Sunday, July 27, 2014

HFF expands Miami commercial real estate capital markets team


Maurice Habif
MIAMI, FL – HFF announced it has expanded its Miami capital markets team with the promotion of Maurice Habif and Cyrus Vazifdar to associate directors in its investment sales group in addition to the recent hiring of several real estate analysts.

                Maurice Habif will focus on multi-housing capital markets transactions through the southeastern United States.  He joined HFF in 2011 after completing his MBA at The University of Pennsylvania.  While attending graduate school, he interned at Urdang Securities Management and, prior to that, he was an analyst at Oliver Wyman (formerly Mercer Management Consulting).  Habif holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University.

                Cyrus Vazifdar will focus on hotel and lodging capital markets transactions primarily in the southeastern United States.  Vazifdar has been with HFF since 2011.  Prior to that, he earned his MBA from George Washington University with concentrations in lodging and finance.  He began his career in commercial real estate at Canyon Equity, focusing on the acquisition and development of ultra-luxury hotel and residential product.  Vazifdar is a LEED, Green Associate and received his bachelor’s degree from Villanova University.

Cyrus Vazifdar
                Other recent additions to the Florida team include real estate analysts Tracey Goo, JoJo Won, Wyatt Krapf, Maxx Carney, Simon Banke and Marc Roth. 

Tracey Goo most recently worked as an investment associate at a New York private equity firm and has an MBA from Yale School of Management and a B.S. from the University of Southern California. 

Won, who joins HFF from Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) where he worked as a manager – investment analyst, has a Master of Management in Hospitality from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science from Georgetown University. 

Krapf is a recent graduate of the University of Miami where he earned his master’s degree in Civil Engineering and his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. 

Manny de Zarraga
Carney, who is a graduate of the University of Michigan, has more than five years of commercial real estate experience and joins HFF from The Farbman Group, where he was a market leader.  Banke and Roth are both recent graduates of The University of Miami School of Business.

“HFF has significantly grown its Miami office in the last year, increasing employee totals by 20 percent as a result of the continued growth and success of the Miami office’s capital markets business,” said Manny de Zárraga, an executive managing director and co-head of HFF’s Miami office.

For a complete copy of the company’s news release, please contact:

Olivia Hennessey
Public Relations Coordinator
HFF | 9 Greenway Plaza, Suite 700 | Houston, TX 77046
tel 713.852.3403 | fax 713.527.8725 | www.hfflp.com

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