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Center bids Farewell to CF
 The Center for Real Estate publicly thanks Professor C.F. Sirmans for his service and dedication to the Center, School, and University. CF’s seventeen years as Director was marked by significant contributions in a number of areas, including outstanding support for undergraduate and graduate students, development of programs and resources for state government and real estate professionals, and meaningful research recognized at locally, nationally and internationally. On a more personal note, the faculty and staff at the Center thank CF for being our friend and mentor. He was an invaluable source of encouragement, counsel, and advice. He believed in all of us, and his door was always open. He enabled us to see the big picture, and to be better teachers, better researchers, and better critical thinkers. While we wish him well on his next academic adventure, we will miss him greatly. |
Interim Director Ray Kehrhahn
Ray A. Kehrhahn is Interim Director of the Center for Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies at the University of Connecticut. Presently, Ray is exploring the current and future impact of the Internet and information technology on various segments of the real estate industry. Additionally, Ray provides consulting services to Connecticut Municipalities, Regional Planning Agencies, and financial services companies active in the real estate capital markets. He serves as the President of the Board of Trustees for the Connecticut Fireman’s Historical Society, Inc. and is Executive Director of it’s museum located in Manchester’s Historic Cheney District. Prior to joining the Real Estate Center, he spent 15 years in the real estate industry as an investment real estate broker and entrepreneur/investor, completing over $150 million in transactions. In addition, he was a partner in ARG Information Systems, a software company providing accounting, asset management, and database systems to the real estate industry. Ray is a Masters of Business Administration graduate of the University of Connecticut with a finance concentration in Real Estate and Urban Economic Studies, and a Graduate of Eastern Connecticut State University with Bachelors of Science in Accounting and a minor in Economics, graduating with distinction as a University Presidential Scholar. |
Real Estate Center Future Director John Clapp
John Clapp will serve as Director for The Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics Studies starting January 2009. John Clapp, is Professor of Finance and Real Estate at the Center for Real Estate, University of Connecticut. John teaches real estate market analysis and other courses related to real estate and finance. He has worked with the Brookings Institution, The Lincoln Land Institute, the University of California at Los Angeles, the U.S. General Accounting Office, Citibank, The California Department of Savings & Loan, Peat Marwick, and People’s Bank. In 1997 he was appointed to the faculty of the Weimer School for Advanced Studies, the Homer Hoyt Institute. His work for these organizations is on the location of office buildings, office market analysis, cycles in regional employment growth, the appraisal of special purpose properties, mortgage underwriting, real estate price indices, and forecasting local markets. His continuing work on real estate price indices has been cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Hartford Courant, The Commercial Record, and other publications. John has published extensively in the Journal of Regional Science, Real Estate Economics, The Journal of Urban Economics, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Journal of the American Statistical Association, and other journals. He is on the editorial boards of Real Estate Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, and Real Estate Research. |
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