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Housing’s Search for Balance
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Agenda13:00 - 13:30EDT
What’s happening in existing home sales right now? Can a recovery gather steam without lower rates?
- Impacts of technology on brokerage and brokers: have the key sales agent skills changed, or are marketing and selling skills still priority one?
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SpeakersEdmond DeForest Senior Vice President, Business & Consumer Services, Corporate Finance Moody's Ratings
Susan Yannaccone President & CEO Anywhere Brands and Anywhere Advisors
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Ed DeForest is a Senior Vice President on the Technology and Services team. Ed covers a portfolio of services and software companies in a range of verticals.
Ed joined Moody’s in February, 2012 from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he shared responsibility for leading a team of examiners reviewing the wholesale loan portfolios of the 10 largest New York-based banks. Prior to his work at the Fed, Ed was a managing director with D.B. Zwirn, where he was the global head of asset management. While there, Ed managed the credit and illiquid risk department, with a portfolio of about $5 billion of assets under management. Ed also worked for 19 years at JPMorgan Chase, in both the credit and lending and the investment banking departments, covering a range of companies in the Technology, Telecommunications, Cable TV, Publishing and Broadcasting sectors. Ed has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.B.A. is from Carnegie Mellon University
Sue Yannaccone is President and Chief Executive Officer for Anywhere Brands and Anywhere Advisors, responsible for overseeing both company-owned brokerage and franchise operations across the company’s six storied brands, including Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate, CENTURY 21®, Coldwell Banker®, Corcoran®, ERA® and Sotheby’s International Realty®.
Originally assuming leadership of Anywhere Brands (formerly Realogy Franchise Group) in 2020, Yannaccone is recognized for her nearly two decades of deep expertise in franchise management and real estate brokerage operations. Prior to her current role, she served as Regional Executive Vice President of the Eastern Seaboard and Midwest regions of Coldwell Banker Realty. Prior to that, Yannaccone joined ERA as its Chief Operating Officer in July 2015 before moving to its President and Chief Executive Officer in September 2016.
A strong believer in accountability and authenticity, Yannaccone possesses a keen understanding of the residential real estate industry and has extensive experience leading organizations through transformational change. Previously, Yannaccone held a significant position as Senior Vice President of network services for HSF Affiliates, responsible for all affiliate-facing servicing for the real estate brokerage networks Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Prudential Real Estate and Real Living Real Estate. She was also Vice President of Operations for Real Living from 2010 to 2012.
A leading influencer in the real estate industry’s most notable rankings, Yannaccone has been regularly recognized in the Swanepoel Power 200 – including its Top 40 Women Executives – as well as RISMedia’s Real Estate Newsmakers, Inman Influencers and HousingWire’s Women of Influence. In 2016, she was named a Female Executive of the Year by the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and highlighted as a “Woman Worth Watching” by the Profiles in Diversity Journal. She is also the founder of What Moves Her, an industry advocacy organization focused on empowering women leaders in real estate.
A graduate of Clemson University, she began her career in commercial real estate before assuming roles with residential real estate firm GMAC HomeServices and Brookfield Residential Property Services in Canada.
Ed DeForest is a Senior Vice President on the Technology and Services team. Ed covers a portfolio of services and software companies in a range of verticals.
Ed joined Moody’s in February, 2012 from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he shared responsibility for leading a team of examiners reviewing the wholesale loan portfolios of the 10 largest New York-based banks. Prior to his work at the Fed, Ed was a managing director with D.B. Zwirn, where he was the global head of asset management. While there, Ed managed the credit and illiquid risk department, with a portfolio of about $5 billion of assets under management. Ed also worked for 19 years at JPMorgan Chase, in both the credit and lending and the investment banking departments, covering a range of companies in the Technology, Telecommunications, Cable TV, Publishing and Broadcasting sectors. Ed has a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.B.A. is from Carnegie Mellon University
Sue Yannaccone is President and Chief Executive Officer for Anywhere Brands and Anywhere Advisors, responsible for overseeing both company-owned brokerage and franchise operations across the company’s six storied brands, including Better Homes and Gardens® Real Estate, CENTURY 21®, Coldwell Banker®, Corcoran®, ERA® and Sotheby’s International Realty®.
Originally assuming leadership of Anywhere Brands (formerly Realogy Franchise Group) in 2020, Yannaccone is recognized for her nearly two decades of deep expertise in franchise management and real estate brokerage operations. Prior to her current role, she served as Regional Executive Vice President of the Eastern Seaboard and Midwest regions of Coldwell Banker Realty. Prior to that, Yannaccone joined ERA as its Chief Operating Officer in July 2015 before moving to its President and Chief Executive Officer in September 2016.
A strong believer in accountability and authenticity, Yannaccone possesses a keen understanding of the residential real estate industry and has extensive experience leading organizations through transformational change. Previously, Yannaccone held a significant position as Senior Vice President of network services for HSF Affiliates, responsible for all affiliate-facing servicing for the real estate brokerage networks Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Prudential Real Estate and Real Living Real Estate. She was also Vice President of Operations for Real Living from 2010 to 2012.
A leading influencer in the real estate industry’s most notable rankings, Yannaccone has been regularly recognized in the Swanepoel Power 200 – including its Top 40 Women Executives – as well as RISMedia’s Real Estate Newsmakers, Inman Influencers and HousingWire’s Women of Influence. In 2016, she was named a Female Executive of the Year by the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and highlighted as a “Woman Worth Watching” by the Profiles in Diversity Journal. She is also the founder of What Moves Her, an industry advocacy organization focused on empowering women leaders in real estate.
A graduate of Clemson University, she began her career in commercial real estate before assuming roles with residential real estate firm GMAC HomeServices and Brookfield Residential Property Services in Canada.