Lewis M. Goodkin, CRE, FRICS, MIRM
Lewis M. Goodkin is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading real estate consultants to the industry.  During his  long career in the industry, Goodkin has directed more real estate research on large-scale planned communities, golf resort communities, condominium communities and residential resorts than any other market analyst in the United States.  Prior to founding his firm, Goodkin was President of California-based Sanford R. Goodkin Research Corporation (Peat Marwick/Goodkin Real Estate Consulting Group). 

Goodkin’s 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 the year it was written, and was the subject of a special addendum in the New York Times financial section.  In addition, he has written more than 1,500 articles for the trade, business associations, newspapers and magazines. 

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. Lambda Alpha International (an honorary land economics society) and a Life Member, World Future Society.

Jack Winston, A.I.C.P., AIA
Jack Winston has more than 30 years of experience in the real estate development field, and his involvement in a wide range of complex projects throughout the country has made him one of the most knowledgeable people in the field.

Winston holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Pratt Institute in New York, and a Masters in Business Administration and a Masters in Urban & Regional Planning from the University of Miami.  He has practiced architecture, and operated his own residential building company in New York. He has held senior management positions with the largest homebuilders in the world, and owned one of the largest homebuilding companies in the Miami area. 
Winston is a member of the National Association of Home Builders, the Builders’ Association of South Florida, the Urban Land Institute, the American Institute of Architects, the Governor’s Task Force on Urban Growth, the American Planning Association, and the Institute of Residential Marketing. Mr. Winston is an adjunct professor of real estate development and planning at the University of Miami School of Architecture, and an adjunct professor at the university's Law School.  He has been a visiting professor in the Department of Urban and Regional Studies at Florida Atlantic University's Joint Center for Urban Studies, and a visiting professor in the Masters Program of the School of Architecture at Florida International University.  He has also been an instructor for the Department of Building Construction at the State University of New York.

Christopher G. Hamlin, MIRM
Christopher G. Hamlin has more than 30 years of experience in virtually all aspects of residential and commercial development.  A charter member of the Institute of Residential Marketing, Hamlin is extremely familiar with all aspects of mixed-use and community planning, including public-private partnerships, downtown revitalization projects and community redevelopment programs.

Hamlin has assisted property owners, lenders, developers and municipalities in a wide range of real estate projects throughout the United States, Europe and the Caribbean. He has worked closely with land planners, architects and civil engineers, and has been heavily involved in all aspects of permitting at county, state and federal levels.

Hamlin became associated with The Goodkin Group in 1965, as senior vice president. He was also executive vice president and COO of Sanford R. Goodkin Research Corporation (SRGRC), supervising the firm’s research staff and directly providing services to some of the nation’s leading developers and planners of master-planned communities and new towns. He was co-author of the original definitive work on open-space communities in the marketplace for Urban Land Institute. Hamlin was also vice president of marketing and planning for Hollywood, Inc., and served as spokesman at the local, state and federal level for Florida’s largest privately owned builder/developer. He was also national manager of acquisitions for General Electric’s residential and commercial developer Trafalgar, and was co-owner of a mid-scale building company. Hamlin earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Miami. His post-graduate studies include a certificate in mathematics, quantitative and qualitative analysis from the University of California Northridge.

Our Senior Associates
Our seasoned team includes these principal senior associates who
apply their expertise and experience to our consulting engagements:

Judith A. She'
A specialist in resort and community development and private club development and operations, Judith A. She' has been involved in a variety of real estate development disciplines since 1978. Ms. She' gained experience in residential community development with Engle Homes Corporation, and in commercial market dynamics as dispositions director for SERVICO (Hotel) Management Corp., West Palm Beach, prior to joining Boca Raton-based Hunter Moss & Company in 1983.  Upon the merger of Hunter Moss and Company and international consulting firm Pannell Kerr Forster (PKF), she became a senior consultant. Since 1987, she has provided comprehensive real estate market research and real estate analysis on a consulting basis.

Kenneth Goldberg
Kenneth Goldberg is one of the nation’s leading experts in arranging and structuring commercial real estate transactions. Goldberg can draw upon more than 30 years of brokerage and financial experience, as well as his personal integrity and creative thinking, to create win-win transactions and partnerships. Goldberg is particularly expert in structuring construction, long-term and take-out financing, and his real estate finance experience includes debt and equity placements in excess of $100 million. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.

Douglas E. Johnson
Douglas Johnson has worked in banking and real estate finance for more than 30 years, including assignments with the predecessors to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup’s Smith Barney Group, with the Dime Savings Bank and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.  His consulting services include commercial real estate lending, transaction financings and hedging strategies. He is also leading an ownership group in the developing of a 160+ acre retail center. He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and has an MBA from Rutgers University. Professionally, he has spoken widely on mortgage security issues and has represented the mortgage banking trade association in testimony before Congressional committees.