William Noble Kinnard

Background

Kinnard, William Noble was born on September 12, 1926 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of William Noble and Alice C. (Dalton) Kinnard.

Education

He received a bachelor"s degree with honors in economics from Swarthmore College, an Master of Business Administration in finance from the Wharton School and, later, a Doctor of Philosophy in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Career

He taught at Wesleyan University before becoming director of Urban Redevelopment for the City of Middletown. Doctor Kinnard was an emeritus professor of finance and real estate at the University of Connecticut. He joined the faculty there in 1955, eventually chairing the Finance Department and serving as Associate Dean and Acting Dean before retiring in 1981.

He was also the Director of the Institute of Urban Research and the Founding Director of the Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics.

A real estate scholarship and a Professorship in Real Estate and Finance are sponsored at UConn in his name. He also taught as a Visiting Professor at the University of Florida, University of California, Los Angeles, and Brown.

The Appraisal Institute annually gives the Kinnard Award in his honor to the leading real estate appraisal educator in the United States. After his death, the American Real Estate Society and the Appraisal Institute co-published the text Essays in Honor of Kinnard, Junior. as a memorial. Contributing editors and authors constitute a cross-section of the leading real estate appraisal experts in the world.

He was widely regarded as one of the leading authors, lecturers, and experts on the topic of real estate valuation.

His text, Income Property Valuation, published in 1971, is still considered a classic in the field Altogether, he authored or co-authored thirty-five texts and manuals and innumerable refereed journal articles, manuscripts, and essays starting in 1956 and continuing actively until his death in 2001. Doctor Kinnard was awarded professional designations from the Society of Real Estate Appraisers, the American Institute of Real Estate Appraisers, the American Society of Appraisers, the Institute of Property Taxation, the American Institute of Corporate Asset Management, and the National Association of Realtors.

He was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, Pi Gamma Mu, and Phi Kappa Phi honor societies.

He was a Fellow of the Homer Hoyt Institute.

Achievements

• William Noble Kinnard has been listed as a noteworthy Property valuation consultant by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Industrial Real Estate (Second Edition)
  • Appraising Real Property
  • Appraising Real Property
  • Industrial Real Estate

Interests

• Avocation: crossword puzzles.

Connections

Married Iris Costikyan, June 11. 1949; children: Susan Jones, Jeffrey B.

Father:

William Noble Kinnard

Mother:

Alice C. (Dalton) Kinnard

Spouse:

Iris Costikyan

child:

Jeffrey B. Kinnard

child:

Susan Jones Kinnard