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James Blake honored with Charles D. Tandy #CRE award

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James_BlakeJames Blake, CCIM, Managing Director for SVN/Summit Commercial Realty, recently received the 2013 Charles D. Tandy Commercial Realtor award, the top honor of the Society of Commercial Realtors. This award was established to recognize commercial realtors who best exemplify the highest in professional standards.

Integrity, leadership and outstanding character are really what this award is about, and no one exemplifies those qualities better than James Blake

2014 SCR Chairman Bill Makens

With more than 28 years of Dallas/Fort Worth commercial real estate market experience, Blake has combined sales and leases in excess of $320 million. While Blake’s shopping center and industrial clients are all across the United States, his focus is retail and industrial income producing properties in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex area.
*All Sperry Van Ness offices are independently owned and operated.

5 for Friday with James Blake of SVN/Summit Commercial

Posted on by Diane Danielson

Today we get 5 questions answered by James Blake, CCIM , managing director of Sperry Van Ness/Summit Commercial in Fort Worth, TX.

James Blake
James Blake, CCIM, Managing Director, SVN/Summit Commercial

 1.  What is your geographic market and product specialty? 

My main market is the west side of the Dallas / Fort Worth metroplex focusing on Fort Worth retail, including shopping centers, retail pads and single tenant retail sales.

2. What’s your latest best practice tip that you can share?

Keep up to date on market knowledge and market trends. Clients like it when you can educate them on transactions in the market and what is happening with occupancy rates and cap rates for example. The property owners perceive a real value in a agent that has market knowledge.

3. What’s been the biggest change over on how you run your business in the past decade?

Using the tools and resources available to me.  SVN allows me save time on my marketing using the BuildOut platform. I also have good advisors in my office who enjoy rolling up their sleeves and working smart.

4. What business book do you like to recommend to your colleagues? 

I always like to recommend The Little Red Book of Selling by Jeffrey Gitomer,  especially to new advisors.

5. What’s a fun fact that not everyone knows about you? 

I really enjoy making family vacation videos on my iMac.  It is fun going back after a couple years and watching highlights of our trips.  And of course, to make the videos  I have to take the vacations with my wife and or my two college age sons who love scuba diving and mountain climbing. Love the GoPro camera!

 

*All Sperry Van Ness offices are independently owned and operated.