Knakal joining Matthews

Bob was seen leavings Matthews war room after Kyle gave him a bearhug. Everyone at Matthews is hyped about this legend joining the Matthews brand. A lot of people consider this putting Matthews above JLL, possibly CBRE in a couple years thanks to this talent. Newmark had made an offer to Bob, but he turned it down. Something about being worth way more than the recently bought "talent" there and not meshing well with Lavender. 

Any thoughts on this? 

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Imagine people like me from Europe, having absolutely no idea who these ppl are.

Most people in America also don't have any idea who these people are. 

It's all one big NYC broker circle jerk.

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I could tell your either still in college or brand new in the industry. If you think him joining Matthews is a precursor to future success of that company your very misguided. I don’t think you realize how big JLL, CBRE.. etc are. JLL probably doesn’t give a shit. Do you know how many producers are there that produce a fuck load? Matthews is a bunch of wanna be wolf of Wall Street kids. Honestly does not have a good reputation in the industry. Anyhow, hope you see the realities of this business one day.

 

Without knowing Bob at all, but knowing many “Bob-types”, I’m sure he just wants to land somewhere that will let him be. He probably has a phenomenal book of business and just wants a place that will let him do as he pleases until he rides off into the sunset.

Bob will be just fine, and so will JLL.

 

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