Jim Belfiore - Forecast Luncheon Keynote Speaker
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 5th, 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.
