NOTE: The following release was sent from Wood Properties, Inc., a Knoxville Chamber member business.
George W. Brown recently joined Wood Properties, Inc.’s commercial brokerage team as an affiliate broker. Mr. Brown, a Maryville native and University of Tennessee graduate, is returning to East Tennessee after spending 5 years in New York City.
In New York, Mr. Brown sold commercial real estate for Massey Knakal Realty Services, the city’s No. 1 building sales firm (by number of transactions). In less than two years with the firm, he closed several deals with an aggregate value exceeding $10 million. Properties sold included development sites, retail properties and warehouse/garage buildings.
Prior to joining Massey Knakal, Mr. Brown was a media relations manager for CB Richard Ellis. Before entering real estate, he was a public relations professional with Dye Van Mol & Lawrence in Nashville and later with Fleishman-Hillard International Communications in New York.
Mr. Brown obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in communications from UT, where he majored in public relations, minored in political science and finished summa cum laude. While at UT, he worked several internships, including those at UT’s Daily Beacon, TVA, former U.S. Sen. Fred Thompson’s Knoxville and Washington D.C. offices, and The Ingram Group.
Mr. Brown lives in Farragut with his wife and son.
Since 1976, Wood Properties has been one of the area’s leading providers of commercial real estate services. Wood Properties provides brokerage services, acting as agent for sellers/landlords and buyers/tenants; management services, of both commercial and multi-family properties; and development services.
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