Maryland Commercial Real Estate Investors

D. Scott Smith has more than 10 years of leadership experience in the real estate industry. An accomplished strategist and marketer, his vision and expertise in real estate performance has realized notable investors significant growth in the commercial, land development and residential real estate sectors. His achievements have been featured in Who’s Who in Business management, Who’s Who International, Baltimore Business Journal, Wall Street Journal, and the Baltimore “City Paper” as well as other business media.Offering a rare blend of creative and operational strengths, D. Scott Smith has achieved exciting urban economic development turnarounds and is recognized for his success in growing sales and profits.

His strategic approach to building an investment portfolio is reflected in his work as CEO of Spidey Inc. and as President of Spyder Development LLC, where his concept creation and focus on quick turn investing quickly delivered impressive bottom-line results. His capability is highlighted by his accomplishments as the Commercial Sales Manager of Raimondi Realtors, and has been recently been hired by Long and Foster Realtors to instruct and assist through the commercial network (ComNet) 120 commercial agents in their marketing, analyzing, and consulting their commercial real estate transactions. Mr. Smith is the newly elected Secretary of the Maryland/DC Local CCIM chapter.

Through both residential and commercial components, D. Scott Smith has played an instrumental role in the revitalization of the Greek town community of East Baltimore. He is currently working with both Maryland State and City officials to support the continued growth in that area.

In June 2006, Mr. Smith attended the Commercial Development course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After completing the course, he designed and was awarded the bid for a new 75 unit affordable town home community in the Sand town / Winchester area of Baltimore City. He will be acting as a principal in the development and is working the community, city, and state officials to bring continued support to this historical undertaking. He originally completed the concept as a home work assignment for his course.

D. Scott Smith’s exceptional track record of investment real estate is based on his philosophy of total entrepreneur engagement in change. He is known for his ability to quickly identify and diagnose sales and growth potential that go far beyond marketing. Examples include working with investors to refine their investment structure, cost of capital, out sourcing requirements, sales channels, market position, as well as point-of-sale and general advertising.

D. Scott Smith received his CCIM designation in 2007 and is one of around 1000 CCIM’s in the world in his age group. He also serves as an instructor for the Realtors Commercial Alliance, the commercial group of the National Association of Realtors. D. Scott Smith is active in the International Council of Shopping Centers and the Certified International Property Specialist and was invited to and did attend the MIPIM World’s Market Leaders conference in Cannes, France in March of 2006. His next goal is to become a CCIM Instructor and to build a vacation site on his private island in Canada..

Mr. Smith is available for private consulting as well as offering a full spectrum of commercial and investment real estate services.