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At FirstService Williams, we provide a full spectrum of real estate services customized to each of our client's needs.

For more than 80 years, Williams Real Estate (dba GVA Williams) has been successfully serving the commercial real estate needs of the New York metropolitan area. The firm is recognized for its ability to formulate unique strategies that enhance value, contain cost, manage margins and minimize risk, and it recently fortified its position as an innovative, reliable service provider by teaming with the fourth largest international real estate services firm, FirstService Corporation. As a publicly traded Canadian-based firm, FirstService Corporation (NASDAQ:FSRV; TSX:FSV) is a diversified global real estate services company with approximately $2 billion in annual revenues, employing more than 17,000 employees worldwide. GVA Williams has been renamed FirstService Williams.

FirstService Williams will strengthen its stature and market position in the New York region with multinational clients demanding seamless execution of their global real estate needs. The firm will also benefit from a broader range of real estate advisory services which will allow it to continue to help clients meet rapidly changing real estate requirements whenever and wherever they arise.

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FirstService Williams Arranges 11,300-SF Lease at 4 Woodhollow Road

5/26/2009

The New Jersey office of FirstService Williams, the world’s fourth largest commercial real estate services firm, represented the landlord, Ivy Realty, on a six-year, 11,300-square-foot lease at 4 Woodhollow Road in Parsippany. Residential Home Funding Corp., a full service mortgage banker, will occupy the space in July. The new lease brings the building’s occupancy to 94 percent.

FirstService Williams Negotiates 135,000 Square Feet of New Leases at Woodbridge Corporate Plaza

5/11/2009

The New Jersey office of FirstService Williams, the world’s fourth largest commercial real estate services firm, recently completed 135,000 square feet of leases at Woodbridge Corporate Plaza, a six-building office campus in Iselin, N.J.

Has the New Jersey Commercial Real Estate Maket Finally Hit Bottom?

4/22/2009

PARSIPPANY, N.J. (April 6, 2009) —Although the New Jersey commercial real estate market showed signs in the first quarter of 2009 of being at or near bottom, a large inventory of shadow space has the potential to hit the market later this year, which would further increase availability rates and decrease asking rents, according to data released by FirstService Williams, formerly GVA Williams, in its first quarter 2009 market report. The overall New Jersey office availability rate increased only slightly year-over-year, while asking rents were essentially flat during that time.