Updated brief bio for 2020

HUGH KELLY Ph.D., CRE

Academic Director and Chair, Curriculum Committee,  Fordham University Real Estate Institute

 

Hugh Kelly is Fordham’s Real Estate Institute director of academic affairs, member of the Executive Advisory Council, curriculum committee chair, and coordinator of the mentorship program. Previously, he was a founding faculty member of New York University’s Masters Degree in Real Estate program where he taught from 1988 through 2016.

He heads his own consulting practice, Hugh F. Kelly Real Estate Economics, which serves the private sector, governmental organizations, and not‐for‐profit agencies.

 Hugh served as the Board Chair of the Counselors of Real Estate in 2014, and in November 2019 received the CRE’s highest honor, the Landauer/White Award for his professional achievements and for his civic and non-profit community work. He served six years as Board President of the affordable housing agency of Brooklyn/Queens Catholic Charities, and is presently a vice-chair of boards for corporations holding and managing the real property assets of the Brooklyn diocese.

 Hugh’s book 24-Hour Cities: Real Investment Performance, Not Just Promises was published by Routledge, and won the Gold Award for books from the National Association of Real Estate Editors in 2017.

 Hugh was the lead author of Emerging Trends in Real Estate from 2015 to 2020, and for Integra Realty Resources annual Viewpoint 1017 to 2021.  His columns on economics and real estate appear regularly in Commercial Property Executive. He publishes regularly in real estate academic journals, as well as in philosophy.

  Kelly earned his B.A. in philosophy (magna cum laude) from Cathedral College (Douglaston, New York) and his Ph.D. in real estate and the built environment at the University of Ulster, (Belfast, Northern Ireland).

Brief Biographical Information

Brief biographical information for Hugh F. Kelly, PhD, CRE ®

Hugh is  Special Advisor to Fordham University's Real Estate Institute and serves as Chair of its Curriculum Committe. Previously he was a Clinical Professor in New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate where he has taught for 32 years. Hugh holds a PhD from the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland in Urban Economics and the Built Environment. He heads his own consulting practice, Hugh F. Kelly Real Estate Economics. Prior to 2001, he was chief economist for Landauer Associates, one of the nation’s most prominent commercial property consulting firms. His portfolio of work includes the economic study that led to the East Brooklyn Congregation’s “Nehemiah Program”, which has built over 3,500 homes in the most impoverished neighborhoods of Brooklyn and Queens; the site selection study which located the Saturn automobile plant for General Motors; the “Cities of Tomorrow” study which enabled Lend-Lease (Australia) to purchase the $4 billion+ investment portfolio of Equitable Real Estate Investors; and expert testimony in various phases of the rebuilding of New York’s World Trade Center after the 9/11 terrorism catastrophe.

Hugh is a member of the Counselors of Real Estate (and was its Chairman in 2014). Hugh has published more than 300 articles in industry and academic journals. He has been the principal writer of the ULI/PwC publication, Emerging Trends in Real Estate for the past four years (annual editions for 2015 - 2018) . His book,. “24-hour Cities: Performance Beyond Promises” (Routledge, 2016)  received the Bruss "Gold Award" from the National Association of Real Estate Editors in 2017.

Hugh served pro bono as the President of the Board of Brooklyn Catholic Charities’ affordable housing development corporation from 2006 to 2012, and is now a board member of corporate entities with responsibility for the Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn’s physical assets.

His B.A. in Philosophy (magna cum laude) was earned at Cathedral College, Douglaston, Queens in 1970. He is a member of the American Philosophical Association and a Life Member of the Karl Jaspers Society of North America. In 2008, his paper “Judgment: Imagination, Creativity, and Delusion,” was published in the journal Existenz (v.3, n.1: Boston University).