Avison Young agrees to acquire Raleigh, NC-based Thomas Linderman Graham Inc.

Mark Rose

TORONTO, CANADA /PRNewswire/ - Mark E. Rose, Chair and CEO of Avison Young, Canada's largest independently-owned commercial real estate services

company, announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Raleigh, NC-based Thomas Linderman Graham Inc., a full-service commercial real estate services company. The transaction is expected to close in two weeks.

The acquisition will further expand Avison Young's market and

business-line coverage in the Southeast U.S. The change in ownership

will add 61 employees to Avison Young's operations (including eight new

Principals), and new offices in Raleigh and Chapel Hill, NC. Terms of

the acquisition were not disclosed.

The two newest American offices will together represent Avison Young's

19th market (Raleigh-Durham) outside of Canada and an additional step

in the firm's ongoing aggressive growth and expansion strategy.

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Sherry Quan,

 National Director of Communications & Media Relations,

Avison Young:

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