San Antonio CRE Veteran Re-elected to National Board of Directors for CCIM Institute

SAN ANTONIO - Dec. 9, 2014 - PRLog -- SAN ANTONIO/CHICAGO – Dec. 9, 2014 – Ernest L. Brown, IV, CCIM, a managing director in the San Antonio office of Kennedy Wilson’s Brokerage Group, a global real estate investment and services company, has been re-elected to the national board of directors of the CCIM Institute, an international real estate organization that serves 10,000 members located in the U.S. and 31 additional countries, for the 2015-2016 term.

Brown, who has been involved in CCIM for more than 20years, has served in both regional and national capacities at the Institute level including regional vice president, chairman of chapter activities as well as having served as a member of the San Antonio/South Texas chapter board of directors for more than seven years.

A 30-year industry veteran, Brown specializes in investment transaction, selling, leasing and managing properties for public, private and institutional investors.

Brown joins 15 other recently elected industry veterans on the board, which serves as the governing body for the Institute and convenes at the organization’s spring and fall business meetings.

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About Kennedy Wilson

Founded in 1977, Kennedy Wilson is a vertically integrated global real estate investment and services company headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA, with 25 offices in the U.S., U.K., Ireland, Spain, Jersey and Japan. The company, on its own or with partners, invests opportunistically in a variety of real estate related investments, including commercial, multifamily, loan purchases and originations, residential, and hotels. Kennedy Wilson offers a comprehensive array of real estate services including investment management, property services, auction, conventional sales, brokerage and research. For further information on Kennedy Wilson, please visit www.kennedywilson.com.

About the CCIM Institute

Since 1969, the Chicago-based CCIM Institute has conferred the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) designation to commercial real estate and allied professionals through an extensive curriculum of 160 classroom hours and professional experiential requirements. The core curriculum addresses financial analysis, market analysis, user decision analysis, investment analysis, and negotiation—the cornerstones of commercial investment real estate.

An affiliate of the National Association of Realtors®, the CCIM Institute also provides members with powerful technology tools including the Site To Do Business, an online site analysis and demographics resource.

Currently, there are nearly 10,000 CCIMs in 1,000 U.S. markets and 31 additional countries, with another 3,000 practitioners pursuing the designation, making the Institute one of the largest commercial real estate networks in the world. Visit www.ccim.com for more information.