Stephen M. Soble, SIOR, CCIM, President of Ernest Soble Commercial Properties, Inc., has been active in the commercial real estate industry for over 19 years, specializing in the sales and leasing of industrial and office properties, site sales, builds to suit, design builds, investment properties, and property management services for all commercial property types. Mr. Soble has earned designations in and is an active member of the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR) and the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM). SIOR’s are comprised of over 1,800 networking specialists worldwide engaged in marketing industrial and office properties and meeting real estate needs of business and corporate clients, while CCIM designees (of which there are only approximately 6,000 in 1,000 markets throughout the world) are recognized internationally as experts in the disciplines of commercial and investment real estate.
Graduating from the University of Texas at Austin, with a BBA in Accounting in 1977, Mr. Soble worked as a staff accountant in the tax department in the local office of the international accounting firm of Ernst &Young (formerly Ernst & Ernst) until entering St. Mary’s University School of Law in 1978. Upon receiving his J.D. in 1981, he practiced law in San Antonio, specializing in estate, probate, and real estate with the Law Offices of Peter M. Wolverton, a local tax attorney. In early 1983, encouraged by his father, Ernest Soble, Stephen joined Ernest Soble Commercial Properties where he began his commercial real estate career.
Mr. Soble is a member of the National Association of Realtors (NAR), Texas Association of Realtors (TAR), San Antonio Board of Realtors (SABOR), SABOR’s Commercial Investment Division (where he serves on the Board of Governors as Vice Chairman), Real Estate Council of San Antonio, CREW-San Antonio (which is a part of the National Network of Commercial Real Estate Women) and Independent Commercial Brokers Association. He also currently serves on the CCIM Institute’s Professional Standards Committee and Bylaws Committee (at a national level) and previously served on TAR’s Professional Standards Committee and SABOR’s Commercial Grievance Committee, and is a member of the San Antonio/South Texas CCIM Chapter serving on the Board of Directors as its Immediate Past President and Special Events Chair.
Today, Mr. Soble’s firm completes in excess of 100 brokerage transactions annually and manages over 50 properties.
