Wayne D’Amico Elected First Vice President Of CCIM Institute

Nov. 9, 2010 - PRLog -- CHICAGO, IL (November 9, 2010) – Wayne D’Amico, CCIM, of Essex, Connecticut, was elected the 2011 first vice president of the CCIM Institute, an international commercial real estate organization with 16,000 members worldwide.  The institute confers the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation to qualified commercial real estate and allied professionals.  He was elected October 22 at the organization’s annual business meetings in Orlando, Florida.

D’Amico is president and principal of Property Politics, a commercial real estate development, brokerage, and advisory firm based in Essex.  He will assume the presidency of the institute in 2013 and will be the first CCIM national president to hail from Connecticut.  D’Amico will serve on the 2011 CCIM Institute management team with President Frank Simpson, CCIM, Gainesville, GA; President-elect Leil Koch, CCIM, Lahaina, HI; and Treasurer Chuck Connely, CCIM, Kansas City, MO.

A 23-year commercial real estate veteran, D’Amico has been involved in commercial real estate projects totaling nearly $250,000,000.  In addition to earning the CCIM designation in 1996, D'Amico is a broker, certified general real estate appraiser and advisor specializing in property tax assessment validation and complex transaction management.   He was a member of the 2003 Charter Class of the Jay W. Levine Leadership Development Academy and has served the CCIM Institute in various capacities on the regional and national level, including sitting on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors.  He also served as a presidential liaison to 2010 CCIM Institute President Richard Juge, CCIM.  D’Amico was president of the Connecticut CCIM Chapter in 2002 and was a founding director of the New York City Metro CCIM Chapter formed in 2008.  He is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers and is a 1989 graduate of New York University.

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Since 1969, the Chicago-based CCIM Institute has conferred the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation to commercial real estate and allied professionals through an extensive curriculum of 200 hours and professional experiential requirements. The core curriculum addresses financial analysis, market analysis, user decision analysis, investment analysis, and negotiation—the cornerstones of commercial investment real estate. An affiliate of the National Association of Realtors®, the CCIM Institute also offers powerful technology tools such as the Site To Do Business, an online site analysis and demographics resource, and CCIMREDEX, a single-entry listing and data exchange. Currently, there are more than 9,500 CCIMs in 1,000 markets in the U.S. and 31 additional countries, with another 6,000 practitioners pursuing the designation, making the institute the governing body of one of the largest commercial real estate networks in the world. Visit http://www.ccim.com.