Rick Grant

President | RGA Public Relations

Rick Grant is the Editorial Director of Weekly Real Estate News and the President of RGA Public Relations, a consulting firm specializing in communication strategy and corporate branding. Grant has 30 years of experience reporting on the real estate and mortgage industries. He has designed, written, and produced branded marketing collateral and thought leadership content for dozens of companies, eight of which were acquired.

Before launching RGA, Grant founded Texell Interactive Media, a production company delivering electronic audio and video content (podcasts) for web-based marketing.

Before following his entrepreneurial interests, Grant spent more than a decade as one of the nation’s leading trade journalists covering the financial services industry. His articles have been featured in national newspapers, magazines and online publications and he is recognized as one the first bloggers in the mortgage industry. Today, he writes for Weekly Real Estate News.

Previously, he served as editor of October Research Corp.’s Real Estate Technology Insight (RETI). He was an editor for Arizent publications (formerly SourceMedia). During his time there, Grant served as managing editor for Origination News magazine, Brokermagazine, Mortgage Technology magazine, and the HomeEquityWire electronic newsletter. He served as special reports editor forNational Mortgage News and designed the curricula for industry conferences. Later, he served as a feature writer for Mortgage Banking magazine, a columnist for HousingWire and a blogger on real estate firm Zillow’s consumer-facing blog.