Five for Friday this week turns its sights on Bob Lovelace, CCIM, MAI, Senior Advisor at Sperry Van Ness Florida, at the New Smyrna Beach, FL location.
1. What is your geographic market and product specialty?
I have specialized in East Central Florida commercial real estate for 30 years with a particular focus on the Interstate 4 corridor between Orlando and Daytona Beach. I have worked with a broad variety of property classes and client types. Over the past five years, I have worked primarily with distressed assets and lender REO including large land tracts, office, and retail properties.
2. What’s your latest best practice tip that you can share?
Jerry Anderson, CCIM, recently noted that SVN Advisors’ access to Real Capital Analytics data is one of our organization’s most powerful tools to identify opportunities. I was guilty of overlooking it.
3. What’s been the biggest change over on how you run your business in the past decade?
Ten years ago I set a goal to transition my full-time appraisal practice to one of a full- time brokerage. I completed the CCIM program, affiliated with some good brokerages along the way, and feel as though the transformation has culminated in my association with Sperry Van Ness Florida.
4. What business book do you like to recommend to your colleagues?
Because of a recommendation by Bo Barron, CCIM, I just finished Michael Hyatt’s “Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World”. As promised, the book delivers great guidance on how to better structure and leverage one’s marketing in the social media universe.
5. What’s a fun fact that not everyone knows about you?
I was drawn to New Smyrna Beach and Ponce Inlet many years ago because of surfing, and I haven’t left yet. Through surfing, I met and married a local girl in a ceremony at the top of the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse. This little beach town has been good to me.
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