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#NAREE2027 Will Be Headquartered at the Hyatt Regency Hotel Austin
Save the Dates: June 21 - 24, 2027
Expect NAREE University’s peer-to-peer career development workshop sessions (details will post under the Events Tab) and industry trends sessions with leading commercial and residential real estate experts. NAREE President Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times; NAREE Vice President Suzann Silverman, CPE/MHN; NAREE Secretary Candace Taylor, Wall Street Journal; and Past Presidents Aldo Svaldi,Denver Post and Ralph Bivins, Realty News Report and NAREE Conference Advisor, among others are being tapped for session ideas. Members are welcome to email NAREE Executive Director Mary Doyle-Kimball as well. Sessions will run Monday, June 21 to Wednesday, June 24 at the Austin Hyatt Regency on the river overlooking in downtown.
Real Estate industry speakers at the June 2026 conference in Miami included the Midyear Home Building Outlook with Rob Dietz, Chief Economist, National Association of Home Builders (NAHB); NAREE’s traditional economic trends panel with NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun; a panel on Vertical Urbanism with Edgardo Defortuna, Fortune International Group and a conversation with New Urbanism co-founder Andres Duany.
In 2027 both NAREE’s Meet the Press and NAREE’s 77th Annual Real Estate Journalism Awards presentation will be held on Wednesday, June 23.
A number of other prominent professionals were on-stage at the NAREE conference in MIami, including:
Architect Paul Whalen, FAIA, partner at Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA); Florida realty broker, Maile Aguila, The Agency; Danny Finkle, senior managing director, Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL); Caitlin Sagrue Walter, economist, head of research and innovation, National Multifamily Housing Counsel (NMHC); and Brian Gale, vice chairman, Cushman & Wakefield. The full 2026 agenda is under the Events tab.————————————————————————————————————————
The portal to enter NAREE’s 77th Annual Real Journalism Competition will be open from February 1 through the March 1, 2027 entry deadline. Each year ndependent journalists can enter work published, posted, or aired in the previous year. Thirty categories recognize excellence in commercial and residential real estate. Overall awards for freelancers, young journalists, consumer watchdog reporting and more are presented at NAREE’s annual Conference. The 2026 winners were announced June 3 at the Kimpton Epic. Go to the Awards Tab for more information.
2026 WINNERS OF NAREE’S 76TH ANNUAL JOURNALISM COMPETITION WERE RECOGNIZED AT THE KIMPTON EPIC HOTEL IN MIAMI.
#NAREE2026
NAREE’s 60th annual real estate journalism conference was headquartered at the Kimpton Epic hotel in downtown Miami.
NAREE University
Recordings of NAREE University sessions are posted in the Members Only section, including the three-part Data Analysis Series for Real Estate Journalists. You can also find recordings on Award-winning E-Newsletters, Producing Real Estate Podcasts, Reporting on Social Justice issues in Commercial Real Estate, Investigative Reporting Insights for real estate journalists.
Journalism Awards
Save your 2026 stories for NAREES 77th Annual journalism Competition - Portal opens on February 1, 2027. Deadline to enter: March 1, 2027 11:59 PM EST. Entries will be judged by professors of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Categories are listed on the Journalism Competition page and can be accessed from the Awards tab.
Upcoming Events
Is your news organization hiring? Members can post an ad for free and the posting will be periodically promoted to NAREE’s network of journalists. Post an ad quickly, easily, and for free (for NAREE members only) here. To get the code, members, check your email for the latest NAREE E-news.
Are you looking for a job? Check out NAREE’s job board, geared to journalists covering real estate here.
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