Gary Lyons, CCIM,SIOR, MBA

With over 25 years of experience in commercial real estate with Avison Young, Lincoln Harris, Sperry Van Ness, and Brassfield Commercial Gary has been directly involved in approximately $450M of sales transactions during career and over 500,000 sq-ft of leasing transactions. Prior to career in commercial real estate, Lyons held positions in senior management, marketing, product management, and sales engineering with Scientific-Atlanta (now CISCO), Siecor (now Corning Cable Systems) and Cheetah Technologies. As a principal on the Capital Markets team, Gary specializes in the marketing, disposition, and acquisition of investment properties. He has handled dispositions for several large portfolio owners including Matrix Realty, Advocare, SVN Equities and Xerium Corporation. Gary has also assisted many medical groups in the sale (and lease back) of their medical office buildings. Prior to joining Avison Young, he served as a vice president at Lincoln Harris, where he was responsible for expanding investment sales for the firm’s Raleigh-Durham office. Gary spent nine years as the managing director/senior advisor in the Raleigh-Durham office of SVN, where he directed a team of brokers that specialized in investment sales transactions. Under his leadership, the brokerage team completed approximately $200M of transactions in nearly every sector of the industry. In 2009, he served as the President of the North Carolina CCIM Chapter, an organization which has over 600 members. Gary has held the CCIM designation since 2002 and SIOR designation since 2008.

• Specialties
  Investment Sales Broker, Tenant Rep
• Languages
  English
• Markets
  Raleigh/Durham, Greenville/Spartanburg, Greensboro/Winston-Salem, Charleston/N Charleston, Columbia
• Property Types
  Industrial, Land, Office, Retail, Multifamily, Healthcare
• Awards
  2007 Platinum Achiever's Award Winner (Sperry Van Ness)
• LinkedIn Profile
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• Websites
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• Education
  MBA - Georgia State University (1994) BS Engineering - Duke University (1984) Licensed Real Estate Broker, South Carolina & North Carolina
• Organizations
  CCIM - Certified Commercial Investment Member, SIOR - Society of Industrial and Office Realtors, ULI - Urban Land Institute