• Creates the CFO Forum in partnership with the UC San Diego Rady School of Management
• Honored with a “Best Places to Work Award” by the San Diego Business Journal

• Ranks as the number one Commercial Real Estate Brokerage firm with the highest total dollar value and number of transactions completed in 2008 by the San Diego Business Journal and the San Diego Daily Transcript
• President & CEO, John Frager was selected as a “Most Admired CEO” by the San Diego Business Journal and was honored with the only “Exemplary Award”
• Nominated for the Society for Human Resource Management’s award for “Workplace Excellence” for the third year in a row

• Forms two new service lines - Debt Placement and Financial Advisory Services - with key recruits from competitors
• Ranks number one in the total number of transactions (Source: San Diego Business Journal's 2007 Book of Lists)
• Ranks among "San Diego's Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies" by the San Diego Business Journal
• Hosts over 30 clients and their spouses to a Client Appreciation Trip in Napa Valley, CA
• Grubb & Ellis merges with NNN Realty Advisors, Inc.
• Forms the Capital Markets Group with key recruites from competitors to expand services
• Acquires new CFO / COO, Brent Rivard
• Downtown office relocates to a nearby, newly constructed building near PETCO Park
• Acquires El Cajon commercial real estate brokerage company, East County Properties, expanding our East County presence in San Diego County
• Forms a strategic partnership with Temecula-based, WestMar Commercial Brokerage, Inc., now operating as Grubb & Ellis|WestMar in South Riverside County

• Ranks number one (for the third year in a row) in the total number of transactions (Source: San Diego Business Journal’s 2006 Book of Lists)
• Ranks number 59 among San Diego’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies by the San Diego Business Journal
• Celebrates 20 years in business (formed October 1986 by 17 entrepreneurial brokers)
• Grew from 170 to 192 Professionals
• Implements its “Push to Excellence” Program for positioning the company has having the best trained professionals in the industry
• Carlsbad office relocates to a nearby, newly constructed, Class A office building, increasing office square feet by 50%
• Hosts over 30 clients and their spouses to a Client Appreciation Ski Trip in Deer Valley, UT

• Ranks number one in the total number of transactions (Source: San Diego Business Journal’s 2005 Book of Lists)
• Ranks among "San Diego’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies" by the San Diego Business Journal
• 24% Increase in Revenue
• Grows from 126 to 170 Professionals
• Hires a new Vice President of Client and Research Services
• Relocates and expands corporate headquarters, increasing office square feet by 135%
• Expands our market share in Southern California with the opening of a new office in Temecula (Riverside County) bringing the total number of BRE-owned offices to five
• Completes the Buy-Sell Agreement

• Ranks number one in the number of transactions (Source: San Diego Business Journal’s 2004 Book of Lists)
• BRE Affiliates with Grubb & Ellis Company to form Grubb & Ellis|BRE Commercial, elevating brand recognition
• Revenues surpass $30 million
• Launches new web-based General Ledger and Property Database Systems
• Strengthens client relationships by funneling investments into high-class client appreciation events
• Opens an office in Otay Mesa, CA; strengthening our market share in Southbay

• Acquires A.W. Arendsee Real Estate in Downtown San Diego, adding a third BRE office
• Plants the “BRE flag” in Phoenix by investing in one of the top brokerage operations previously owned by Grubb & Ellis, now operating as Grubb & Ellis|BRE Commercial, LLC—a broker-owned enterprise
• Establishes CFO position with Tatum Partners, Inc.
• Establishes Director of Marketing/Business Development Department

• John D. Frager joins BRE as the new President & CEO
• Recruits 15 new brokers from competing firms
• Office Division becomes the largest Office Specialty Group in San Diego County
• Corporate headquarters expands
• Expands brokerage services to include Financial Analysis
• Forms Creative Services Department to improve desktop and marketing support
• Hires new Market Research Director and doubles the staff count in Research

2001:

• Expands brokerage services to include Asset Management

2000:

• Revenues surpass $20 million

1998/1999:

• BRE enjoys strong growth from the highly active late-80s real estate market

1997:

• Company operates under new name: BRE Commercial

1996:

• Establishes reputation as the most dominate brokerage firm in North County

1995:

• Company joins NAI, one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive association of commercial real estate service providers

1994:

• Ted Phoenix joins the company as the new President

1993:

• New North County brokers become established and start hitting high production

1992:

• Large number of North County brokers are recruited
• Marc Doyle appointed as Senior Vice President and Managing Officer of the Carlsbad office

1991:

• North County presence established with the opening of an office in Carlsbad, CA
• James Stenderup is appointed President

1990:

• With financial health (debt-free), the firm weathers the start of the recession

1989:

• All loans are paid off, and the firm remains debt-free from here on
• John Rife is appointed President

1988:

• The firm has now doubled its number of agents from when it was founded

1987:

• The firm’s bank hosts a dinner honoring our one-year anniversary, a very important milestone for a start-up

• Business Real Estate Brokerage Company, Inc. is founded in San Diego by a group of 17 entrepreneurial brokers
• Rick Sanborn is appointed President