Sanford Goodkin's bio
• Board Member, Design Innovation Institute
• Trustee of San Diego State University Research Foundation
• Adjunct Professor, The New School of Architecture, teaching ethics, leadership and critical thinking
• Advisor to the Burnham-Moore Real Estate Institute of USD
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Lecturer in the Master of Science Degree in Real Estate, USD
• California Building Industry Hall of Fame
• International Trustee of the Urban Land Institute
• Regional Chairman Emeritus of San Diego Regional ULI District
• Trustee of the New School of Architecture
• California Construction Industries Hall of Fame
• Chairman, Sanford R. Goodkin & Associates
• Director, California Institute Cities of the Future
• Considered real estate's leading Guru, as mentioned in the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union, and many papers and magazines
• Board of Children of the Rainbow
• Board of San Diego Home Loan Counseling
• Board of the Olson Companies
• 2003 NAHB Legend of Residential Marketing Award
Sanford "Sandy" Goodkin celebrates his 48th anniversary in his profession of real estate consulting and analysis, during which time he has been involved in over $50 billion worth of real estate development and studies. He is an internationally known analyst, author, economist and futurist. In 1991, after the completion of his merger and early retirement from KMPG Peat Marwick, he re-established his consulting practice, which includes mentoring highly successful entrepreneurs seeking new vistas, asset owners needing personal strategies, and overall feasibility analysis.
He has done studies of the Baja California, Mexico region; and analysed the implications of the year 2000 election on Mexico. He specializes in analysis of investments and development in Mexico, and has a wide range of associates and contacts throughout the country.
He is on the Board of Directors of the Olson Company, which is the leading developer of urban housing.
He has assisted in the structuring of Pan Pacific Retailing Properties, which is a publicly owned REIT, and one of the largest shopping center REITs in the Western States.
Sandy is the pioneer of residential research, master planned communities, elderly housing, and the earliest information exchanges with Japan, starting in 1980, as well as China, where he did 3 1/2 years of research in the 1950s.
He is past national Chairman of the Institute of Residential Marketing; recipient of the beloved Max Tipton Memorial Award. Sandy is Regional Chairman of the San Diego/Tijuana District for the Urban Land Institute, and past Chairman of the Residential Gold Executive Council, as well as being on the Executive Board of the Program Committee, and the Community Development Council.
Sandy also assisted in the creation of the first real estate programs at UCLA and USC, was on the first board of the John Lusk Center School at USC, and advisory board of the Anderson Graduate School at UCLA. He now serves on the advisory board of the Ernest Hahn Chair in real estate studies at the University of San Diego.
He is advisor to San Diego State University's Community Economic Development board and lectures for it. He chairs the regional board of the Eureka Communities, which creates scholarships for heads of community non-profits; served as consultant to Morris Knudson on the regional Magnet-Levitation rapid transit proposal.
He has lectured at the Harvard Graduate School of Business and MIT.
He has pioneered several extension courses throughout the University of California system, including a myriad of real estate and economic subjects.
He conducted annual studies on "youth and housing preferences".
He is a regular featured columnist "Perspective on Real Estate" for the San Diego Daily Transcript and wrote the "Real Estate Dynamics" column for Professional Builder Magazine for over 20 years.
He authored the monthly featured column, Critic at Large, for the New York based national Real Estate Forum magazine. He has written over 2000 published articles and has received every professional award for predicting every major trend which has occurred in the field of real estate. His clientele is international and leading edge. He is featured writer for the largest real estate publication, The New England and New York Real Estate Journal, the largest publication of its kind, as well as San Diego Metropolitan Magazine, and a featured writer for The Institutional Research Reports. He has written or co-authored several books on land use and real estate subjects, including the best seller, Goodkin's Guide to Winning at Real Estate—selected by two book-of-the-month clubs, as well as land economics, commercial condominiums, and high-density housing development.
He was named the most popular author in San Diego County, visionary of the year, man of the year by the Building Industry Association, two citations by President Franklin D. Roosevelt,and two writing awards for a series on land planning, for Professional Builder Magazine and by the National Association of Real Estate Editors for a series on affordable housing for the San Diego Union Tribune. He has written the largest circulated newsletter, The Web Apartment Reporter, for the past 25 years.
Sanford Goodkin did the first Goals research program for the City of Los Angeles, serves as charter member of the San Diego County Housing Finance Agency, appointed to the Mayor's blue ribbon committee to research stadium expansion, was key-noter for the first conference on Convention Centers in Japan, was special delegate to the Congress of Architects and Engineers for three years, Director of the Industrialized Building and Exposition convention for three years, created the first conference on churches and new towns, did the first large community studies in Sacramento and Marin County. He did national strategic planning studies for the Del Web organization.
He has been married to Frances since 1950, has three children, four grandkids, a cat and one bird.
He was named one of 24 Outstanding Citizens of the West, by Sunset Magazine.
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