Real Estate

Robin Boswell

Associate Director, Graduate Student Career & Professional Development
Graduate Programs

Robin Boswell has over 20 years of experience in professional and career development services in education, corporate and consulting settings. Robin specializes in consulting graduate business students on career goals, job search strategies and professional development.Robin is able to demystify the job search process for her clients while adding some clarity, strategy and science to […]

Yongqiang Chu

Director, Childress Klein Distinguished Professor of Real Estate and Urban Economics
Childress Klein Center for Real Estate, Finance

Yongqiang Chu is the Director of the Childress Klein Center for Real Estate and Childress Klein Distinguished Professor of Real Estate and Urban Economics and Professor of Finance at the UNC Charlotte Belk College of Business. Chu conducts research in real estate, corporate finance, and banking. His research has appeared in many top finance, real […]

Scott Coblentz

Faculty, part-time
Finance
Dubois Center 720

Shannon Cooke

CKCRE & Real Estate Graduate Program Specialist
Graduate Programs
Dubois Center 721, Friday 147

Craig A. Depken, II

Department Chair and Professor
Economics

Dr. Craig A. Depken, II joined the Belk College of Business in August 2007. Previous to coming to UNC Charlotte, he was an associate professor of economics at the University of Texas at Arlington. Dr. Depken has taught a wide variety of applied economics courses, including econometrics, international economics and industrial organization. He has a […]

Lorna Renee Franklin-Hill

Faculty, adjunct
Childress Klein Center for Real Estate

(Lorna) Renée Franklin Hill joined the Belk College of Business faculty as a part-time instructor in January of 2021. Prior to this time Renee Hill served in a number of administrative and faculty positions over a combined twenty-four year tenure at North Carolina Central University School of Law and Charlotte School of Law. She has […]

Suzanne Leland

Professor, faculty affiliate
Political Science and Public Administration

Dr. Leland is an expert on city-county consolidation and public transportation policy and her recent research focuses on the role of public-private partnership in real estate development as well as understands planners’ and economic developers’ perceptions regarding land-use regulations. Dr. Leland is the Director of the Masters in Public Administration program. Degrees: Expertise: Websites: Papers:

Chandler Lutz

Associate Professor & Ott Distinguished Scholar in Real Estate
Finance

Chandler Lutz is an Associate Professor of Finance and the Steven Ott Distinguished Scholar in Real Estate in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte. He also is a research fellow at the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate. His research employs econometric, statistical, and machine learning methods in the study of housing markets, labor […]

Kimberly McLaurin

Assistant Director of Enrollment, MSRE, MAFI + MSEcon
Graduate Programs

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