Trade Street Residential, a real estate investment trust company, has hired Randall Eberline as chief accounting officer. He will report directly to Chief Executive Officer Richard Ross.

Eberline most recently provided accounting and financial consulting services to various companies in the real estate and financial services industries, including Trade Street. From 2005 through 2011, he served as CFO of Jim Walter Homes, a builder of affordable on-your-lot homes in the southeastern United States.

Prior to that, Eberline spent nine years in senior corporate and division finance roles at organizations, focused on residential construction and development and eleven years in public accounting, primarily with PwC, where he focused on serving real estate clients, including the initial public offering of a prominent multifamily REIT.