Thomas “Tommy” W. Tift, III is Executive Vice President of Lincoln Harris CSG. Prior to joining Lincoln he was President, CEO and Founder of HealthAmerica Realty Group, L.L.C., a 25-year-old, Atlanta-based real estate company that specialized solely in medical office buildings and clinic facilities. His clients include healthcare REITs, hospital/health systems, physicians, institutional, and individual investors who own medical office buildings. Tommy has over 37 years’ experience in the medical office building/healthcare real estate industry encompassing development, investment brokerage sales, leasing, financing and repositioning/workouts of medical office buildings and healthcare facilities throughout the United States.
Tommy began his medical office career with Hardwick and Associates, a Los Angeles-based medical real estate company, in 1982 where he served for seven years as a full time real estate consultant/broker to the real estate development division of America Medical International, Inc. (AMI). AMI was located in Beverly Hills, California and was the second largest owner of hospitals in the world with 225. From 1989 until forming HealthAmerica Realty Group in 1994, Tommy brokered and developed medical office buildings with different individual partners through his company, The Medical Property Company, Inc. based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Tommy is a native of Atlanta and is a member of the Rotary Club of Atlanta, Georgia Hospital Association, Board of Directors of Piedmont Cotton Mills, Inc., Board of Advisors of Healthcare Real Estate Insights, and former Advisory Board of the Medical Office Building Division of BOMA.
EDUCATION & ACCREDITATION
• Washington & Lee University, B.S., Accounting
• Licensed Real Estate Broker, Florida & Georgia