Abbey Ferguson
Abbey Ferguson covers how major commercial moves and redevelopment plans reshape the built environment, with a focus on real estate deals that test what land and retail space are worth in Central Texas.
Real estate deals and land valuation pressure
Her reporting tracks standout transactions where the price per acre or square foot departs sharply from recent appraisals and past sales, treating each deal as a signal of how fast local values are moving. In coverage of the proposed data center site in Hill County, she breaks down an $80 million offer into a roughly $100,000-per-acre valuation, contrasting it with county appraisal data and prior use of the land to show just how far the market has jumped. She stays close to the numbers in these stories, tying contract price, appraisal records, and prior listing history into plain-language explanations of what buyers are betting on and what that means for surrounding property owners.
Retail redevelopment and national brands
Ferguson returns often to the question of which national retail brands come into, leave, or reshuffle their footprint in Central Texas and what happens to the real estate they occupy. In her report on a prospective Trader Joe’s location in Waco, she follows a local real estate agent’s look at an old big-box building, using the broker’s interest to examine how former large-format retail properties are being repositioned for new tenants. She uses these kinds of stories to show how older shopping corridors might be revived or repurposed, and how speculation about a single tenant can ripple through nearby landlords, small businesses, and neighborhood expectations.
Infrastructure, planning, and development context
Beyond individual deals, Ferguson pays attention to the planning and infrastructure decisions that frame where new investment goes. In her coverage of a metropolitan planning organization’s grant project that uses artificial intelligence to predict traffic patterns, she links future road and mobility changes to likely development corridors and investment interest. These pieces connect transportation planning and public funding to the private real estate decisions she covers elsewhere, giving readers a sense of how long-range infrastructure work can set up the next wave of commercial and residential projects.
Reporting style and format
Ferguson writes as a news reporter for the local television newsroom, building her real estate coverage around clear leads, concise explanations of deal terms, and quotes from brokers, officials, and landowners. Her work tends to stay close to specific properties and transactions rather than broad market commentary, using concrete examples to show larger trends. Across recent stories, she maintains a straightforward, fact-driven tone that emphasizes verifiable figures, public records, and on-the-record sources to explain why a particular piece of land or building is suddenly at the center of attention.
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Aaron Moselle
Aaron Moselle covers housing and community development for WHYY’s PlanPhilly, filing for radio and the web. He stands out for connecting market data and government action to displacement, affordable homes, and the daily questions facing renters and homeowners. His core beat is housing affordability and market strain, including high mortgage rates, rising prices, tax assessments, and what they mean for buyers, sellers, and renters. He also reports on preserving and creating affordable housing, neighborhood rehab efforts, major real estate deals, and the effect of property sales on residents. His work often uses direct sourcing, plain language, and service journalism to make policy and finance clear.
Alcynna Lloyd
Alcynna Lloyd reports on how housing markets shape people’s lives, focusing on the real decisions and trade-offs behind buying, renting, and moving home. She is a real estate reporter at Business Insider, where she writes about homebuying behavior, tiny homes, and multi-generational housing as part of the economy team’s coverage of real estate and the rental market. Her core beat is the consumer side of housing, with an emphasis on affordability and how market conditions affect ordinary buyers and renters. She writes analytical service pieces that compare different markets and track moves, migrations, and life changes tied to housing. Her stories combine economic context, market data, and detailed personal narratives, and she also covers startups and rising real estate talent to show how industry decisions affect everyday housing choices.
Aldo Svaldi
Aldo Svaldi treats residential real estate as a window into the Colorado economy, explaining how housing trends reflect jobs, income, business activity and public policy. He is a long-tenured business reporter who covers the Colorado economy, economic development and residential real estate. His beat centers on mortgage costs, construction pipelines, buyer behavior and banking, with a focus on housing pressures and affordability. He reports on segments such as entry-level, move-up and higher-end homes, showing how financing costs, supply constraints and demand shifts affect each. His work is data-forward, using economic indicators, reports and forecasts to track cycles, turning points and structural issues. He scrutinizes research findings and pairs expert analysis with interviews and on-the-ground observations to show how policy, corporate moves and financial decisions shape housing demand, prices and development patterns.
Alexis Weisend
Alexis Weisend focuses on the business side of housing, showing how real estate markets, technology and policy decisions shape daily life for buyers, renters and small businesses. She is a business reporter at The Seattle Times, currently filling in as the real estate reporter, building on work covering housing affordability, home sales trends and rental challenges. Her beat centers on single-family rentals, Gen Z paths to homeownership, and the business of platforms like Zillow and Redfin, including antitrust and labor impacts. She extends coverage into short-term rentals and small business resilience. Her reporting pairs detailed market and regulatory analysis with lived experience interviews, long-range data comparisons, case studies and reader callouts, including outreach to adjustable-rate mortgage holders and social media buyers and sellers. Her feature on Gen Z homeowners has received national recognition for turning complex housing finance into accessible, grounded stories.