Dan Beyers
Dan Beyers focuses on the people and decisions behind commercial property, using narrative profiles and interviews to show how families, executives and researchers shape real estate businesses. He serves as executive editor at CoStar News, guiding coverage that connects data-driven market intelligence with clear stories about the actors who use that information.
Family-led retail real estate stories
Beyers treats retail real estate as a family business as much as a property class, highlighting how multi‑generational partnerships play out in bricks‑and‑mortar portfolios. In his coverage of Michael and Brian Hirschfeld, he frames their work as a shared enterprise where family ties and retail real estate strategy are intertwined, using the story to explain how ownership, operations and succession work inside a long‑running retail platform. He writes these pieces in an accessible style, keeping the focus on the individuals and their choices while still grounding the narrative in the commercial realities of leasing and investment.
This approach distinguishes his work from routine transaction reporting on the retail beat. Instead of listing deals or summarising quarterly results, he uses the Hirschfelds and similar subjects to illustrate how retail landlords and developers build and protect value over time. The emphasis is on motivations, relationships and risk decisions, making his retail real estate coverage particularly useful for understanding how strategy is executed inside operating companies rather than just on balance sheets.
Executive and research leader profiles
Beyers extends the same profile‑driven lens to senior figures in real estate research and analytics, often using interview formats to surface their career arcs and viewpoints. He conducts conversations with leaders such as Brad McGetrick and Corey Durant about their journeys from client roles into senior research positions, drawing out how they learned to use data and market insight to guide investment and leasing decisions. These pieces focus on professional development and leadership, connecting individual experience to the broader evolution of CoStar’s research function.
As executive editor, he also uses these interviews to explain how research teams operate inside a modern real estate information company. By asking about methods, tools and organisational change, he shows how data collection and analysis underpin commercial real estate decision‑making while keeping the tone rooted in the personal stories of the people doing the work. The result is coverage that humanises research roles that might otherwise be described only in technical or corporate terms.
Career narratives across adjacent industries
Beyers frequently writes career narratives that trace how professionals move through adjacent industries into roles connected to property and infrastructure. In his profile of Chebem Chukwu, for example, he starts with an early telecommunications role in AT&T’s leadership development program and follows the path that experience opened up. The structure of the story shows how formal training, lateral moves and new responsibilities combine to build the skill sets that later matter in more senior posts.
These narratives broaden his real estate beat by showing the talent pipelines that feed into it from sectors like telecoms and technology. Rather than treating executive backgrounds as a brief line in a biography, he unpacks the stages of a career and uses them to explain how different industries intersect with property markets and data businesses over time. This emphasis on career progression makes his work particularly clear about how individual choices and institutional programs shape who ends up in decision‑making roles around real estate.
Editorial leadership in data‑rich real estate coverage
In addition to his reporting, Beyers plays a central role in setting the editorial agenda for CoStar News. As executive editor and a vice president at CoStar Group, he oversees content that blends detailed market information with storytelling designed to be useful to professionals who rely on real estate data. His remit covers commercial real estate broadly, with a particular focus on making complex data and research accessible through profiles, interviews and clear explanatory pieces.
His background in business journalism and senior editing informs this work, and he has been cited as an example of how non‑media companies are investing in high‑level content leadership to make better use of their information assets. Under his direction, CoStar’s news coverage emphasises both the numbers and the narratives behind them, ensuring that readers see how datasets connect to real companies, real properties and the people making choices in those environments.
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Aasma Day
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Aditi Ganguly
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Adrian Darbyshire
Adrian Darbyshire is a senior reporter whose work is driven by official documents, archives and on-the-ground detail, giving his stories a factual, report-led tone rooted in the character of specific places. He is a senior reporter at Isle of Man Today, covering how property, heritage and public decisions shape where people live and work. He links real estate stories with politics, history and environmental pressures, reporting closely on government reviews, parliamentary scrutiny, legislative proposals and ministerial conduct. He writes about historic structures, abandoned and threatened infrastructure, major property moves and residential sales, treating buildings as part of a continuing story about place. He also reports on environment, wildlife and land-use, focusing on how planning and infrastructure decisions affect heritage and ecology. He has worked in local journalism for more than two decades, with bylines spanning politics, health, environment, heritage and property.
Alexandra Goss
Alexandra Goss is an award-winning freelance property journalist who treats housing as both an asset class and the backdrop to people’s lives, using detailed case studies to show how money, family and lifestyle decisions meet. She writes regular features on buying, selling and living in homes for The Telegraph, and covers prime and super-prime real estate and its culture for outlets including the Financial Times, Spear’s and PrimeResi. A former deputy editor of The Sunday Times Home section, she reports on the UK housing market’s human impact, from divorce, later-life moves and intergenerational ties to the effects of mortgage rates, stamp duty, school fees and auctions. Her work blends narrative reporting, interviews and practical guides, giving readers clear context, concrete tips and insight into both mainstream and high-end property.