A long-time leader of popular real estate portal Homes.com, Mele continues to lead the portal under CoStar Group. He is leading that firm’s high-profile leap into the residential sales side of real estate, which includes a significant war chest to support an aggressive marketing strategy, a playbook it has used to achieve portal leadership in other industries. He will have a growing presence in the industry as Homes.com is poised to launch its revamped agent products in 2024.