Skylar Olsen

Dr. Skylar Olsen is the Chief Economist at Zillow. A Ph.D. housing economist with more than ten years of experience figuring out how, why, and what’s next. Skylar regularly shares her housing-market expertise on stage, in print, and on local and national television and radio stations. She teaches Real Estate Evolution and Disruption at the University of Washington. Skylar was a foundational member of Zillow’s public-facing economics team, and also has built and supported public-facing economics and data programs in Prop/FinTech through Reimagine Economics, a consultancy she founded, and was head of economics at Tomo, a digital mortgage start-up.