Who were the most influential people in real estate during 2011?

Inman News puts together an annual list, which includes several Minnesotans, and a couple with local ties. Here's a run-down:

Minneapolis-based HomeServices of America Inc had two executives on the list:
Robert Moline, president and chief operating officer, and Ron Peltier, chairman and CEO of the company. Both were cited for their efforts to make sure that brokerages retain some control over their listings. Both execs were involved in a controversial decision in which HomeServices subsidiary Edina Realty Inc. decided late in the year to pull its property listings from real estate sites such as Trulia.com and Realtor.com in an effort to drive shoppers traffic to its own website.Surely, both guys will be influential voices in the ongoing debate about how brokerages should participate in third-party listing sites.

Doug Duncan isn't a Minnesota resident, but he grew up in Fergus Falls and still has family there, so I'm including him on our list. As vice president and chief economist at Fannie Mae, he's a key player in the health of the nation's housing market, and is constantly tracking the health of the finance markets. Inman said that in 2011 Duncan was named one of the country's top four most accurate economists by the Wall Street Journal and named one of Bloomberg Businessweek's 50 Most Powerful People in Real Estate.

Brian Larson is managing member of the law firm of Larson/Sobotka PLLC and president of Larson/Sobotka Business Advisors LLC, both based in Minneapolis. His specialty is working with multiple listing services, professional associations and brokerages on governance and legal issues. Inman cited his work on a 2011 project that helped establish the .MLS domain as an online differentiator for MLSs, and for his efforts to facilitate the merger of three Realtor associations in New York state.

Mark Allen is the CEO of the Minneapolis Area Association of Realtors, but is also the CEO for a successful subsidiary called 10K Research and Marketing, which provides marketing and statistical reporting services to Realtor associations, multiple listing services, brokerages and other real estate entities throughout the country. Allen is preparing for the launch of another 10K initiative called InfoSparks, which will provide customized market data reports.

John Stumpf is a Minnesota native and a longtime Twin Cities-based banking executive, mostly with the former Norwest Corp., which merged with Wells Fargo Co. in 1998. Today Stumpf is chairman of San Francisco-based Wells Fargo & Co., he helped lead Wells' 2008 purchase of Wachovia Corp.