Elaine Worzala awarded CRE credential from The Counselors of Real Estate

Published: July 13, 2010

Elaine Worzala image by: Clemson University

CLEMSON — The head of Clemson University’s center for real estate development has been awarded the CRE (Counselor of Real Estate) credential by The Counselors of Real Estate, an international group of high-profile real estate practitioners who provide expert advisory services to clients on complex real property- and land-related matters.  

Worzala is director of the Richard H. Pennell Center for Real Estate Development, interim director of the Master of Real Estate Development program and a professor of real estate in the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities at Clemson University. Before joining Clemson, she was the professor and the director of the Accelerated Masters of Science in Real Estate program in the Edward St. John Department or Real Estate at the Carey Business School at Johns Hopkins University.

She also was the Master of Science in Real Estate director and research director at the Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate at the University of San Diego. She began her academic career in the finance department at Colorado State University. She also has been a visiting professor with the Real Estate Center at the University of Connecticut. Worzala has taught numerous real estate courses, including introductory real estate, real estate valuations, real estate feasibility, real estate finance and investments, and a graduate-level real estate investments case course. She was the interim assistant provost for the University of San Diego in 2004-05.

Membership in The Counselors of Real Estate is selective and is extended by invitation only, attesting to the practitioner’s expertise and proven competence in his or her chosen area of real estate. Members receive the CRE credential in recognition of proven superior problem-solving ability.

Once invited to membership, counselors must adhere to a strict Code of Ethics and Standards of Professional Practice. Counselors are recognized in the marketplace as having consistently demonstrated the highest levels of knowledge, experience, integrity and judgment.  

Of more than 150,000 practitioners in commercial real estate today, fewer than 1,200 have been awarded the CRE credential. The Counselors of Real Estate, established in 1953 and headquartered in Chicago, is an international professional organization whose members provide advice and counsel on matters affecting all forms of real property in the United States and abroad. Members include ranking representatives of real estate consulting, financial, legal and accounting firms as well as leaders of Wall Street, government and academia.

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