Newmark’s succession question is bigger than Barry Gosin

Barry Gosin’s decision to leave Newmark’s CEO post at the end of the year is less a routine succession than a test of whether the brokerage can move beyond a leadership model built around one person. Gosin has been at Newmark for roughly five decades, making his influence difficult to separate from the company itself. He will stick around as chairman through 2029, giving Newmark some continuity, but the CEO transition still creates an unusual problem: the company has to find someone capable of managing a sprawling brokerage while also navigating the personalities that come with it. One internal solution […]

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