Economic Forecast Series: Q1 2021 webinar

Complimentary Webinar

Original Air Date: March 23, 2021

In this new quarterly series economists will speak to home sales, interest rates, jobs and more. In just 30 minutes learn what these industry insiders are predicting in the market.

Register for the first webinar in the series featuring Fannie Mae's Senior Vice President and Chief Economist Douglas G. Duncan. One registration enrolls you for the entire series so you can be prepared throughout the year.

Learn more about:

• The refi reality
  
• Real and nominal interest rates
  
• Employment's effect on rates and policy
  
• The federal reserve monetary policy
  
• Housing supply and demand impacts
  
• And more...

Thank you to SoftPro for sponsoring this webinar series.

Watch the full series:
Part 2 featuring Dr. Jessica Lautz, VP of Demographics & Behavior Insights, NAR
Part 3 featuring Dr. Mark Fleming, Senior VP & Chief Economist, First American Financial Corp.
Part 4 featuring Michael Fratantoni, Chief Economist & Senior VP of Research and Industry Technology, MBA

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Douglas G. Duncan
Senior Vice President & Chief Economist
Fannie Mae

Douglas G. Duncan is Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at Fannie Mae where he is responsible for forecasts and analyses of the economy and the housing and mortgage markets. Duncan also oversees strategic research regarding the potential impact of external factors on the housing industry. He leads the House Price Forecast Working Group reporting to the Finance Committee.

Under his leadership, Fannie Mae’s Economic & Strategic Research Group (ESR) won the NABE Outlook Award, presented annually for the most accurate GDP and Treasury note yield forecasts, in both 2015 and 2016 – the first recipient in the award’s history to capture the honor two years in a row. In addition, ESR was awarded by Pulsenomics for best home price forecast.

Named one of Bloomberg/BusinessWeek’s 50 Most Powerful People in Real Estate, Duncan is Fannie Mae’s source for information and analyses on demographics and the external business and economic environment; the implications of changes in economic activity on the company’s strategy and execution; and for forecasting overall housing, economic, and mortgage market activity.

Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Duncan was Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at the Mortgage Bankers Association. His experience also includes work on the Financial Institutions Project at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and service as a LEGIS Fellow and staff member with the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs for Congressman Bill McCollum in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Duncan received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University and his B.S. and M.S. in Agricultural Economics from North Dakota State University.