Tony Wilbert, a regional editor at CoStar News and a long-time volunteer with the National Association of Real Estate Editors, has been elected and installed as 2025 NAREE president.
At CoStar News, Tony oversees coverage of commercial real estate in the Washington, D.C. and Canadian markets. He produces CoStar News’ twice-weekly People and Canadian newsletters. Wilbert 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.
Both Jon Banister, Bisnow and Suzann Silverman of Commercial Property Executive and Multi-Housing News, were elected 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 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 2024 board chair Jason Hidalgo, Reno-Gazette, remains on the board as an active board member
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. Many thanks for their time, expertise and hard work.
NAREE, a non-profit association founded in 1929, 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.
