Dr. Stan Longhofer is a Professor of Real Estate and Finance in the Barton School of Business at Wichita State University. He was the founding director of the Center for Real Estate, a position he held for 25 years until stepping down in the summer of 2025. In this role, he provided research services and educational programs to real estate professionals throughout the region and was the author of the Center’s annual Kansas Housing Markets Forecast.
Dr. Longhofer’s insights regarding real estate market conditions are widely quoted in local and national media outlets, including the Economist, Forbes, USA Today, and the Christian Science Monitor, and he has been featured as an op-ed columnist in the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal’s online edition.
Dr. Longhofer earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois and worked as an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland prior to coming to WSU.
Because of his deep engagement with real estate professionals throughout the region, the Realtors of South Central Kansas recognized Dr. Longhofer as their 2019 Citizen of the Year, and in 2021 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Kansas CCIM Chapter and WSU Center for Real Estate for his contributions to the commercial real estate industry in Wichita.
Office: 308S Woolsey Hall
Phone: (316) 978-7163
Email: stan.longhofer@wichita.edu
Complete curriculum vitae
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| Degrees | Ph.D. in Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1995 M.S. in Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 1991 B.B.A. in Economics, Wichita State University, 1989 |
| Research Interests | Real Estate Markets Housing Market Dynamics Land Valuation |
| Teaching Interests | Mortgages and Mortgage Markets Real Estate Investment Analysis Real Estate Valuation Principles of Real Estate |