Lucas, CCIM is a 33 year commercial real estate professional and works with clients on the sales, leasing, and investment in commercial real estate. Jay also provides GIS insight s and analysis for individuals and businesses to provide better market information for commercial real estate decisions. Lucas Company, and left the company to work on his own and to pursue the advancement of technology i
n the commercial real estate industry. Lucas, CCIM was the President and CEO of CCIM Technologies, Inc. CCIMTECH operates the Site to Do Business and CCIMREDEX. STDBonline is the premier commercial real estate application which Jay created with the CCIM Institute in 1999. Jay was born and raised in Dallas, Texas and graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in 1975 as a National Merit Scholarship semifinalist and class president, and attended the University of Texas at Austin, graduating in 1979 with a BBA in finance. After graduating college, he joined the Vantage Realty Company which was later renamed the Harry B. Lucas Company. A licensed Texas Real Estate Broker, Jay is primarily engaged in the selling and leasing of commercial office and industrial buildings and the selling/acquisition of other investment properties. Jay has been married to his wife, Cindy, for thirty one years, and is the father of two children. He is a sports enthusiast, and especially loves college sports. He served numerous years as a board member of his Church, the Greater Dallas Association of Realtors, the Texas Association of Realtors, and National Association of Realtors including the NAR Executive Committee. Jay chaired the Methodist Leaders Board of the Methodist Hospitals of Dallas and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Dallas Methodist Hospitals Foundation for more than 10 years. Jay received his Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) Designation in November of 1985. He served as the President of the North Texas CCIM Chapter in 1990 and 1991. Jay was the 1995 National President of the CCIM Institute which confers the prestigious CCIM Designation. In 1995 Jay was the recipient of the Stemmons Service Award as the top commercial real estate broker of the North Texas Commercial Association of Realtors, and received the Texas Association of Realtors 1996 William Jennings Lone Star Trophy for the year’s most outstanding commercial real estate transaction in the state of Texas. In 2002, Jay was honored by the Chicago-based CCIM Institute as the recipient of its Jay W. Levine Distinguished Service Award. The Service Award recognizes a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) who has demonstrated a longstanding and exceptional level of service to the CCIM organization. In December of 2003, Realtor Magazine recognized Jay as one of the 25 most influential people in real estate.
