J. Lennox Scott is Chairman and CEO of John L. Scott Real Estate. John L. Scott has 113 offices with over 2,900 sales associates in the states of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Last year John L. Scott closed over 42,000 transactions for more than 8.2 billion dollars in volume. REAL Trends ranked John L. Scott Real Estate as the 4th largest regional real estate brand in the United States.
Lennox is the third generation to run the family business, which was founded in 1931 by his grandfather. He began in the real estate industry in 1976, taking over as president of the company in 1980. Lennox was recognized by REALTOR(r) Magazine as one of the nation's Top 25 Most Influential People in Real Estate. He was also honored as one of the Top 5 Most Admired Individuals in Real Estate in the nation, by REAL Trends. Most recently, Lennox published his first book, Next Generation Real Estate, which discusses the evolution of the industry and what it takes to be a successful real estate professional in the 21st century. The book can be purchased online at www.johnlscott.com/book.
John L. Scott's Web site, www.JohnLScott.com, is one of the nation's top-rated real estate Web sites and was a recipient of the Inman Innovation Award in 2002 for "Most Innovative Real Estate Company" in the nation. John L. Scott's Web site has the entire Northwest MLS listing inventory and receives over one million visits a month, producing over 50 million hits.
