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Episode 14: Erin Roberts/Ryan Companies: Piecing Together the Data Puzzle

Dec 11, 2023
51 min

In this podcast, Carl Whitaker and Erin Roberts discuss the pros and cons of granular market data, current trends and their long-term effects, how supply chain issues may continue to slow new construction completion, the importance of benchmarking and how being a college radio DJ can be the perfect training ground for a life in research and insights.

Carl Whitaker

Vice President & Chief Economist
RealPage, Inc.

Carl Whitaker is RealPage’s Chief Economist, leading the company's team of economists and market analysts. Carl and the Market Intelligence team specialize in analyzing and disseminating economic and market trends for the rental housing industry. He primarily focuses on presenting trends in the rental housing industry to a wide audience, including investors, asset managers, operations professionals and media, among other personas. Carl has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and GlobeSt and is a frequent keynote speaker for industry events. Carl holds degrees from the University of North Texas, including a Master of Science in Applied Geography. 

Erin Roberts

Insights Manager
Ryan Companies

Erin brings 10 years of substantial experience to her leadership position as Insights Manager for Real Estate Intelligence. She stays in step with real estate market trends, identifies new markets and submarkets, validates sites, works through pursuit approval, and provides general support for new tools and data for evaluating market trends.

Erin has a passion for solving challenges, learning about new markets and crafting new tools for developers. She excels at finding clear and concise methods to explain data and what it means, synthesizing insights, evaluating outcomes, and developing ideas and strategies that make it easier for teams and stakeholders to work efficiently and arrive at sound decisions.

She is a member of the Real Estate Council of Austin (RECA) and holds a Master’s Degree in Applied Geography/Geography/Geographic Information Systems from New Mexico State University.

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