Katalin Peter, Esq.

Katalin Peter is the Vice President of Government Affairs, DC, Residential. She has served as the organization’s lobbyist, representing AOBA in all matters related to multi-family residential real estate in the District of Columbia since 2021.

Katalin focuses her work at AOBA on modernizing DC’s landlord/tenant relationship through advancing proactive legislation. Katalin is dedicated to halting any legislation that harms a housing provider’s ability to serve their residents properly. She encourages relationship-building between AOBA members and regulators by opening communication channels and streamlining processes.

Before joining AOBA, Katalin was Vice President and General Counsel for the DC and Greater Capital Area Realtor Associations. There, she engineered victories such as the single-family exception to TOPA and the creation of the First-Time Homebuyer Benefit for workforce housing residents.
Katalin's prior experience includes a legal fellowship with the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee from 2008-2010, throughout the housing crisis. She has also worked in commercial litigation with the automotive and insurance industries.

A Hungarian American, Katalin received her economics-based Juris Doctor from George Mason School of Law, where she served on the Journal for Law and Economics. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Government and German from Franklin and Marshall College. She has also completed coursework at the Institute for European Studies in Vienna, Austria, where she taught English at a Viennese secondary school.