Wichita Means Business 3/04/17 A
Dr. Stan Longhofer with the WSU Center for Real Estate and the Barton School of Business
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join us and he whether us. Today we'd like to talk about real estate and more specifically investment real estate . I'm investing in rental properties and flipping bouncer resale which of course. As a very popular trend going on in that in our area around here I believe in but we have a special guests and our first segment today that really is an authority. An expert in this field retirement doctor Stanley long offer. Who's the founding director of the W issue center for real estate and it's a Stephen Al Clark chair real estate and finance in the Barton school of business. And Wichita State doctor Stan thank you for being here today well thank you
over there and I know that your focuses of course on the real estate and you have a big a report that you do every year in which we'd sure like to talk about that but I would give us a snapshot if you would of of all the things that your directing over at Wichita State sure well I'm a professor. In the business school at Wichita State and we have one of the only four year degree programs in real estate in the region the only wanted to -- -- Kansas and so I oversee that program and teach a lot of the real estate courses including real estate investments development. General introduction to real estate real estate finance and so forth but in addition I'm the director of the center for real -- which is an outreach center to try and really bridged the divide between what we do with the university in terms of our teaching -- our research and the professional community and so through the center for real estate we provide research services and analysis for real estate professionals and for government officials and the general public about what's going on in real estate markets around the region one of the real advances we've had here recently was an expanded new website that we unveiled just last year and on that website we now provide a lot of data and two graphs and analysis of real estate markets not just Wichita but every major market in the state and so we'd really encourage people to to look at that website when they're trying to analyze and understand what's going on in real estate markets . If you're listening or following along today waiting courage to do that right now. You can go to that website and check out some of the details it's a real estate dot Wichita dot edu right that's right if you put into a search engine Wichita State real estate our website will be one of the first ones that comes up as well we really try and serve the community at Wichita State's by taking the expertise that we have is researchers and as teachers who are really spending a lot of time developing a deep understanding of our different areas of expertise. A part of our role is to then be able to communicate that and serve the community at large by answering questions in dealing with issues that are related to our particular field so that's just a great resource for entrepreneurs and people that are just interest and real estate that's amazing that we have that right here in which Todd take advantage and it's the only regents school in the state
your neighborhood that's when you really need to work with the practicing real estate professionals whether it's a realtor or whether it's ever appraiser. To get specific information about what's going on in your neighborhood and