Mark Fleming

SVP, Decision Sciences & Chief Economist
First American Title Insurance Co

Mark Fleming serves as the senior vice president for Decision Science and chief economist for First American Financial Corporation, a leading provider of title insurance, settlement services and risk solutions for real estate transactions that traces its heritage back to 1889. 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 interests primarily include real estate and urban economics, data science and real estate risk. 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,” and he is the author of multiple U.S. patents.

As a trusted and influential voice with more than 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, The New York Times, Bloomberg News and Housing Wire and he is a frequent guest on high-profile broadcast news channels, including Yahoo Finance, Reuters News, CNBC, Fox Business News and NPR. Fleming also co-hosts a biweekly podcast, REconomy, that focuses on timely topics in real estate.

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