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NYU Schack Institute of Real Estate

HUGH KELLY, B.A.


Clinical Associate Professor of Real Estate

Hugh Kelly

Hugh Kelly teaches graduate courses in the areas of real estate investment and development.

He heads his own consulting practice, Hugh F. Kelly Real Estate Economics, which serves national and international real estate investment and services firms, governmental organizations, law firms, and not-for-profit agencies. Prior to establishing this consultancy, he was chief economist for Landauer Associates, where he worked for 22 years until early 2001.

Kelly also serves as the president of the board of directors of the Brooklyn Catholic Charities’ affordable housing development corporation, which has built and manages 3,000 units of housing for low-income families, seniors, and special needs residents. He is a member of the Counselors of Real Estate, the National Association of Business Economists, and the American Philosophical Association. He has spoken to virtually every major real estate organization in the United States, as well as to audiences in Canada, the U.K., France, the Netherlands, and Germany.

The author of more than 200 articles in industry journals, Kelly recently published a paper on contemporary politics and economics titled “Judgment: Imagination, Creativity, and Delusion” in the philosophical journal Existenz.

Kelly earned his B.A. from Cathedral College (New York) and is pursuing his Ph.D. degree at the University of Ulster (Belfast, Northern Ireland).

Area of Expertise: 

  • Real Estate Economics

Recent Publications and Research: Hugh Kelly has been the featured speaker at numerous national conferences of real estate and related industry associations, and will be speaking at the United Nations as part of a conference on World Cities. He has published a number of articles relating to economics in various real estate journals.

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