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Butler and St. John re-join CBRE/New England as executive vice presidents and partners

According to CBRE/New England, a joint venture company with CBRE. Inc., Simon Butler and Biria St. John have re-joined the company as executive vice presidents and partners to lead the multi-housing group in New England. Butler and St. John are 18-year veterans of the business exclusively specializing in multi-housing investment sales and will join forces with Bill Moylan and Chris Angelone, who lead the CBRE/New England capital markets. The addition of Butler and St. John further solidifies CBRE/NE as the leading investments sales team in the Northeast. Butler and St. John were recently executive directors with Cushman & Wakefield, Inc.'s capital markets group. Prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield, Inc. in 2006, they were both with CBRE/New England as members of the investment properties multi-housing group. Both Butler and St. John have demonstrated track records consistently placing among the top producers in their field. Since 2000, they have sold and arranged joint-venture transactions totaling more than $6.4 billion in gross consideration. With an aggregate sales volume of over 50,000 units of housing, their experience includes a broad spectrum of multifamily asset types including market rate housing, affordable housing (LIHTC and Section 8) and land for the development of apartments and for-sale housing. Mr. Butler resides in Southborough with his wife Stephanie and two boys Jack and Reed. Mr. St. John resides in Boxford with his wife Elaina and three children, William, Nolan and Caroline. "Biria and I are thrilled to be re-joining CBRE/New England," stated Simon Butler. "The experience and depth of our combined team will provide an unsurpassed level of service and ingenuity to our current and future clients."
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