Austin Perez is a Senior Policy Advisor at the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), where he helps develop and advance federal legislative and regulatory strategy on housing, technology, and insurance issues. He represents NAR before Congress, federal agencies, and industry stakeholders on policy matters involving artificial intelligence, copyright, data privacy, cybersecurity, fraud prevention, competition policy, and other emerging technologies affecting real estate. Austin co-staffs NAR’s Federal Technology Policy Committee and serves as staff director for NAR’s Insurance and Resort & Second Homes committees. With more than 25 years of government affairs experience, he advocates on behalf of real estate professionals, Multiple Listing Services, and the broader real estate industry across a broad range of federal legislative and regulatory matters.