Barton serves as the public face and the strategic dynamo behind Zillow Group, which remains the industry’s dominant portal company, with a monthly average of over 150 million unique visitors for much of 2024, more than double its nearest competitor, according to Similarweb data. The real estate media and tech company reported nearly $1.7 billion in revenue for the first nine months of 2024, which included notable growth in its lead gen, mortgage and rentals divisions. Revenue in its residential division (its biggest), dominated by its Premier Agent business and its growing referral-based approach, grew over 8% in this period in 2024 over 2023. In 2024, he handed his CEO role to Jeremy Wacksman, but very much remains the firm’s mastermind.

Florance deepened his formidable company’s entree into residential real estate sales with continued, deep investments in Homes.com, which included a $1 billion marketing campaign and the roll-out of a subscription product for real estate agents. Through the third quarter, the portal has reported 11,000 agent subscribers and has recorded over $41 million in revenue, nearly as much as its full 2023 revenue total. He is putting more of Costar Group’s fuel into Homes.com, and he’s pressing down the gas pedal. This includes his active presence at industry events and in media and in the 2024 acquisition of significant virtual tour software in Matterport, which could significantly deepen and enrich Homes.com’s property data.

Wacksman took over the CEO spot from company co-founder Rich Barton in August 2024. As the company settles into its post-iBuying era, Wacksman has emerged as the person who will continue the firm’s vision to deepen its relationship with its massive audience to convert more of them into referrals for its partner agents and to capture more of those who do transact as customers of its mortgage business. He oversees the industry’s dominant portal in Zillow, which attracts approximately twice the number of visitors each month than real estate’s next most popular portal.

Now in his second year at the helm of Move, which operates Realtor.com, Eales is working to achieve the same success he saw turning REA Group’s realestate.com.au into Australia’s dominant real estate portal. He has proven a fierce competitor and savvy leader, as he works to solidify his portal’s position amid the entrance of a dynamic and well-resourced competitor in Homes.com. In 2024, Eales increased Realtor.com’s marketing spending, which included a successful campaign highlighting the value of buyer’s agents by listing all they do. Eales also deepened his industry presence and his influence at events and in interviews in 2024.

A multidimensional leader who owns a variety of real estate brokerages, technology and training platforms, Kinney made a huge leap into real estate teams by co-launching Place in 2020. The platform, which provides back-office and other key support to teams across 49 U.S. states and Canada, in 2024 added the team servicing platform Livian to its all-in-one technology, business, and consumer services platform. Kinney also runs the Built How event and podcast series, which highlights real estate leaders sharing how they achieved their success.

Skousen leads Inside Real Estate, maker of kvCore, an end-to-end platform featuring an integrated website, CRM and marketing system used by over 400,000 agents. The product, used by brokerages and teams as well as individual agents, has become a leader in the end-to-end platform space. In 2024, the company united its portfolio of products under the new BoldTrail brand and deepened its tech partnership with Re/Max that brings its tech to the brand’s franchisees in the U.S. and Canada.

Samuelson serves as Zillow’s key voice and strategist when it comes to industry relations. With over 25 years of experience in the technology and real estate sectors, he brings a wealth of knowledge and deep relationships to his role. Prior to joining Zillow in 2014, he served as president of Realtor.com.

Leading brokerage tech company Lone Wolf Technologies since 2019, Kelly has consistently looked to expand the firm’s product portfolio. After spending the past four years acquiring several other technology firms — including those covering digital marketing, CRM, transaction management, business insights and more product areas — Lone Wolf announced in July 2024 the launch of its Lone Wolf Foundation bringing all its offerings together into one complete platform. Lone Wolf also signed up two large MLSs for enterprise deals in 2024 in Arizona Regional MLS and Northern Nevada Regional MLS.

Tager runs real estate digital marketing company Ylopo, a popular tool for brokerages, teams and agents to grow their businesses and brands. The company’s outbound AI tool, RAIYA Voice, works to call and convert leads into appointments in conjunction with its text communication tool. In 2024, the firm added MaverickRE, a leading scoring and agent grading digital assistant, and an AI-driven coaching tool. Tager previously founded and ran lead generation service TigerLead Solutions, which Move Inc. bought in 2012.

Berkowitz has led this Austin-based prop tech company since he founded Ojo Labs in 2015. His 2023 move to sell off Canadian operations and secure $200 million in investment played out in 2024 with the firm acquiring The Lead Syndicate agent platform. Combining its national real estate portal, Movoto, and the newly acquired platform, the company launched an all-in-one platform called Lever. This move coincided with Ojo rebranding its consumer and agent-facing products as Movoto.

As founder and CEO of digital transaction management platform SkySlope, Smith leads one of the industry’s leading transaction management platform providers, reportedly serving over 750,000 North American real estate professionals. In 2024, it partnered with CINC to streamline buyer agreement workflow and announced partnerships with NextHome, Bright MLS and Florida-based realMLS.

In 2024, Morwald became president of Constellation Real Estate Group, a new division that encompasses all the real estate offerings of the large holding company Constellation Software. In this role, he oversees Constellation1 – the real estate tech unit that offers a variety of tools including Market Leader, Top Producer and Showcase IDX – and a new distinct real estate data services division. He joined the Toronto, Canada-based real estate tech company in 2019 as director of business development and later worked as its vice president of data services.

Wurzer runs FBS, which offers the popular MLS software Flexmls Platform in its suite of products (including Launch Dashboard, FlōPlan System, and Spark API). Flexmls is used by over 150 MLSs and 200,000 agents. FBS in 2024 added new members including the Northwest Indiana Realtor Association, Great Smoky Mountains Association of Realtors, Mexican Association of Real Estate Professionals and Ulster County Board of Realtors. Wurzer has led the company, first founded in the 1970s by his father, since 1997.

Greene became leader of the global provider of property data and analytics’ real estate business in 2024. The 20-year industry veteran spearheads CoreLogic’s product and go-to-market strategy and leads client relationships with a focus on serving MLS clients. Most recently, the former broker-owner headed up CoreLogic’s Real Estate business segment sales team. Under his leadership, CoreLogic expanded its curated Real Estate Alliance Network offering innovative solutions and tools to MLS members.

As vice chair of ICE Mortgage Technology, Nackashi continues to oversee the digital mortgage technology platform he previously led as CEO of Black Knight. Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) acquired the software, data and analytics provider in September 2023. Nackashi has extensive experience in technology for the mortgage and consumer loan, real estate and capital markets verticals. Prior to his 35 years with Black Knight, Nackashi held leadership roles at Lender Processing Services.

Chen serves as CEO of Lofty, which provides IDX, CRM, lead generation, marketing tools and transaction management in one AI-powered platform. Lofty in 2024 unveiled an AI powered virtual assistant, a property management solution and a lead generation tool while also acquiring real estate CRM solution Firepoint. Along with Lofty, Chen also oversees or advises companies addressing supply chain logistics, advanced semiconductor design and edge computing architecture.

Flachner leads RealScout, which provides agents and their clients with agent-branded home search portals. In 2024, he and his firm led the production and publication of a survey of real estate teams that got industry attention. RealScout also serves brokerages in certain markets through its Buyer Graph offering, which distills aggregated buyer data to determine market insights and ideal pricing.

Erize joined CINC (also known as Commissions Inc.) as chief operating officer in 2016 when Fidelity National Financial acquired the company. In 2017 he transitioned to CEO. Today he oversees the strategic direction of the lead generation and conversion platform for North American agents, teams and brokers. In 2024, CINC teamed up with SkySlope to release new, streamlined buyer agreement workflows and the firm announced RealVerified Leads, which uses two-factor authentication to verify leads registering on CINC IDX websites.

Barber has run Attom Data Solutions as CEO since 2015. The company, which private equity firm Lovell Minnick Partners acquired in 2019, provides national property data including tax, deed, mortgage, foreclosure, natural hazard and more on over 155 million residential and commercial properties in the U.S. Barber remains an active investor and advisor for other real estate-related startups including ClimateCheck, CityBldr and Backflip.

Leck runs Green Seed Technologies, a real estate technology holding company he founded in 2003. The company owns a variety of industry tools including popular real estate dialer RedX and communications platform Wavv. The company has grown to serve agents throughout North America. Leck also works with companies in communications, social media content logistics and tech incubation.

A founding management team member of the showing and market stats software firm ShowingTime, Lane joined Zillow Group as VP of enterprise sales when the portal acquired the company in 2021. He also leads industry sales for the evolving product at Zillow Group, known as ShowingTime+, which includes showing software, offer management, listing media services and more.

Kramer leads the prop tech company he founded in 2016. Luxury Presence provides marketing solutions to a reported customer base of more than 10,000 agents, brokers and teams. In 2024, the company released AI Lead Nurture, an AI-powered tool that interacts with leads to drive them to an appointment request. The firm has raised $52 million since its launch, most recently raising $19 million to develop an AI-powered mobile app known as Copilot.

Carey runs Real Estate Webmasters, which provides websites, lead generation and customer relationship management tools to over 35,000 North American real estate professionals. In 2024, the Vancouver, Canada-based company added budget allocation and transaction reporting features to its platform, launched a new CRM with data visualization and automation features, and a new website feature allowing agents and brokers to display their compensation for their own listings. Carey founded the company in 2004.

Elfman replaced long-time CEO York Bauer at the helm of popular real estate brokerage platform MoxiWorks in June 2024. MoxiWorks, which integrates productivity and data tech offerings with customer relationship management, website builder, recruiting tools and more, is owned by private equity firm Vector Capital and has several large brokerage company investors. The firm reportedly serves more than 800 brokerage and over 500 MLS clients. Elfman remains vice chair of Onit, the enterprise legal solutions firm he co-founded and grew to $100 million in revenue.

Glazer runs Back At You, a real estate tech firm that provides products related to financial reporting, customer relationship management and social media marketing for brokerages and agents. Glazer co-founded the Encino, California-based company in 2011. The firm reports serving over 300 Brokerages and 150,000 agents with its SocialBAY, ClientBAY and FinancialBAY systems.

Minard is entering his 25th year at the helm of Delta Media Group, a real estate technology platform that offers digital marketing tools and services, including the DeltaNet platform. In 2023, the firm released an updated version of its platform with increased automation and AI capabilities. In 2024, it sought to educate the industry by releasing a white paper examining the ubiquity of AI in real estate.

Suarez, along with Ben Kinney, co-founded Place in 2020 as a platform that partners with real estate teams to provide the essential components for them to grow and increase profits. The firm has partnered with over 100 teams across North America and has raised over $100 million in financing. In 2024, Place added the team servicing platform Livian to its all-in-one technology, business and consumer services platform. Suarez is an expansion partner for PDX Property Group and Keller Williams (KW) Xperience Real Estate and owns and operates other KW franchises in the U.S. and Costa Rica.

Foody and Coté founded Cloze in 2012 and today leads the property tech company as its CEO and chief marketing officer, respectively. Their AI-powered sales and marketing software boosts productivity and helps real estate brokerages to build relationships. Cloze’s customer roster includes Windermere, Baird Warner, Brown Harris Stevens, F.C. Tucker, Majestic Realty Collective, Sotheby’s International Realty and more.

Hamidi founded Rechat in 2015 to merge search-to-close operations, a comprehensive marketing suite and mobile transactions in one place. Rechat offers a complete and integrated ecosystem that leverages AI in an innovative way. Rechat announced 2024 partnerships with Pacific Sotheby’s International Realty, Peerage Realty Partners, a six-office Texas brokerage and one of Canada’s largest independent brokers. Hamidi has been involved in real estate-related tech startups since his graduation from the University of Toronto in Canada.

Soderstrom oversees day-to-day operations at Courted. He co-founded the AI-powered talent solutions platform for brokerages in 2021 with Dan Breitbach and Joe Urciuoli, whom he met while focusing on software development and customer experience as a co-leader of McKinsey’s North American Residential Real Estate practice. Soderstrom had previously worked as a startup advisor and led national expansion and growth for Compass in the company’s early years as a small startup.