Presenting NAREE's Board

NAREE Elects Leadership for 2025

Tony Wilbert, a regional editor at CoStar News and a long-time NAREE volunteer, has been elected and installed as 2025 president of the National Association of Real Estate Editors, a non-profit association founded in 1929.

At CoStar News, Wilbert oversees coverage of commercial real estate in the Washington, D.C. and Canadian markets. Tony produces CoStar News’ twice-weekly People and Canadian newsletters. Tony has covered real estate as a staff writer for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Savannah Morning News and Atlanta Business Chronicle, and he served as editor-in-chief of National Real Estate Investor magazine.

NAREE members also voted to elect other members of the board to lead the organization, including Katherine Feser of the Houston Chronicle as Vice  President; Shonda Novak, Austin American-Statesman, Treasurer; and Jeff Ostrowski, Bankrate, Secretary.

Jon Banister, Bisnow; and Suzann Silverman of Commercial Property Executive and Multi-Housing News, were both installed as active members of the board.

Elected as NAREE’s Second Vice President is

Tierre Banks of Veterans United Home Loans. Kris Hudson, CBRE, was elected to serve as an associate director.

NAREE’s 2024 President, Aldo Svaldi of the Denver Post, is now Chairman of the Board and will serve in that position in the year ahead. NAREE owes a debt of gratitude to Aldo for his many hours of volunteer service.

Rotating off the board after significant terms of volunteer service to NAREE were former President Jeff Collins of the Orange County Register; John Gittelsohn of Bloomberg News; Ginny Walker of KBS Realty Advisors; and Kimberly Steele of JLL. Their contributions of time and hard work should be appreciated by all NAREE members.

NAREE has strong leadership in place as we head toward our 59th Annual Real Estate Journalism Conference in New Orleans in June and continue to proceed to celebrating our 100th anniversary in 2029.