About Mark Fleming
Mark Fleming serves as the chief economist for First American Financial Corporation, a premier provider of title, settlement and risk solutions for real estate transactions and the leader in the digital transformation of its industry. In his role, he leads an economics team responsible for analysis, commentary and forecasting trends in the real estate and mortgage markets.
Fleming's research expertise primarily includes real estate and urban economics, applied econometrics, and mortgage risk. As a trusted and influential voice with 20 years of experience in the mortgage and property information business, Fleming is frequently quoted by national news outlets and industry trade publications, such as The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and HousingWire, and he is a regular guest on high-profile broadcast news, including CBS, CNBC, Fox Business and NPR.
He frequently publishes research and analysis on First American's Economic Center and co-hosts The REconomy Podcast™ with Deputy Chief Economist Odeta Kushi. He has published research in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics and Geographic Information Sciences. His research has also been published in the book, "Advances in Spatial Econometrics."
Before joining First American, he developed insights and analytical products for CoreLogic, and property valuation models at Fannie Mae. Fleming graduated from the University of Maryland with a master of science and a doctorate in agricultural and resource economics and holds a bachelor of arts in economics from Swarthmore College. He lives and works in the Washington D.C. area.