Founded 1955

A Historic Company

Kendar Realty, Inc. is a full-scale brokerage firm representing clients in selling and leasing of commercial properties operated by Chairman and President Kenneth D. Rosen, CCIM. It was founded by J. M. Rosen in 1955.

At one time it employed 30 sales agents. Today it is a one man firm operated by Kenneth D. Rosen, CCIM.

Ken is a successful Realtor, real estate investor, author, educator, condo conversion pioneer, prominent member of the South Florida real estate industry, and a civic activist.

Ken, who is the President of Kendar Realty, Inc., has bought, sold, and brokered over $900 million worth of investment properties. He has conducted over 150 seminars before local, state, and national audiences.

He has written five books the latest of which is Investing in Income
Properties: The Big Six Formula for Achieving Wealth in Real Estate Third
Edition, and released in May 2021.

Ken converted 1,700 units in 22 apartment complexes to become the state of Florida’s leader in that area. Kendar Realty, Inc. handled the brokerage of the units in cooperation with other Miami brokers.

Ken served two terms as president of the Miami Association of Realtors and is the recipient of several awards, including “Realtor of the Year”.

Ken served on the Dade County Planning Advisory Board and was Chairman of the South Florida Council of Real Estate Boards.

The Florida Association of Realtors named him a “Hometown Hero” for his volunteer work as a guardian ad litem for neglected, abused, and abandoned children.

Ken sails and is a 30 year volunteer skipper with Shake-a Leg Miami, an organization through which he teaches children with disabilities how to sail on Biscayne Bay.

He is a graduate of Boston University, a 32nd degree Mason, Past Master of his Masonic Lodge, and a Shriner. He is married to Ellen Kempler and has seven children and five grandchildren.