{"id":330363,"date":"2026-07-06T03:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330363\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T03:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T03:14:08","slug":"hilb-group-expands-southeast-footprint-with-florida-commercial-pc-acquisition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330363\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilb Group expands Southeast footprint with Florida commercial P&#038;C acquisition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to OPTIS Partners, the industry recorded 148 agency and brokerage transactions in the first quarter of 2026, down 6% year over year and the lowest first-quarter total since 2016, extending a three-year decline from a peak of 1,108 deals in 2021 to a trailing 12-month pace of roughly 686. Private equity-backed and hybrid buyers, including Carlyle-backed platforms like Hilb Group, continued to account for the large majority of deals, representing 72% of transactions in the first quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to OPTIS Partners, the industry recorded 148 agency and brokerage transactions in the first quarter of 2026,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7032,28,30,29,136466,44486],"class_list":["post-330363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-acquisition","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hilb-group","tag-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}