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Office of the Chief Economist

Lawrence Yun, Ph.D.    Dr. Yun is the Chief Economist for the National Association of Realtors®.  For more on Dr. Yun's background, click here >

Caroline Van Hollen     Caroline is the Senior Research & Strategic Planning Coordinator.  Her responsibilities include writing and editing the NAR Strategic Plan on an annual basis and working on the Research Division's budget.

Survey and Market Research

Paul Bishop, Ph.D            Paul C. Bishop Ph.D. is the Vice President of Research and leads the Research Division’s survey and market research activities including analysis of real estate business and policy issues.

Arun Barman                      Arun Barman works on a variety of housing related issues including ranging from environmental efficiency to jumbo mortgages to mortgage fraud. He also works on several of NAR's surveys and brings experience analyzing federal economic data     

Stephanie Davis                Stephanie Davis is the Staff Assistant.  She provides administrative support and office management, organizes and implement meeting logistics for the Research Division.

Ken Fears                          Ken Fears is the Manager of Regional Economics.  He focuses on regional and local market trends found in the Local Market Reports and the Market Watch Reports . He also writes on developments in the mortgage industry and foreclosures.

Danielle Hale                     As a Research Economist at NAR, Danielle studies tax issues, the wealth impact of home ownership, and different measures of home prices.

Jessica Lautz                    Jessica Lautz is a Research Economist. Jessica analyzes data and writes annual studies such as the Member Profile, the Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, and the Commercial Member Profile.

Selma Lewis                      Selma Lewis, Research Economist, regularly monitors and writes columns on latest academic research in housing and urban economics, foreclosures, international housing markets, and demographic trends. Selma also reports on federal and state metropolitan planning policy impacts.

Quantitative Research: International, Commercial, and Existing-Home Sales

Jed Smith                           Jed Smith is Managing Director, Quantitative Research with the National Association of Realtors®. He has worked on real estate issues for the past 20 years, providing input on a variety of housing, commercial real estate, tax, and planning issues. Recently he has been involved in several international studies.

Wannasiri Chompoopet   Wannasiri Chompoopet is the Manager of Housing Statistics. She is responsible for producing housing indicators that are widely used in the industry, as well as in forecasts of overall U.S. economic activity. She has been directly involved in the development of NAR's Existing-Home Sales (EHS) Data Series.

Keunwon Chung                 Statistical Economist

Michael Hyman                   Research Assistant 

George Ratiu                      George Ratiu, Research Economist,  writes regular economic columns and conducts research in the areas of commercial real estate, international investments, mortgage performance and foreclosures.  He produces NAR’s Commercial Real Estate Outlook and  manages quantitative surveys, including the Commercial Real Estate Quarterly Market Survey.

Gregg Stratton                    Gregg Stratton primarily focuses on generating new and recurring data products summarizing regional housing trends. In addition, Gregg works extensively with the acquisition and maintenance of data.    

Business Operations and Communications

Thomas Doyle                    TJ Doyle, Marketing and Communications Manager, works on marketing the products and services the Research Division produces to members and non-members alike. TJ is the main contact for the Research products involved in the "Right Tools, Right Now" campaign. He also oversees Research's social media presence, focused on promoting NAR Research to members, the media, government affairs and other industry groups.

Meredith Dunn                     Meredith Dunn, Research Communications Representative, manages Real Estate INSIGHTS, the Research Update, and assists in managing Research content on Realtor.org as well as on various social media sites.  She also produces video content for the multimedia portion of the Research site.

Sophia Stuart                      Sophia Stuart, Marketing Associate, assists in the design and production of Research informational materials, content on realtor.org and some social media sites. She can be contacted regarding custom data requests, Market Watch, or other survey related questions.