Matthew recently spent four years as Head of Research for Compass’s New Development Division where he led a team of 15 analysts covering national market trends in the new development space. He was involved with positioning and pre-development planning for projects totaling more than $20B in sales. Prior to joining Compass Matthew was Vice President of Research and Analytics at BHS Development Marketing in NYC. Previously, he spent 13 years in development involved with multiple boutique hotel projects and resorts in the Caribbean. Matthew has also taught graduate-level classes at NYU in the Real Estate Development program. He holds B.A., M.Arch., and M.S.RED degrees.

As Senior Research Analyst, Niki Etebari is responsible for building pricing models, monitoring and analyzing economic conditions and industry trends, publishing market reports, and managing a proprietary research database. Prior to joining The Kennelly Group, Niki worked at The Agency Development Group where she was a core member of the firm’s advisory practice. Niki earned her BA in Economics and International Relations from Boston University and worked in London, Paris, and Boston before returning to her hometown of Los Angeles to work in real estate.

Taylor Tanimoto has been designing residential interiors for more than seventeen years. She began her career in San Francisco with Coddington Design, where she designed numerous high-end interiors in San Francisco, Palo Alto, Carmel, and other Bay Area cities. Since 2010, she has been based in Los Angeles, where she has expanded her client base to include projects throughout Southern California, as well as her vacation homes in places as far away as Nantucket.

In 2021 she started Tanimoto Design (a Kennelly Group company), and continues to design spectacular interiors as well as provide design consultation for new and renovated residential spaces. Taylor earned a BFA in Interior Architecture and Design from The Academy of Art University in 2004, and is proficient in AutoCAD.

Erin Kennelly brings more than 17 years of experience in the development industry and has provided guidance to hundreds of developments in dozens of cities. He specializes in using innovative techniques to solve complex problems involving residential real estate pricing, marketing, and sales.

As an industry leader, he has developed proprietary indices to track pricing trends in various cities, as well as designed and maintained large databases of residential sales and new development data. Erin began his career in the Pacific Northwest where he worked at The Portland Development Commission and earned a Master of Urban Planning from The University of Washington. Before starting The Kennelly Group in 2020, Erin headed research for The Agency (Four Years) and The Mark Company (12 years).