Licensed with Macdonald Commercial Real Estate Services Ltd.
James Lee is an accomplished real estate professional with 13 years of experience in most commercial real estate fields, including Retail, Office, Business, Land, and Leasing.
James Lee was born in Busan, Korea, on 14 February 1961. He graduated from Sogang University with a Bachelor of Engineering in August 1986, and from the Sogang Business School with an MBA degree in Marketing in February, 1992. After receiving his education, James Lee worked as a marketing manager of polymer products in SK Energy company, which is a renowned energy and petrochemical conglomerate in Korea.
His clients included the Nippon Steel Corp and various types of manufacturers using polymer in their products. His market areas were Japan, China, Vietnam, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, India, the Philippines, and other Asian countries. He exported approximately $100 million when he left SK Energy in 2004. He landed in Canada as a permanent resident in Canada. And now he is a Canadian citizen.
James Lee started his 2nd career as a REALTOR® in March, 2006. In the beginning stage of his 2nd career, he mostly focused on the residential field of real estate. He has been able to sell more than 300 houses during his career. However, he gradually shifted into the commercial sector from 2007. Since then, he has had a very extensive experience of trading services in various commercial real estate areas, including office retail building, land, leasing, business with property, small business, etc.
He also has experience in a commercial development, such as the Vedder Village Centre development project - 26,000 sqft retail complex. After the development, he sold and leased the developed complex.