Kenneth R Trepeta Esq.
Director - Real Estate Services
Ken has been the Director of Real Estate Services for the National Association of Realtors® since June of 2007. In this role he is charged with covering the broader real estate industry for NAR. Prior to this, Ken was the Regulatory Policy Representative for NAR handling Regulatory and Administration relations on business issues and federal housing policy.
From 2005 to April 2006, Ken was a Vice President for Government Relations at JP Morgan Chase where he tracked tax policy, housing and mortgage issues, and legal reform issues as well as special projects.
From 2002 to 2005, Ken was Vice President for Government Relations at the Financial Services Forum where he led successful efforts to change the tax code with regard to capital gains and dividends and reform the nation's class action laws. Using his extensive personal background in the housing and mortgage industries, Ken was also in charge of policy analysis for all housing and related financial and tax policy for the Forum and its President and CEO (himself the former Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity).
In 2001 and 2002 Ken was the Deputy Executive Director of the Commission on Affordable Housing and Health Facility Needs for Seniors in the 21st Century. In that role, he was responsible for drafting the commission report to Congress, organizing field hearings, press, and managing the content of the website.
Prior to his appointment to the commission, Ken spent over five years as counsel to former Representative Rick Lazio (R-NY). He handled special projects and teamed with the Congressman's legislative staff to develop and secure appropriations projects. Ken also did work on behalf of the Congressman across the entire spectrum of federal, state, and local issues including housing, the environment, community redevelopment, energy, technology, law enforcement, and taxes. Ken took a leave of absence and joined the Congressman's Senate campaign where he was a senior policy advisor on federal issues. In that capacity, he helped develop economic aid, tax, housing, and education plans.
Ken has a bachelor of arts in economics, political science, and law and society from the State University of New York at Binghamton (1992). He has a juris doctor from Hofstra University School of Law (1995) and is a member of the bar in New York and the District of Columbia.
