Talk:Newmark Group

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I would like to add an Overview section to the article. It would look like this:

Overview

Newmark was founded as a commercial real estate services firm in Manhattan in 1929. In 2000, Newmark embarked upon a national expansion, and in 2006, formed a partnership with London-headquartered Knight Frank, creating Newmark Knight Frank, one of the largest, independent full-service real estate firms with global capabilities.

In October 2011, Newmark Knight Frank became a part of BGC Partners, Inc.[2] (NASDAQ:BGCP),[3] a leading global brokerage company primarily servicing the wholesale financial markets with approximately 220 financial products and offices in over 35 major markets.

In April 2012, Newmark Knight Frank and Grubb & Ellis came together to create Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, a game-changing platform in commercial real estate. Newmark Grubb Knight Frank now has more than 100 offices in North America, 250 million square feet in property and facilities management, and a national appraisal business.

Newmark Grubb Knight Frank is headquartered at 125 Park Avenue in New York City. Newmark Grubb Knight Frank offers a fully integrated platform of services for its clients- whether corporate or institutional, multinational or local- developing real estate strategies that enhance and support their business objectives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sam Rose Gold (talk • contribs) 17:40, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

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Proposed edits to intro
I work for Newmark and want to propose some factual changes and additional sources for this article. I have read Wikipedia’s guidelines around neutrality, reliable sources, etc. and fully intend to abide by them. My goal is to propose changes that are factual and ultimately make this article more high quality and reflective of information from reliable, independent third party sources.

Below is what I propose:

Newmark Group Inc. is a commercial real estate advisory and services firm headquartered in New York, New York. The company operates as Newmark and is listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the symbol "NMRK”.[1] The company’s services include Capital Markets, Global Corporate Services, Industrial and Logistics Services, Landlord Representation, Property Management, Retail Services, Tenant Representation and Valuation & Advisory.[2] According to Real Capital Analytics, Newmark was the 3rd largest investment broker in the Americas in 2020 based on sell-side investment sales activity.[3] In its ‘Top 15 Most Powerful Brokerage Firms of 2021, Commercial Property Executive ranked Newmark 3rd.[4] Newmark has acquired more than 50 companies since 2010.[5] The company, along with its business partners, operates from more than 160 office locations and employs approximately 6,200 professionals worldwide.[6]

[1] Bockmann, Rich (November 1, 2017). “A wide open lane for commercial brokerage IPOs.” The Real Deal. Retrieved on February 9, 2022.

[2] “Services.” Newmark website. Retrieved on February 11, 2022.

[3] “Top Global Investment Brokers 2020.” Real Capital Analytics. March 2021. Retrieved on February 11, 2022.

[4] “2021 Top Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Firms.” Commercial Property Executive. June 3, 2021. Retrieved on February 9, 2022.

[5] “Newmark Drops the Knight Frank.” Real Estate Weekly. October 19, 2020. Retrieved February 14, 2022.

[6] “Offices.” Newmark website. Retrieved February 14, 2022.

Olive0323 (talk) 18:44, 18 February 2022 (UTC)


 * @Olive0323 Cleaning up this out of date request. It appears the requestor lost patience after several weeks and made the edit themselves. I reviewed the article and see no issues (IMO) but the user is cautioned not to make changes in the future.  Please request an edit and let an editor without a COI make them for you.  Cheers. Duke Gilmore (talk) 19:01, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

Lawsuits section
Hi all - Looking at the new lawsuits section by User:Bangabandhu, I wanted to raise a number of issues that might make this section problematic.

First, re: language, a number of details presented as allegations in the news articles are stated as fact in the Wikipedia article. (“While working in the firm, she was suffered repeated sexual advances, which she rebuffed. When she raised the issue to human resources, she was terminated.”) Suggested changes to correct this in brackets: “While working in the firm, she [“alleged suffering” instead of “was suffered”] repeated sexual advances, which she rebuffed. [“She further claimed that when” instead of “when”] she raised the issue to human resources, she was terminated. [24]

Also, regarding the section in general - the lawsuit section is one of just three sections, making up a significant part of the article, and in each lawsuit the main fact reported on in the press is that the lawsuit was filed; no other outcome has been documented in the press as far as I can tell, and each lawsuit relies on just one article from a small outlet. I’m curious if others feel this section is presented with due weight according to Wikipedia’s NPOV guideline? In general, does the mere fact of a lawsuit being filed against a company (with no other developments / conclusions as to the validity of the plaintiff’s claims) mean that that lawsuit belongs on a company’s Wikipedia article? I’m not a Wikipedia expert and as someone who works for Newmark (I have disclosed my affiliation earlier on this talk page), I defer to other Wikipedians so am honestly asking!

But if folks decide that this section should remain, one way it could be improved is by removing the “sexual harassments” sub-header while keeping all three lawsuits directly under the “lawsuits” header. The current structure with the first lawsuit under no subheader and the next two under a “sexual harassments” subheader (which appears in the table of contents) brings a lot of attention to those two lawsuits vis a vis all other parts of the article and does seem to be unbalanced. Olive0323 (talk) 20:21, 21 March 2022 (UTC)