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                                                                    EXHIBIT 10.8


                 CB COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE SERVICES GROUP, INC.
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                           DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
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                           (AS AMENDED AND RESTATED)
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1.   PURPOSE...............................................................    1
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2.   DEFINITIONS...........................................................    1
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3.   ELECTION TO DEFER.....................................................    3
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4.   DEFERRED COMPENSATION ACCOUNTS........................................    4
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5.   INVESTMENT OPTIONS....................................................    5
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6.   VESTING OF ACCOUNTS...................................................    6
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7.   PAYMENT OF ACCOUNTS...................................................    6
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8.   PLAN ADMINISTRATION...................................................    8
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9.   NO FUNDING OBLIGATION.................................................    8
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10.  NONALIENATION OF BENEFITS.............................................    9
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11.  NO LIMITATION OF EMPLOYER RIGHTS......................................    9

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12.  APPLICABLE LAW........................................................    9
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  EXHIBIT A         PARTICIPATING EMPLOYERS

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                 CB COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE SERVICES GROUP, INC.
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                           DEFERRED COMPENSATION PLAN
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                           (AS AMENDED AND RESTATED)


     1.   PURPOSE
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          The purpose of the CB Commercial Real Estate Services Group, Inc.
Deferred Compensation Plan (the "Plan") is to allow a select group of management
or highly compensated employees of CB Commercial Real Estate Services Group,
Inc. and its affiliates that adopt this Plan to defer receipt of Compensation.
The Plan is intended to be an unfunded plan maintained primarily for the purpose
of providing deferred compensation for a select group of management or highly
compensated employees, as described in section 401(a)(1) of the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended ("ERISA").

     2.   DEFINITIONS
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          Whenever referred to in this Plan, the following terms shall have the
meanings set forth below except where the context indicates otherwise.
Capitalized terms used in this Plan that are not defined in this Section 2 are
defined elsewhere in the Plan.

          2.1  "Account" means a Participant's Deferred Compensation Account.
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          2.2  "Beneficiary" means the person or persons who are the
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Participant's beneficiaries pursuant to the Employer's group term life insurance
programs unless otherwise designated by the Participant on a form prescribed by
the Committee.

          2.3  "CAP Plan" means the CB Commercial Real Estate Services Group,
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Inc. Capital Accumulation Plan, as amended from time to time.

          2.4  "CBC Stock Fund Unit" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
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5.2.

          2.5  "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
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          2.6  "Committee" means the Chief Executive Officer of CB Commercial
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Real Estate Services Group, Inc., or a committee consisting of two or more
employees of the Employer selected by the Chief Executive Officer.

          2.7  "Compensation" has the same meaning as it has under the CAP Plan
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without regard to deferrals under this

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Plan, the limitations of Code section 401(a)(17), income earned from the
exercise of stock options, stock appreciation or other rights, car allowances,
reimbursements for moving or other expenses or the imputed value of life
insurance.

          2.8  "Deferral Date" means January 1 of the year in or for which
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deferrals are to commence.

          2.9  "Employee" means a salaried employee of an Employer whose
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Compensation for the Plan Year preceding any Deferral Date equals or exceeds
$100,000, any commissioned employee of an Employer or a key management employee
selected by the Committee.  For purposes of this section, car allowances and
stock option income paid to any Employee shall be included in Compensation
solely for purposes of determining whether the Employee's Compensation equals
$100,000.

          2.10 "Employer" means CB Commercial Real Estate Services Group, Inc.
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("CB Commercial") and any entity affiliated with CB Commercial Real Estate
Services Group, Inc. that, with the consent of the Committee, adopts this Plan.
A list of participating Employers is attached as Exhibit A.

          2.11 "Participant" means any Employee who has made an election to
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defer Compensation under Section 3.1 or for whom the Plan maintains an Account.

          2.12 "Payment Year" means the year selected by the Employee under
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Section 3.4.

          2.13 "Plan Year" means the calendar year.
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          2.14 "Stock" means the Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share, of CB
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Commercial Real Estate Services Group, Inc.  In the event of any change in the
outstanding shares of Stock that occurs by reason of a stock dividend or split,
recapitalization, merger, consolidation, combination, exchange of shares, or
other similar corporate change, the aggregate number of shares of Stock (or CBC
Stock Fund Units) credited to any Participant's Account shall be adjusted
appropriately by the Committee, whose determination shall be final and
conclusive; provided, however, that fractional shares shall be rounded to the
nearest whole share.

          2.15 "Termination of Employment" means any voluntary or involuntary
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termination of employment, except on account of death or Total and Permanent
Disability, but does not include a transfer among the entities which make up the
Employer, a transfer to an entity affiliated with CB Commercial Real Estate
Services Group, Inc. unless such transfer is otherwise determined to be a
Termination of Employment by the Committee in its sole discretion or a change of
status from employee to independent contractor.

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          2.16  "Total and Permanent Disability" has the same meaning given to
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such term or comparable term under the Company's long term disability plan as in
effect from time to time.

         2.17  "Valuation Date" means the last day of each year, or such other
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dates as may be selected by the Committee.

     3.   ELECTION TO DEFER
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          3.1  An Employee may elect to defer receipt of his or her Compensation
for any Plan Year by completing the deferral election form prescribed by the
Committee, specifying a percentage or percentages of Compensation to be
deferred, which shall not exceed one hundred percent, and, at the Employee's
option, the maximum dollar amount of any deferral.  The deferral election form
must be filed with the Committee by no later than fifteen days before the
Deferral Date for the applicable Plan Year (December 31, 1996 in the case of the
1997 Plan Year).  Unless otherwise determined in writing by the Committee, an
Employee who has an outstanding loan from an Employer or is a commissioned
salesperson on transitional draw shall not be eligible to make a deferral
election or his then current election will become ineffective upon achievement
of either status.

          3.2  An election to defer shall be effective on the date the Employee
delivers a completed deferral election form to the Committee; provided, however,
that if an Employee subsequently delivers a properly completed deferral election
form to the Committee no later than fifteen days before the Deferral Date (or
December 31, 1996 in the case of the 1997 Plan Year), the latest dated deferral
election form shall take effect.  The election of any Employee who is a
commissioned salesperson of an Employer shall not become effective for any Plan
Year until such Employee's Compensation for the Plan Year (including for this
purpose only car allowances and stock option income) exceeds $100,000 and shall
only be effective with respect to that portion of the Employee's Compensation
earned thereafter.  After the fifteenth day before the Deferral Date for the
applicable Plan Year (or December 31 in the case of the 1997 Plan Year), the
elections made on the deferral election form for that Plan Year shall be
irrevocable; provided, however, that a Participant may elect, with fifteen days'
written notice, to revoke completely his or her deferrals for the remainder of
the Plan Year as of the first day of any succeeding calendar month.  Any
Participant who so revokes his or her election to defer shall not be eligible to
make an election pursuant to Section 3.1 for the Plan Year succeeding the Plan
Year during which the Participant revoked his or her election but may resume
deferrals in the next successive Plan Year.

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          3.3  A separate election to defer must be made for each successive
Plan Year no later than fifteen days prior to the Deferral Date for that Plan
Year.

          3.4  The Employee shall elect, when completing the deferral election
form, to defer receipt of all of the Compensation deferred for that Plan Year
and all prior Plan Years until one of the following "Payment Years":

               (a)  The calendar year specified by the Employee, which shall be
                    at least the third year after the year in which the election
                    is made; or

               (b)  The calendar year following the Employee's Termination of
                    Employment.

The Employee shall elect, when completing his or her deferral election form, to
receive his or her Account in a single lump sum payment or in a specified number
of annual installment payments not to exceed ten.  If the Employee fails to
elect a form of distribution, his or her Account will be distributed in five
annual installments following Termination of Employment.

          3.5  A Participant may, so long as such Participant is employed by the
Employer, elect to change the Payment Year selected under Section 3.4 subject to
the following:  (i) if the Participant specifies a calendar year, the year
selected must be at least the third year after the year in which the Committee
receives the Participant's election under this Section 3.5; (ii) if the
Participant changes the Payment Year to the calendar year following Termination
of Employment, the Participant's election under this Section 3.5 must be
received by the Committee by the end of the calendar year before the year in
which the Participant's Termination of Employment occurs; and (iii)
notwithstanding any elections that the Participant may make, the Committee shall
have the absolute right in its sole and absolute discretion to have the CBC
Stock Fund Units or dollar amounts credited to a Participant's Account paid in
not more than five annual installments commencing one year after the Payment
Year selected by the Participant.

          3.6  A Participant may, so long as such Participant remains employed
by the Employer, change his or her election from a single lump sum payment to
annual installments over a period not to exceed ten years or from annual
installments to a single lump sum payment.

     4.   DEFERRED COMPENSATION ACCOUNTS
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          4.1  Compensation deferred pursuant to Section 3 shall be credited to
an Account in the name of the Participant

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established for this purpose on the Employer's books or the books of the
Employer who has assumed the obligation to make payments hereunder to the
Participant in accordance with Section 9.  Compensation shall be credited to the
Account as of the first day of the month after the month in which it otherwise
would have been paid, except that amounts that would have been payable in
December shall be credited to the Account as of December 31.

          4.2  The balance credited to each Participant's Account shall be
allocated to one or both of the following investment option(s) offered under the
Plan:

               (a)  CBC Stock Fund; and

               (b)  Interest Index Fund.

The measure of the investment return for any Participant's Account shall be
equal to the proportionate gain (or loss) of the two investment options as
described in Section 5.

     5.   INVESTMENT OPTIONS
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          5.1  Each Participant may direct the Committee on the investment mix
for the balance credited to his or her Account.  Such direction shall be writing
and shall be made on the form prescribed by the Committee no later than 15 days
prior to the last day of any calendar year (December 31 in the case of an
election in 1996).  Any portion of the Participant's Account allocated to the
CBC Stock Fund may not be subsequently allocated to the Interest Index Fund.

          5.2  If any portion of a Participant's Account is allocated to the CBC
Stock Fund during the Plan Year, the Participant's Account shall be credited
with units ("CBC Stock Fund Units") equal to the number of shares of Stock which
could be purchased based on the average closing price of the Stock for the last
five trading days of the month in which the deferred amount would otherwise have
been paid to Participant; provided that in the case of a deferral of
Compensation consisting of a bonus payable in the first 90 days of a year,
shares of Stock shall be credited based on the average closing price of the
Stock for the last five trading days of February of such year.  In the event
dividends are paid or payable during the Plan Year on Stock underlying CBC Stock
Fund Units credited to a Participant's Account, the Participant's Account shall
be credited with the number of whole shares equal to the number of shares which
could be purchased with such dividends based on the average closing price of the
Stock for the five trading days preceding the date the dividend is paid.

          5.3  Any portion of a Participant's Account allocated to the Interest
Index Fund shall be accumulated and credited with interest at the rate payable
by CB Commercial

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Real Estate Services Group, Inc. on its senior secured debt, determined as of
the first day of any calendar quarter and compounded monthly on the last day of
each month based on the Participant's balance in the Interest Index Fund as of
the first day of that month.

          5.4  So long as a Participant remains employed by the Employer, such
Participant may elect to have all or any portion of the value of the Interest
Index Fund credited to such Participant's Account transferred to the CBC Stock
Fund.  Such election shall be effective on January 1 of the year following the
year in which the Participant makes such election under this Section 5.4.  To be
effective, such election must be received by the Committee by December 16 of
such year (December 31 in the case of an election in 1996).  A Participant who
elects to transfer all or any portion of the Interest Index Fund credited to
such Participant's Account to the CBC Stock Fund shall be credited with the
number of CBC Stock Fund Units determined by dividing the dollar amount being
transferred by the average closing price of the Stock for the last five trading
days of the year in which the election is made.

     6.   VESTING OF ACCOUNTS
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          6.1  Amounts credited to a Participant's Account shall be vested and
nonforfeitable (except to the extent of investment losses) at all times.

     7.   PAYMENT OF ACCOUNTS
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          7.1  Amounts credited to a Participant's Account shall be distributed
as described in Sections 3.4 and 3.5, subject to the terms and conditions of
this Section 7.

          7.2  If a Participant has elected to receive his or her Account in a
single lump sum payment, such Account shall be valued as of the last day of the
Plan Year immediately preceding the Payment Year and a single lump sum payment
of cash and/or whole shares of Stock (determined in accordance with Section 7.4)
shall be made during the first quarter of the Payment Year.  The Account shall
not be credited with any additional investment return under Sections 5.2 and 5.3
after the last day of the Plan Year preceding the Payment Year except that any
CBC Stock Fund Units shall reflect appreciation or depreciation in the Stock.

          7.3  If a Participant has elected to receive his or her Account in
installments, the installments of such Account shall be distributed during the
first quarter of the Payment Year and each subsequent year in which installments
are payable.  Each installment payment shall be calculated based on the value of
the Interest Index Fund credited, and the number of CBC Stock Fund Units
allocated, to the Account on

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the last day of the Plan Year immediately preceding the year in which such
installment is payable and distributed in cash and/or in whole shares of Stock.
When a Participant's Account is payable in installments, it will continue to be
credited with dividends, in the case of the CBC Stock Fund, or interest, in the
case of the Interest Index Fund until the applicable Payment Year with respect
to any installment payment.  The amount of the installment payment to be
distributed in any year shall be determined by multiplying the value of the
Account on the last day of the preceding year by a fraction, the numerator of
which is one and the denominator of which is the total number of installments
remaining to be paid (including the installment for which the calculation is
being made).

          7.4  The portion of a Participant's Account consisting of CBC Stock
Fund Units shall be distributed in whole shares of Stock equal to the number of
CBC Stock Fund Units credited to the Participant's Account.  The Interest Index
Fund credited to a Participant's Account shall be distributed in cash.

          7.5  If a Participant dies before all of the amounts credited to his
or her Account have been distributed, the Participant's Beneficiary shall
receive the amounts in the Participant's Account in accordance with such
Participant's election then in effect; provided, however, that the Committee
may, in its sole discretion, distribute the balance credited to the
Participant's Account to the Participant's Beneficiary in such other manner as
the Committee shall determine.

          7.6  If a Participant suffers Total and Permanent Disability before
all of the amounts credited to his or her Account have been distributed, the
Participant shall receive the amounts in his or her Account in accordance with
such Participant's election then in effect; provided, however, that the
Committee may, in its sole discretion, distribute the balance credited to the
Participant's Account to the Participant in such other manner as the Committee
shall determine.

          7.7  Prior to the date on which payments are distributable under the
Plan, distributions of amounts credited to the Participant's Account shall be
permitted only on account of an unforeseeable emergency, and only if the
distribution is necessary in light of immediate and heavy financial needs of the
Participant.  The amount of any hardship distribution shall not exceed the
amount required to meet the need as determined by the Committee.  The
Participant shall submit a written request to the Committee which shall have
sole discretion to establish rules and standards for making hardship
distributions, to determine whether to make a hardship distribution from a
Participant's Account and to determine the amount of such distribution, if any.
The

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Committee's decision shall be final and binding on all interested parties.

     8.   PLAN ADMINISTRATION
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          8.1  This Plan shall be adopted by each Employer and shall be
administered by the Committee.

          8.2  This Plan may be amended in any way or may be terminated, in
whole or in part, at any time, in the discretion of the Committee or the Board
of Directors of CB Commercial Real Estate Services Group, Inc.  Upon termination
of the Plan, the Committee or the Board of Directors may, in its sole
discretion, elect to distribute all Accounts immediately or in accordance with
each Participant's deferral election(s) and the provisions of the Plan as they
existed at the time of the Plan's termination.

          8.3  The Committee shall have the sole authority, in its discretion,
to adopt, amend and rescind such rules and regulations as it deems advisable for
the administration of the Plan, to construe and interpret the Plan, the rules
and regulations, and deferral election forms, and to make all other
determinations deemed necessary or advisable for the administration of the Plan.
All decisions, determinations, and interpretations of the Committee shall be
binding on all persons.  The Committee may delegate its responsibilities as it
sees fit.

     9.   NO FUNDING OBLIGATION
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          No Employer is under any obligation to secure any amount credited to a
Participant's Account by any specific assets of any Employer or any other assets
in which any Employer has an interest.  Neither the Participant nor his or her
estate shall have any rights against any Employer with respect to any portion of
the Account except as a general unsecured creditor.  No Participant has an
interest in his or her Account except to the extent the Participant actually
receives a distribution of cash or Stock.

          The obligation to make payments to any Participant hereunder shall be
that of the Employer that employed such Participant during the period or periods
that such Participant deferred receipt of Compensation unless any other Employer
agrees to assume such obligation and such Participant was informed of such
assumption at the time of his or her election to defer, in which case only the
Employer that agreed to assume such obligation shall have such obligation.

     10.  NONALIENATION OF BENEFITS
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          No benefit under this Plan may be sold, assigned, transferred,
conveyed, hypothecated, encumbered, anticipated,

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or otherwise disposed of, and any attempt to do so shall be void.  No such
benefit, prior to receipt thereof by a Participant, shall be in any manner
subject to the debts, contracts, liabilities, engagements, or torts of such
Participant.

     11.  NO LIMITATION OF EMPLOYER RIGHTS
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          Nothing in this Plan shall be construed to limit in any way the right
of any Employer to terminate an Employee's employment at any time for any
reason; nor shall it be evidence of any agreement or understanding, express or
implied, that any Employer (a) will employ an Employee in any particular
position, (b) will ensure participation in any incentive programs, or (c) will
grant any awards under such programs.

     12.  APPLICABLE LAW
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          This Plan shall be construed and its provisions enforced and
administered in accordance with ERISA and, to the extent not preempted, the laws
of the State of Delaware.


          IN WITNESS WHEREOF, CB Commercial Real Estate Services Group, Inc. has
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caused this Deferred Compensation Plan (as amended and restated) to be duly
executed by the undersigned this _____ day of December, 1996.


                                     CB COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE
                                     SERVICES GROUP, INC.



                                     By _________________________
                                          James J. Didion
                                          Chief Executive Officer

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                                   EXHIBIT A
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                         Participating Employers in the
                 CB Commercial Real Estate Services Group, Inc.
                           Deferred Compensation Plan
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                 CB Commercial Real Estate Services Group, Inc.
                     CB Commercial Real Estate Group, Inc.
                        Westmark Realty Advisors L.L.C.
                             L.J. Melody & Company
                CB Commercial Real Estate Group of Hawaii, Inc.