Steve Harney

CEO
Steve Harney Inc.

Steve Harney is a residential real estate expert and trainer. A 26-year industry veteran, he is founder and CEO of Steve Harney Inc., a negotiation and leadership training firm for real estate professionals. He authors Keeping Current Matters, a subscription-based monthly report containing real estate advice and market information. Harney developed his own real estate firm in May 1995, growing it to more than 450 agents and 11 offices before its acquisition... by NRT in August 2003.

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Stan Humphries

Chief Economist
Zillow.com

As chief economist at Zillow.com, Stan Humphries helped create the algorithm for the company's automated property "Zestimates," and is also in charge of calculating housing market statistics including the Zillow Home Value Index. Before joining Zillow, Humphries spent five years at Expedia.com where he ran a team responsible for finding innovative ways to use data, building systems for personalization, pricing, forecasting, and fraud detection. His career... also includes stints at the University of Virginia, where he was a researcher and faculty member, and NASA, where he negotiated international science agreements. Humphries also taught physics and chemistry classes in West Africa with the Peace Corps.

Twitter: @StanHumphries

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Brian Larson

Managing Member
Larson/Sobotka PLLC

Brian N. Larson is managing member of the law firm of Larson/Sobotka PLLC and president of Larson/Sobotka Business Advisors LLC. The Minneapolis-based firms provide advice to MLSs, Realtor associations, real estate brokers and other businesses. Larson has advised numerous MLSs regarding strategic and legal implications of listing syndication and data licensing through partners such as RPR, CoreLogic and others. As a consultant, he provides strategy and... operations advice. During 2010, Larson has focused on two consulting initiatives: MLS Domains Association, an effort by MLSs to apply for and obtain their own top-level domain on the Internet (.MLS), and Effective MLS Market Solutions (EMMS), a program funded by the National Association of Realtors to help groups of MLSs find ways to work together to better serve their subscribers.

Twitter: @blarsonmpls

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Bill Lublin

CEO
Century 21 Advantage Gold Institute

Bill Lublin is the CEO of Century 21 Advantage Gold, one of the largest brokerages in the country, according to Real Trends. He is also the founder and CEO of the Social Media Marketing Institute, which offers training programs in social network marketing and worked with the National Association of Realtors to develop a new curriculum for the e-PRO certification program, which offers training to real estate professionals in the use of technology to better... serve and engage with consumers. He also has served as a member of NAR's Professional Standards Committee and Risk Management Committee. In 2011, he will serve as vice chairman for NAR's Risk Management and License Law Forum.

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Nicolas P. Retsinas

Director Emeritus
Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University

A former federal housing commissioner during the Clinton administration, Nicolas P. Retsinas is director emeritus of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, which produces The State of the Nation's Housing, an annual report detailing national housing statistics, ranging from income levels and housing costs to demographic trends and construction activity. Retsinas also teaches housing finance and real estate in emerging markets at the... Harvard Business School. And he has served as director of the Office of Thrift Supervision and as a member of both the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and Federal Housing Finance boards. He also serves on the board of directors of Community Development Trust Inc., Freddie Mac and the Center for Responsible Lending. He joined JCHS in 1998.

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Robert J. Shiller

Economist, Author
Yale University

Robert Shiller is a professor of economics at Yale University and co-founder and chief economist of MacroMarkets LLC. Shiller co-founded home-price research company Case-Shiller Weiss Inc. in 1991, later bought by Fiserv Inc. in 2002. The firm developed the U.S. Home Price Indices, now managed by Standard & Poor's and followed across the real estate industry. Shiller is the author of several books, including "Market Volatility," "Irrational Exuberance,"... and most recently, "The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial Markets."

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Mark Zandi

Chief Economist
Moody's Analytics

Policymakers, elected officials and the media often call on Mark Zandi for insight on the economy. Zandi frequently testifies before Congress, has provided advice to the Obama administration, and served as economic advisor to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign. Known for his insight into the causes of mortgage foreclosure and personal bankruptcy, Zandi has also analyzed the economic impact of tax and government spending policies. He's often consulted... on ways to minimize the impacts of the financial crisis, and on measures that could prevent risky asset bubbles from forming again. He's currently working on a follow-up to his book, "Financial Shock," an exposé of the financial crisis. The new book, "Paying the Price," will attempt to provide a roadmap for meeting the nation's daunting fiscal challenges. Zandi conducted his doctoral research with Gerard Adams and Nobel laureate Lawrence Klein at the University of Pennsylvania.

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