More hires for Avison-Young

Avison Young, Canada’s largest independently owned commercial real estate services company, has hired Jeff Flemington, Trevor Ellis, Kurt Love, Ben Sykes, David Binns and Stephanie Stevens to join its Mississauga brokerage operation. All six professionals were formerly with DTZ Barnicke in Mississauga.

Flemington joins as senior vice-president and principal. Ellis is vice-president, Industrial Leasing Group; Love is associate vice-president, Office Leasing Group; Sykes and Binns are sales reps for the Industrial Leasing Group; and Stevens is business co-ordinator.

John Eakin and Michael Farrell have joined Avison Young’s Vancouver brokerage operation.

Eakin and Farrell both join Avison Young from DTZ Barnicke in Vancouver and have been working as a team since 2006, focusing exclusively on the Surrey and Langley, B.C. industrial real estate markets. 

Eakin has 13 years of experience in the commercial real estate industry. He started with Royal LePage Commercial Inc. in 1995 as a researcher and moved into brokerage in 1996, focusing on the Surrey and Langley industrial areas. For the past 10 years he was a broker with DTZ Barnicke in Vancouver. 

Farrell’s career in the commercial real estate industry began in 2006 in a brokerage role working with Eakin. Farrell focuses on industrial real estate in Surrey, Langley and the Fraser Valley, working on behalf of local, national and international tenants, landlords, developers and investors.