We’re joined by Jonathan Smoke from Realtor.com (a Move.Com subsidiary) to discuss the July housing report and the state of America’s real estate economy. Smoke is the 20-year veteran of the real estate industry, and recently became the first chief economist for Realtor.com.
“Jonathan is a highly respected housing economist and has proven himself as a leader and a strategic thinker in creating innovative data and analytics related to housing,” said National Association of REALTORS® Chief Economist, Lawrence Yun.
For the past six years, Smoke has served in key executive roles for Hanley Wood, a premier information, media, event, and strategic marketing services company serving the residential, commercial design and construction industries. Prior to that, he founded BlueSmoke, LLC of Atlanta, a housing market research company that provided services to a variety of real estate industry companies and operated the website HousingIntelligence.com and RatingInsights.com.
Smoke earned a masters degree in business administration in 1994 from the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor of arts degree in economics and religious studies from Rhodes College.
