Jim Belfiore is the Founder and CEO of Belfiore Analytics, a full-service Western U.S. market research firm, with offices in Arizona and Colorado. He is widely considered Arizona’s foremost housing market expert, with 28 years of experience in housing research, supporting developers, homebuilders, equity and debt lenders, appraisers, investors, attorneys, construction companies, brokers, and product manufacturers with off-the-shelf data, advisory products, custom market feasibility reports, and expert witness services.

Belfiore Analytics’ StreetSmarts data application, The Pulse advisory publication, custom studies, and expert witness testimony are widely relied upon by industry leading companies. Jim also supports the industry by speaking at major industry events, founding the largest housing industry event in the State of Arizona and speaking for industry associations and companies. “Spring”, Belfiore Analytic’s newest, industry-wide event, will be held at the Westin Kierland Resort & Spa on March 5 th , 2027. Jim’s been quoted in major national, regional, and local publications, and has been selected as an Arizona Business Leader by AZBigMedia over the course of many years.

From 2000 to 2005, Jim served as Vice President of Market Research and Investment Manager for one of the largest off- balance sheet financing organizations in the United States, co-underwriting an estimated $1.5 Billion of residential real estate in the top 20 U.S. metropolitan areas, including Phoenix. Prior to this, he helped build the largest multi-family brokerage firm, Hendrick’s & Partners (purchased by Berkadia) in the U.S., helping it to expand from 8 to 23 offices as its National Research Director.

Jim has served in the officer roles of Chairperson and Vice Chairperson in 2018 and 2019 of The Care Fund, an organization dedicated to paying living expenses for Arizona families and their children. He has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Phoenix Chapter of Lambda Alpha International, and as the Chairperson of Urban Land Institute’s Arizona District UrbanPlan program. More recently formed an industry Homelessness Task Force for St. Vincent de Paul.

Josh Hartmann serves as CEO of NexMetro, the country’s leading developer of single-family rentals. He brings more than 25 years of real estate management and development to this role and is using that background to create innovative home solutions in the country’s hottest housing markets. He is responsible for the development and implementation of both short and long-term business strategies to ensure the company’s continued growth, effectiveness, and sustainability. NexMetro’s unique product of detached, professionally managed, single-story leased home neighborhoods create places people are passionate about and want to call home.

Under Josh’s leadership, NexMetro is positioned as a solutions-based developer providing well-thought-out communities where residents enjoy the comforts and conveniences of their own home without the upfront expenses or long-term main- tenance needs typical of home ownership. NexMetro has invested nearly $3 billion in assets completed or in development in national markets. Josh‘s leadership has resulted in more than 11,000 homes representing more than 60 projects completed or under construction nationally since the company’s inception in 2012.

Prior to joining NexMetro, Josh oversaw land operations for the Phoenix division of PulteGroup, Inc. where he managed $2.4B of capitalized assets and more than $100MM in annual cash flow for acquisition and development of land assets. His tenure in the real estate development field and his innovative and forward-thinking approach sets him apart and showcase his entrepreneurial spirit and dedication to the communities in which NexMetro is fortunate to serve.

A NexMetro Board Member, Josh is also a frequent real estate industry panelist and has been involved with organizations including Young Presidents Organization and ULI Built for Rent product council. Through his leadership, NexMetro piloted the Arizona Housing Fund’s Multihousing Rent Round Up program to support the development of affordable housing and support services for Arizonans facing housing insecurity. He also serves as a mentor for Project Destined and supports the Phoenix Art Museum, Hazelden Betty Ford, The Nines (IX) Conservancy in New York, and Alice Cooper Solid Rock Teen Centers.