Events
“The Future of the Housing Market”
An in-depth discussion on housing, real estate, bailouts and a new administration.
Join our Guest Experts:
Andrew Caplin, Moderator
Professor or Economics, New York University
Specialist in Economics of Residential Real Estate Finance
Jim Carr
COO, National Community Reinvestment Coalition,
Formerly of the Fannie Mae Foundation
Dolly Lenz
Vice Chairman
Prudential Douglas Elliman
Alan Reynolds
Senior Fellow, Economist, Cato Institute
John C. Weicher
Director of Hudson Institute’s Center for Housing and Financial Markets
John Tomlinson
Director, Senior Analyst, Homebuilders
Majestic Research
Housing_Market_Event_v_1028.pdf
When: November 12, 2008
Where: New York City, NY,
Time: 5:30 – 7:30pm
The Four Seasons Hotel
57 East 57th Street
New York, New York
Cost: Free to Majestic clients and $1000 for non-clients.
RSVP:
Please RSVP by November 7th
whitney@majesticresearch.com
(646) 442-6402
Industry Experts Attending:
Andrew Caplin, Professor of Economics, New York University
Andrew Caplin is a Professor of Economics at New York University and co-Director of the Center for Experimental Social Science. He serves as Co-Editor of the Oxford University Press series, “Methods of Modern Economics,” on the Steering Committee of the Health and Retirement Survey, and as a Fellow of the Econometric Society. His interests include economic theory, psychology and economics, and the economics of residential real estate finance.
Jim Carr, Chief Operating Officer, National Community Reinvestment CoalitionJim Carr is COO for the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, an association of 600 local development organizations across the nation dedicated to improving the flow of capital to communities and promoting economic mobility. He is also a visiting professor at Columbia University. Previously, Jim was Senior Vice President for Financial Innovation, Planning and Research, for the Fannie Mae Foundation, and Vice President for Housing Research at Fannie Mae. He has also held posts as Assistant Director for Tax Policy with the US Senate Budget Committee and as Research Associate at the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University.
Dolly Lenz, Vice Chairman, Prudential Douglas Elliman
Anyone who follows New York City Real Estate will recognize the name Dolly Lenz as unquestionably New York City’s premier real estate agent. She has been called “New York’s Real Estate Queen” by “The Economist” magazine and the real estate blog “The Real Estalker” described her as “the most successful real estate agent that ever walked the earth.” Dolly is recognized as the reigning top producing broker in the United States, with over $3.6 billion dollars in real estate listings. Furthermore, she has accomplished this remarkable feat an unprecedented five years in a row. With 20 years of real estate marketing and sales experience, Dolly has personally sold over $ 7.5 billion dollars in property and has built her own real estate empire as Vice Chairman with PDE. Due to the depth of her experience and knowledge, she is repeatedly sought after to represent some of the most exclusive properties in the world and makes regular appearances on CNBC’s “Power Lunch,” “Fox News with Neil Cavuto,” “Prime Time Thursday,” and “The View” on ABC, and in various media publications including Forbes, The Financial Times, and Barrons.
Alan Reynolds, Senior Fellow, Economist, Cato Institute
Alan Reynolds is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and was formerly Director of Economic Research at the Hudson Institute. He served as Research Director with the National Commission on Tax Reform and Economic Growth, an advisor to the National Commission on the Cost of Higher Education, and was a member of the OMB transition team in 1981. His studies have been published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Joint Economic Committee, the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and St. Louis, and the Australian Stock Exchange. Author of “Income and Wealth” (Greenwood Press 2006), he has written for numerous publications since 1971, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, National Review, The New Republic, Fortune, and The Harvard Business Review. He is a former columnist with Forbes, Reason, and Creators Syndicate.
John C. Weicher, Director of Hudson Institute’s Center for Housing and Financial Markets
John Weicher is Director of Hudson Institute’s Center for Housing and Financial Markets. From 2001 to 2005 he served as Assistant Secretary for Housing and Federal Housing Commissioner at HUD, with responsibility for a staff of 3,400 and half a trillion dollars of FHA mortgage insurance. His major initiatives included promoting minority homeownership, regulatory reform of the real estate settlement process, and mission regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He served as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research at HUD from 1989 to 1993 and as Chief Economist at both HUD (1975-1977) and OMB (1987-1989).
John Tomlinson, CFA/CPA, Director, Senior Analyst, Homebuilders and Hardline Retail
John Tomlinson has been working in the equity research industry for eight years. Since joining Majestic in 2005, John has covered the Homebuilding and Hardline retail sectors. He currently covers 12 of the publicly traded homebuilders and utilizes proprietary data sets to provide clients with timely updates on developing sector trends. Prior to joining Majestic, John was the Senior Auto Retail Analyst for the Prudential Equity Group after serving as an associate for an Institutional Investor-ranked Automotive team. He received a BS in Accounting from Syracuse University and an MBA in Finance from Wake Forest University. John is also a CFA charter