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Cushman & Wakefield hires Noland as director, research, New England region

According to Cushman & Wakefield (C&W), the firm has hired Donald Noland as director, research, New England region. In this capacity, Noland will be responsible for overseeing, executing and delivering market research and analytics to clients of C&W's New England region's brokerage, corporate occupier and investor services, capital markets and valuation and advisory teams. Prior to his current position at C&W, Noland was the vice president, lease comps research at CoStar Group Inc, where he developed and managed a research platform which will lead to the creation of a new service providing detailed lease transactional data to the U.S. commercial real estate industry. Noland has also been an associate broker with CB Richard Ellis in upstate New York, and has served in both a national research role and as the industrial practice group's operational manager for Cushman & Wakefield. Noland holds a BA in Political Science from Bethany College. He is an active member in numerous real estate industry associations, and a resident of the City of Boston. Mr. Noland is a past recipient of the George E. Lees Award, given by Cushman & Wakefield to the international employee who demonstrates a consistent outstanding performance level, integrity, loyalty, empathy and compassion. "Cushman & Wakefield has long had a reputation as having some of the best original market research in the New England market," said Thomas L. Collins, Cushman & Wakefield's Executive Managing Director and Vice President for the New England Region. "Adding someone with Don Noland's level of expertise to oversee our professional and experienced staff of researchers will help us deliver an even better level of service and market intelligence to our clients."
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