Market Signals You’re Missing: A New Way to Read CRE Sentiment

As a member of the REES team at Oxford Economics, Abby brings 20 years’ worth of experience to the study of the real estate industry. At Oxford Economics, she focuses on real estate trends for the five major property types in the US and Canada. The crux of her forecasting and analytic real estate background comes from her decade long career at CBRE Econometric Advisors where she was in charge of metro-level forecasts and analysis for the retail and hotel sectors in the US. She has also worked at Barings and UBS where she was an integral member of their research teams.

Abby holds a bachelor’s in mathematics from Union College and a master’s in economics from the University of Connecticut.

Ryan Sweet is the Chief US Economist at Oxford Economics. He is responsible for forecasting and assessing the US macroeconomic outlook and how it will influence monetary policy and financial markets. Ryan is among the most accurate high-frequency forecasters of the U.S. economy, according to MarketWatch and Bloomberg LP.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics, Ryan led real-time economics at Moody’s Analytics and was a member of the U.S. macroeconomics team. He was also head of the firm’s monetary policy research, following actions by the Federal Reserve and examining its potential impact on the U.S. economy.

Ryan is an adjunct professor in the Economics and Finance Department at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. He received a master’s degree in finance from John’s Hopkins University, a master’s degree in economics from the University of Delaware, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Washington College.

Richard Byrd has 10+ years of real estate experience working across a variety of asset classes including residential communities, self-storage, multifamily, and retail. He has led investments in property and portfolio acquisitions as well as ground-up developments. These investments span more than 30 projects and $350 million in total capital.

Richard recently founded Aspen Grove Realty, which focuses on residential developments in the sunbelt region. Prior to that, Richard spent 8 years as a development partner with Provident Realty Advisors. Before transitioning into commercial real estate, Richard taught in Dallas ISD as a member of Teach for America. He received an MBA from Southern Methodist University and BBA ay the University of Alabama.

George is responsible for managing and co-ordinating Oxford’s Global Real Estate division including all sales, product development and business strategy. George also heads up Oxford’s Specialist Markets Group, focusing on global growth across Oxford’s Tourism, BIS and NKC economic business groups.

George is a member of the senior management committee and has spent 9 years with Oxford, after joining in 2012 to set up its real estate division. His main responsibilities include growing Oxford Economics’ presence within the real estate sector throughout EMEA, Asia and the Americas.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics, George held roles with Real Capital Analytics (RCA) as Director of Business Development EMEA, Manager at CoStar UK and as an Associate for Savills Plc.
George is a member of the Society of Property Researchers (SPR), US Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) Research Affinity Group, The Investment Property Forum (IPF), Urban Land Institute (ULI) and Old Harrovian Property Club (OHPC).

George studied at Zurich International Business School, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Northumbria University (UK).