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announces plans for Reonomy's San Bernardino, California Phoenix, Arizona press release Columbus, Ohio recently-announced Looking Forward own technology The views expressed here are the author's own and not that of ALM's Real Estate Media Group. Rich Sarkis is the CEO of Reonomy.

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