Management Team
 
     
 

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.

 
     
 
Adam Lotterman, MSRE
A Senior Analyst for Goodkin Consulting, Adam Lotterman has extensive experience in real estate consulting, research and analysis on a national level. His key areas of expertise include acquisition and disposition strategies, feasibility studies, and market analyses for multi-family, retail, office, mixed-use, industrial, hospitality (condo-hotel), master planned communities, private country club communities and active adult housing projects.

Drawing on his wealth of knowledge and familiarity with development, financial, brokerage and other real estate-related issues, Mr. Lotterman has assisted an extensive array of private-sector and public-sector clients, including developers, merchant builders, banks, pension funds, insurance companies, public agencies, municipal governments, real estate owners, private investors, and Wall Street firms.

Mr. Lotterman previously worked with MMC Research for more than four years. MMC Research was the elite internal advisement group at the Marcus & Millichap Company. His internal clients included Summerhill Homes, Urban Housing Group, Meridian Property Company, and Pacific Property Company.

A Florida native, Mr. Lotterman graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science Degree in microbiology and a minor in chemistry. Continuing his education, Mr. Lotterman earned a Masters of Science in International Real Estate from Florida International University, where he graduated first in his class.

 
     
 
Craig A. Werley, CRE
Mr. Werley’s background encompasses more than thirty years of experience in strategic economic consulting services for public and private clients. His experience is international in scope and includes a diverse range of engagements involving economic and demographic analysis and forecasting, economic impact analysis, and real estate market, financial and development analysis and planning studies. Mr. Werley’s work history includes a solid track record of achievement and advancement in leadership positions in consulting and investment/development with leading national firms.

Areas of specialization include urban development analysis and economic planning, strategic real estate development/investment analysis, market and financial feasibility analysis, land-use product positioning, predevelopment planning and project concept development, portfolio acquisition due-diligence, computer based financial analysis, litigation support and fiscal and economic impact analysis.

Mr. Werley’s clients include private investors, governmental entities, national and regional developers, builders, financial institutions, and other professionals engaged in real estate planning, development, valuation, acquisition and disposition. He is frequently quoted in local, state and national publications on Florida real estate market conditions and related real estate investment, development and management topics. He has been a featured speaker at numerous real estate industry conferences and seminars and authors periodic market trend analyses for selected Florida metro areas.

He managed regional real estate consulting practices for two major public accounting firms, including ten years as Director of Real Estate Advisory Services Florida Practice for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Prior experience included diverse real estate consulting and practice management positions with Economic Research Associates and Hammer, Greene, Siler and Associates. Mr. Werley applied his market research and management expertise as Executive Vice-President of one of the nation’s most successful condominium conversion companies, where he was responsible for managing a department responsible for target market analysis, pre-acquisition due-diligence and underwriting.

Mr. Werley has been a full member of the Urban Land Institute for over 25-years. Other professional memberships include The Counselors of Real Estate, National Association of Home Builders, and National Association of Realtors. He formerly served as a Board member of the Southeast Florida Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks and is a past member of the Real Estate Advisory Board at the University of Florida.

Mr. Werley is an Adjunct Professor in Nova Southeastern University’s Master of Science Program in Real Estate Development, where he teaches ‘Real Estate Market and Feasibility Analysis’. Mr. Werley graduated from Emory University where he earned a Bachelors degree in Economics and studied business law and real estate at Georgia State University.

 
     
 

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.

 
     
 
 
   

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