Martin Drummer, 50, is to head up the newly created Office Agency division at Apleona GVA Real Estate Advisors in Germany. He will be based at the company's Frankfurt location. Through this division, the real estate services provider is expanding its offering of transaction-related services for owners and investors in the German market.

Martin Drummer has many years of management experience in international real estate consultancies. Most recently, he was Equity Partner and Head of Office Agency Germany at Cushman & Wakefield (2013–2016). Before that, he was CEO Germany with responsibility for business in Germany at CB Richard Ellis (2002–2011), and as Managing Director and National Director Germany at JLL, he handled exclusive mandates for leasing large office buildings in Frankfurt's city centre, such as Taunusanlage 11, Trianon, Die Welle, Japan Center, Kastor & Pollux and Skylight Frankfurt, among others (1991–2001).

Michael Hintze, member of Executive Management at Apleona GVA Real Estate Advisors and Head of Transactions & Capital Markets: "As a result of his many years of involvement in leasing, Martin Drummer has excellent network connections in Frankfurt's office market. In addition, he has a lot of experience in building and positioning new teams and structures. We are delighted to have won him as Head of the Office Agency division to perfectly complement our capital markets services."

Apleona GVA Real Estate Advisors provides advisory, intermediary and management services for leases as well as property sales and purchases in Germany and 25 countries around the world. These comprise advice on strategic, financing and structuring issues, benchmark exercises and market forecasts as well as leasing and marketing concepts, lease negotiations and the management of external service contractors and agents.