William H. Freeman

Bill Freeman serves as Chairman of Freeman Webb, Inc., a real estate investment, management, and brokerage company he co-founded with James A. Webb, III in 1979.

In 1978, Freeman became director of Downtown Urban Development for the Metropolitan Nashville Development and Housing Agency (MDHA), a position he held for a year before founding Freeman Webb, Inc. at age 28. Prior to his work for the city, he spent four years as a real estate securities sales representative with Freeman Brothers Realtors, where he was involved in land sales and the packaging and sale of income-producing real estate syndications.

Freeman’s career in real estate began as a teenager when he held a summer job as a maintenance man and groundskeeper at family-owned apartment complexes. At 16, he became the youngest person in the country to graduate from the Realtors’ Institute and receive the GRI designation, and at 17, he acquired his first piece of income-producing real estate.

He is a member of the Nashville Board of Realtors, the Tennessee and National Associations of Realtors, and the Realtors National Marketing Institute. He has chaired or served on numerous committees with these organizations throughout his career. A Certified Real Estate Appraiser, he has served as an instructor in commercial investment real estate for the Nashville Board of Realtors and in real estate syndication for the Tennessee Real Estate Institute. He is certified to market and sponsors real estate securities by the Real Estate Securities Syndication Institute and is a past president of the institute’s Tennessee Chapter.

A strong supporter of charitable and community organizations throughout his career, he has served on the boards of the Tennessee State University Foundation, the Nashville Area YMCA, the Nashville Public Television Council, and Children’s House. An alumnus of the Leadership Nashville program (1979-1980), he has served as commissioner of the Nashville Convention Center and on the board of the Tennessee Housing Development Agency. He was named Man of the Year by the Nashville Area Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1977.