TREC Update Presentation

Friday, September 13

10:30 am - Noon

Fort Worth Botanic Gardens -Oak Hall

GFWAR welcomes special guests from TREC to provide an update for members on the current state of the real estate industry. Join us as we hear a presentation from TREC Executive Director Chelsea Buchholtz and TREC Chair Scott Kesner. There will be Q&A time at the end of their presentation.

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Registration is encouraged but not mandatory to attend this event.

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Chelsea Buchholtz serves as Executive Director of the Texas Real Estate Commission(TREC) and Commissioner of the Texas Appraiser Licensing & Certification Board. She is the first female in the agency’s history to serve in that role.  Prior to serving as the Executive Director, Buchholtz served as TREC’s General Counsel for a short time.

Before joining the team at TREC, Buchholtz was deputy director of operations for the Community Development and Revitalization Division of the Texas General Land Office. Buchholtz also previously worked for the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, moving from deputy general counsel to general counsel to chief of staff, and served as assistant general counsel and a policy advisor to Governor Rick Perry. She began her legal career clerking for Justice Phylis Speedlin, on the Texas Court of Appeals, Fourth District, in San Antonio.

She earned her undergraduate degree from Abilene Christian University and a JD from Pepperdine University School of Law.  She completed the Governor’s Executive Development Program in 2013. In her spare time, Chelsea enjoys the outdoors, cooking, reading and spending time with her husband and young daughter.

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With more than29 years of real estate experience, Kesner has proven to be a committed leader and member of the Association of REALTORS®, serving in numerous positions at the local, state, and national levels. Scott was named REALTOR® of the Year by the Greater El Paso Association of REALTORS® in 2003 and 2016.  Kesner served as chairman of the Texas Association of REALTORS® in 2015, and over the course of the last decade, has served on, or chaired more than a dozen other committees and task forces of the organization. At the national level, he has served as a director on the National Association of REALTORS® Board of Directors for six of the last eight years.

 In 2016 Scott was appointed to the TWIA (Texas Wind Insurance Association) Board of Directors by the Chairman of The Texas Department of Insurance as one of three at-large directors located out of the TWIA 14-county coverage area.

In 2018 Scott served as a National Association of REALTORS® Regional Vice President representing Texas and Louisiana and was also appointed to the TREC Education Standards Advisory Committee. Kesner is a TREC approved instructor since 2001and teaches various continuing education courses.

Scott earned his Bachelor of Science from Sul Ross State University in 1985 in Criminal Justice and Communications. Scott has been married to Paula for 38 years and they have three children, one granddaughter, and one grandson.

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