Brad Hunter   Natl. Dir. Consulting

8895 North Military Trail, Suite 303B
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
Phone: 561.228.8001 x501

Brad Hunter is Metrostudy’s Chief Economist and National Director of Consulting. Hunter spearheads Metrostudy’s current work with the national development community as well as investment firms. He supervises the bulk of the company’s multi-market studies, and has orchestrated hundreds of site-specific or area-specific housing market studies over the past twenty-plus years of his career. He oversees the company’s fast-growing private equity and hedge fund consulting practice.

With 23 years’ experience in real estate analysis and local market economics, Hunter is an active member of the Urban Land Institute, has authored numerous articles and chapters in ULI-published books, including Market Profiles, and he chairs various committees, and will be moderating a discussion panel at the upcoming ULI Fall Meeting in Miami. Hunter serves on the Housing Market Forecast Panel for the Housing Market Report alongside other prominent national housing economists. He is regularly cited in local and national journals including recent interviews by the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg News (including regular monthly commentary on Bloomberg radio “On the Money,” hosted by Charlie Stein). Hunter graduated in 1985 from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in economics and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard University.

Prior to joining Metrostudy, he was president of Powers-Hunter Group, a real estate consulting firm based in Fort Lauderdale. From 1988 to 1991, he was vice president and chief economist for Goodkin Research Corporation. During the 1980s, he served as a regional economist with Data Resources(DRI)/McGraw-Hill, producing all of the firm’s forecasts regarding population, employment and housing for the southeastern United States. While at DRI, Hunter authored several chapters of Metro Insights, published by McGraw-Hill, covering key economic and demographic aspects of the Top 100 MSAs in the country.