Real estate brokerage Engel & Völkers Florida expanded by opening an office in Jacksonville Beach led by broker/owner Corey Hasting.
Hasting previously was a leading agent in northeast Florida with brokerage firm Keller Williams.
It expansion into Jacksonville Beach added to the statewide presence of Engel & Völkers, which has South Florida offices in such markets as Delray Beach, Fort Lauderdale, Jupiter, Miami, Palm Beach, Sunny Isles Beach and Wellington.
Jacksonville Beach is a coastal city that has attracted developers including Ormond Beach-based Manoj Bhoola of MSB Hotels IVV, LLC, who has proposed construction of an eight-story, 211-room hotel there.
Engel & Völkers was started in 1977 as a specialty boutique brokerage in Hamburg, Germany, and now has a global network of 10,000 agents in more than 30 countries.– Mike Seemuth