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What was your greatest professional accomplishment in 2016? - Karen Hurd of SVN

Karen Hurd, SVN International Karen Hurd
SVN International

The continued, rapid expansion and growth of our existing and new offices nationally and globally. Since joining SVN in 2012 we have grown from 140 to 200 offices covering 500 markets.

Some of my recent new office openings are in major and secondary markets across the U.S. in cities like Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Salt Lake City, DC Metro, Greater Cleveland just to name a few. One firm in particular from New York City specializing in institutional business will be announced in early 2017.

They will be creating more deal opportunities in the Institutional Capital Markets for SVN next year.

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