CCIM
rests predominately on a three legged
stool:
N: Networking
E: Education
T: Technology
Networking:
The CCIM organization offer many areas
where members can Network to interact
with other CCIM Designees, Candidates
and other interested real estate
professionals. Networking opportunities
with CCIMs can take place at local
Chapter activities and events; Regional
marketing programs; National events and
conferences; Industry conferences and
meetings; Through CCIM Web site
www.CCIM.com directory and other
methods that are constantly being
introduced to encourage CCIMs to work
with and “do deals together”. Another
great networking opportunity takes place
between students attending various
courses. CCIMs feel comfortable that
when they contact another CCIM knowing
their CCIM counterparts have gone
through the same CCIM education,
training and development of the
“win/win” philosophy.
Education: CCIM
was initially founded on the basis of
providing commercial real estate
practitioners with a detailed education
program that used discounted cash flow
analysis to put commercial real estate
on an equal basis with other investment
vehicles like stocks and bonds. Over
the years the curriculum has transformed
with changes in the investment world and
now integrates technological tools in
providing an analysis of the investment
value of real estate. The courses are
taught by real estate practitioners that
are active in their own day-to-day real
estate businesses and not by full time
educators. The requirements to obtain
the CCIM designation today include 4
core courses, an advanced interest based
negotiations course, submission of a
detailed resume showing competency, an
optional 2 day Course Concepts Review
course (the few days before the
Comprehensive Exam) and a Comprehensive
Exam. Courses are now offered over
multiple platforms that include:
Traditional 5 day in class format;
on-line self-study format; hybrid format
that includes instructor led 2 and ½
days of information in an on-line format
(over a few week period) followed by 2
and ½ days in a classroom setting.
Education is an ongoing requirement and
most states now require some form of
Continuing Education in order to
maintain licenses, with the constant
change taking place in the real estate
practices and techniques, the CCIM
Institute recently created the Robert L.
Ward program to provide and create 1 – 3
hour webinars and 1-2 day classes on a
broad range of current real estate
activities. These are geared to
Designees and other real estate
professionals, to learn new skills or
sharpen skills that have gone dull over
the years.
Paul A. Lynn, CCIM teaches a 90
minute
“Fundamentals of Real Estate Auctions”
2 – 3 times each year.
Technology: As
detailed presentations, computers and
now other hand-held and tablet devices
have become more prevalent in the
marketing, sale and management of real
estate, the CCIM Institute created the
Site to Do Business Online (STDB) as a
member service to provide its members a
cornucopia of services that individually
would cost an individual thousands of
dollars to obtain comparable services.
Some of these include: Detailed
Demographic information; Quality aerial
photographs; Pictometry Oblique Imagery;
Mapping capability; Ability to annotate
presentations; Traffic counts;
Walk/Transit scores; Downloadable
detailed business lists and many other
services and programs some for
substantially discounted fees. The
bottom line is CCIM Tech is a
broad-based technology services platform
that is ever changing and proves members
of the CCIM Institute the most
up-to-date technological presentation
and information services available in
the marketplace today and tomorrow.
