Professional Expertise 

Tucker Shade is the Executive Vice President and Carolinas Market Leader based in Raleigh-Durham. As the Carolinas Market Leader, he oversees the team in the Raleigh-Durham office. Additionally, Tucker leads brokerage and consulting practices in the region while executing strategies to continue the company’s growth and prominence in the Carolinas. With more than decades of experience in commercial real estate, Tucker has represented corporate, industrial and retail tenants. He specializes in lease negotiation, asset purchase/disposition, and sale-leasebacks of company-owned properties.

Tucker helped establish the Savills office in Raleigh in 2012 and has since excelled in several roles, including corporate managing director, senior managing director, and executive vice president. Clients appreciate Tucker’s dogged approach to negotiation and willingness to dig into the technical challenges that arise during a transaction to find solutions. Tucker has worked with major employers such as AIG, Apple, Amazon, Brooks Pierce, CenExel Clinical Trials, FHI 360, Flextronics, Kisinger Campo, Marmon, State Farm, The Nature Conservancy and Verisk Analytics. Tucker has completed transactions in all major markets in the United States as well as 25 countries worldwide.

His ability to understand his clients’ complex business aspirations helps him develop innovative, effective real estate solutions that meet their objectives. Before joining Savills, Tucker was an associate vice president in the corporate services division at Tri Properties Inc., a boutique commercial real estate firm in Durham, North Carolina Where he worked for eight years. Prior to commercial real estate Tucker worked in software sales for 5 years in San Francisco, CA.

Awards, Achievements and Activities

Tucker has been a member of the Triangle Commercial Association of Realtors (TCAR) Million Dollar Office Leasing Club for multiple years, as well as the Million Dollar Sales Club. He is also a member of the Triangle Area Office Building Association (TRAOBA) and Triangle Commercial Association of Realtors (TCAR) and received the Rising Star award and Mover and Shaker award, respectively. While attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for his undergraduate degree, Tucker captained the varsity swim team. As a swimmer, Tucker was a nine-time ACC champion and four-time Division I All-American.