{"id":149974,"date":"2026-02-04T02:16:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149974\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T02:16:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T02:16:13","slug":"rene-galvan-succeeds-bob-hale-as-president-ceo-of-har","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/149974\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9 Galvan succeeds Bob Hale as president, CEO of HAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ren\u00e9 Galvan was appointed president and CEO of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.har.com\/content\/department\/newsroom?pid=2215\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Houston Association of REALTORS\u00ae<\/a>, replacing longtime leader Bob Hale.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/houstonagentmagazine.com\/2024\/01\/30\/har-president-ceo-bob-hale-announces-retirement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hale retired<\/a> on Jan. 31 after 37 years as president and CEO. He first joined HAR leadership in 1996 and was a founder of HAR.com alongside Galvan, who has served as executive vice president of the organization since 1998. <\/p>\n<p>Galvan is a certified public accountant with a degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He was named on the <a href=\"https:\/\/houstonagentmagazine.com\/2026\/01\/16\/sp200-robert-reffkin-most-powerful-person-in-real-estate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Swanepoel 200<\/a> Watchlist and serves on boards including the American Society of Association Executives, the Finance Committee of the National Association of REALTORS\u00ae and the Public Policy Committee of Texas REALTORS\u00ae. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs president and CEO, my priority is to continue strengthening our services, tools and support that our 50,000 members rely on in this rapidly changing real estate environment,\u201d Galvan said in a press release. <\/p>\n<p>Hale was named CEO Emeritus, an honorary title that recognizes exceptional service for former officers. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis organization has been my life\u2019s work,\u201d Hale said. \u201cI am proud of what we\u2019ve built together and confident that HAR is in excellent hands with Ren\u00e9 Galvan as president and CEO.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9 Galvan was appointed president and CEO of the Houston Association of REALTORS\u00ae, replacing longtime leader Bob Hale.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[62435,62436,27690,62437,56,24716,58,57,50989,62438,62439,62440,51001],"class_list":["post-149974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-american-society-of-association-executives","tag-bob-hale","tag-har","tag-har-com","tag-houston","tag-houston-association-of-realtors","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-houston-real-estate","tag-nar","tag-national-association-of-realtors","tag-rene-galvan","tag-sc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}