David Howell: Getting Beyond ‘Normal’

Before coming aboard McEnearney Associates in 1996, David Howell was the owner and principal broker of his own real estate company for 12 years—though his path to the industry was a little unconventional.
“My wife and I acquired a real estate company owned by friends of my in-laws, although that wasn’t our intention,” he says. “We were looking to get involved as agents, but they told us they were retiring, and shortly thereafter, we ended up buying their company and