equity Retail Brokers in Conshohocken, PA, announced today that he and a group of like-minded real estate practitioners have formed the Capital Markets Real Estate Network (CMREN; www.cmren.com) to serve investor clients nationwide in all the commercial real estate industry verticals including office, industrial, retail, multifamily, self-storage and others.

Several years in the making and at a time when a handful of national brokerage firms are competing fiercely with one another to dominate the commercial real estate services industry, Ginn and his colleagues are certain that the network will allow them to win business in the institutional and non-institutional sectors of commercial property investing, 1031 exchanges and financing.

The new network is launching with five firms and plans to identify and recruit broker/members in dozens of primary, secondary and tertiary markets nationwide in the next few years.

The founding firms and members are:

• Equity Retail Brokers (Philadelphia, Pa) — a retail focused brokerage firm; Edward Ginn, Ken McEvoy and Bart Delfiner
• Bennett Williams Commercial (York and Lancaster, PA – full service commercial brokerage, NNN Multi-Tenant Retail Sales specialists); Chad Stine and Brad Rohrbaugh
• The Flynn Company (Philadelphia, PA – full service commercial brokerage and office/industrial specialists); Colin A. Flynn
• Duquesne Commercial Funding (Philadelphia, PA – mortgage brokerage services); Gerard O’Malley and Tim McGinley
• May Realty Advisors (Los Angeles, CA – NNN Multi-Tenant Retail Sales specialists); Matthew May

Said Ginn: “I know from years of experience and networking, that networking works if you work at it and with the right group of people. The $2 million to $25 million investment and financing space is highly fractionalize and a competitive marketplace for all the vertical categories we intend to cover. However, after extensive research, analytics and talking to many people in our business, my new partners and I are certain that we can offer tremendous value to investors, sellers and exchangers to help them achieve their investment goals.”

Ginn has been and remains an active participant in the Retail Brokers Network, a national network with over 60 offices dedicated to all the segments of the retail brokerage business. He has previously served as President, Northeast Executive Committee Member, Board of Directors, Treasurer and Investment Sales Council Leader.

Capital Markets Real Estate Network (CMRE) is organized to support participating member firms towards achieving greater growth, increased revenue, and sustained success through a cooperative framework. In addition to new business generation, the network will serve members as an information exchange on market conditions, trends, property pricing, sharing best practices and more.

CMRE Network sectors:

• Retail, including NNN assets and shopping centers
• Multifamily, including apartment buildings and student housing
• Office
• Industrial
• Hotel/Lodging
• Self-storage
• Land and Mixed-use

Business lines that the CMRE Network supports:

• Investment Sales
• Financing
• Equity Placement
• Financial Advisory Services
• Loan Sales
• Loan Servicing

What the founding members are saying about the Capital Markets Real Estate Network:

“Even as we were forming the CMRE Network, referrals were already being generated. Thanks to Ed Ginn we closed a 10-year fixed, non-recourse $12 million loan with Starwood Mortgage in the beginning of June. Additionally, since working with the other firms we have done a much better job serving our NNN and 1031 borrowers.” Gerard O’Malley

“We’re brokers of knowledge – that’s what we market, knowledge, and being part of a national network gives us access to information we would not have as standalone businesses. Our clients benefit because we recommend solutions and they make decisions based on reliable market information.” Matthew May

May is also a long-time (20 years) member in the Retail Brokers Network and contends that the two organizations complement each other and serve separate purposes.

“Our company serves downtown and suburban Philadelphia, Southern New Jersey, Delaware, and Northern Maryland.  Joining the Capital Markets Real Estate Network provides us with a better opportunity to refer business with other regional/independent companies on a national level, which will only help grow our own business.” Colin Flynn

“Bennett Williams Commercial specializes in the Central Pennsylvania area which includes all market points between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.  We believe that in today’s world of investment sales services we have a greater ability to win more business by being part of something larger than ourselves. Our proximity to many major metro markets — New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia, also favors participation in the capital markets network. Our markets have a track record of success with retailers from a local, regional, and national level, which provides a stable asset for any investor.” Chad Stine

For more information contact:
Edward G. Ginn
484-417-2201
eginn@cmren.com

Ken McEvoy
484-417-2226
kmcevoy@cmren.com

“Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.”
James Cash Penney

Media contact: Gary Marsh: (415) 999.3793 or gary@marshmarketing.com