CHICAGO – Lewis M. Goodkin, CRE, has been designated a “Fellow” (FRICS) of the London-based Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the largest professional body for property, land, construction and related environmental issues worldwide. 
 
Through a unique agreement with the U.S.-based Counselors of Real Estate organization, The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors invites only select members through its “Eminent Practitioner” route. With the FRICS designation, Goodkin joins an elite corps of individuals who represent only a fraction of one percent of the 110,000 global membership of RICS. 
 
Widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading consultants to the real estate industry, Goodkin is president of Miami-based Goodkin Consulting.  During his four decades in the industry, Goodkin has directed more research on large-scale planned communities, golf resort communities, condominium communities and residential resorts than any other market analyst in the United States. 
 
Goodkin is the author of the highly acclaimed book, “When Real Estate and Home Building Becomes Big Business,” was selected by the Library Journal as one of the year’s best business books, and has written more than 1,500 professional articles. 
 
A graduate of Temple University, Goodkin has lectured frequently on urban land economics, real estate investment, development and marketing.  He serves on the Real Estate Advisory Board of the University of Florida and the Advisory Board of the School of Design at the University of Florida. He is former chairman of the South Florida-Caribbean District Council of the Urban Land Institute and past chairman of the South Florida-Caribbean Chapter of the American Society of Real Estate Counselors (CRE).  He is a designated member of the Institute of Residential Marketing and Lambda Alpha International (an honorary land economics society).  

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