As a Principal on the Capital Markets team, Lyons specializes in the marketing, disposition and acquisition of investment properties. He brings over 25 years of industry experience to the team and has executed over $450 million in transactions. Gary has handled dispositions for large portfolio owners including Foundation Capital, Matrix Realty (NY), SVN Equities and Xerium Corporation. He has also assisted over a dozen owners of healthcare properties in the sale of their medical office buildings. Many of those transactions were sale/leasebacks.
Prior to joining Avison Young, Lyons served as a vice president at Lincoln Harris, where he was responsible for expanding investment sales for the firm’s Raleigh-Durham office. Gary served nine years as the managing director/senior advisor in the Raleigh-Durham office of Sperry Van Ness (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.
Lyons launched his real estate career after a 14 year run in the telecommunications equipment industry. He served in numerous engineering, marketing, and sales positions, including P & L responsibility for a highly profitable $70m business unit of a Fortune 500 company.
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