Caroline Delaney
Caroline Delaney covers property for the Irish Examiner with a focus on how individual homes, damaged houses and outdoor spaces fit into the wider housing landscape. Her work combines straight market coverage of residential listings with longer features on what happens when things go wrong, and how people live with and around their homes. She brings experience from news and features roles into the property pages, keeping the tone clear and fact-led rather than promotional.
Residential homes on the market
Delaney’s regular property pieces centre on specific homes coming to market, with headlines that foreground core details such as price, size and house type.
In her coverage of a six-bedroom Cork family home with “Home Alone” vibes priced at €975k, she uses the pop-culture reference as a hook while setting out the basic facts of the listing. Her article on a €425k five-bed bungalow in Rathbarry presents the house as being in a prime spot, again pairing the bedroom count and property type with the guide price and a clear sense of location.
These stories sit within the Irish Examiner’s property pages alongside similarly structured headlines on semidetached houses and other residential listings, reinforcing a sub‑beat built around practical, price‑led descriptions of homes for sale.
Property features on fire damage and repair
Delaney also writes deeper property features on the consequences of damage to homes and the process of putting them right. In “Repairing homes after fires can be a burning topic”, a property cover story, she treats house fires as a structural issue for the housing market, tying together court proceedings and cases involving places such as Kinsale, Carlow and Cork.
The framing moves from individual incidents to broader questions about how homes are repaired after serious events, marking out a strand of coverage that deals with risk and recovery rather than only with new listings.
Outdoor spaces and synthetic lawns
Delaney’s property work extends into outdoor spaces, especially where garden choices raise environmental questions. In a piece on the backlash against synthetic lawns, she reports on criticism of plastic turf in domestic settings and includes the views of environmental experts on its impacts.
This line of coverage connects housing to sustainability, showing how decisions about gardens and outdoor areas are treated as part of the lived reality of home ownership rather than a separate lifestyle topic.
Role on the property and features desk
Delaney combines this reporting with a senior role on the property and features side of the Irish Examiner. Professional profiles describe her as holding a deputy-level position on the property desk and having previously worked across news, features and outdoors coverage at the masthead.
That blend of responsibilities shapes her real estate coverage: homes for sale are set alongside stories about fire damage and garden choices, giving a consistent, practical view of housing that spans aspiration, risk and everyday use.
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Aleisha Dawson
Aleisha Dawson covers property where prestige deals, hard market data and lifestyle stories meet, with a particular focus on high-profile apartments and new projects in South East Queensland. She is a regional real estate editor within News Corp’s property network, overseeing property coverage for the Gold Coast Bulletin and contributing to Realestate.com.au’s property news. Her beat spans record-setting penthouse sales, off-market prestige deals, new apartment releases in landmark projects, and one-off high-value homes used as case studies in buyer behaviour. She tracks land and apartment markets with a data-led approach, using specific price points, volume figures and suburb lists. Dawson also reports on quirky homes, celebrity property, pop culture-linked locations and technology-shaped renovations, and her stories are widely republished by developers, agents and project marketers.
Blair Jackson
Blair Jackson explains housing through money: how prices, policy and banks shape the way people buy, sell and live. He is a reporter with the national wire service NewsWire, covering real estate and household finance across Australia. His work follows housing downturns, price movements, negative equity, mortgages, first-home buyers and existing borrowers. He reports on renters, poor housing conditions, high rents, repairs, affordability and housing inequality. He examines zoning, supply targets, tax changes, construction limits, development decisions and efforts to fix housing shortages. His finance coverage includes mortgage fraud, bank risk, interest rates, household costs and windfalls used to pay off property. He also covers auctions, listings, luxury homes, renovations and major developments. Jackson combines data, policy analysis, expert warnings, open-home and auction detail, and personal examples to show how financial decisions affect households and communities.
Bonnie Campbell
Bonnie Campbell is a luxury property reporter for The Australian Financial Review who focuses on the very top of the residential market, where big-ticket homes, mega-mansions and high-profile sales set and test price records. She covers trophy properties, record-breaking deals and prestige streets, using individual sales as case studies in how wealth, status and grand houses move through the market. Her stories track extreme price movements, large-scale renovations, unusual features and multi-million dollar listings, and link them to high-net-worth buyers, business leaders and public figures. She repeatedly returns to prestige coastal, resort and lifestyle markets, explaining how scarcity, views and amenity support multi-million dollar valuations. Alongside single-property features, she produces roundups of major luxury deals to show patterns in where the biggest money flows and which houses define the top end.
Caroline Zielinski
Caroline Zielinski is a property reporter at The Age who connects auction-floor detail with the social effects of housing costs, standards and design. She covers auctions, prices, interest rates and sales across the capital-city market and surrounding suburbs, as well as affordability, first-home buyers, generational inequality and the changing Great Australian Dream. Her reporting examines rental standards, regulation, build-to-sell townhouses, energy-efficient housing, building defects, high-rise feasibility and architecturally significant homes. She uses market data, regulatory research and human stories to explain what property trends mean for buyers, renters and owners. She has written for Good Weekend, The Weekend Australian Magazine, Sunday Life, The Copenhagen Post, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC, SBS, Cosmos, Primer and The New Daily. She brings long experience in features, essays and long-form reporting.