Eli Segall
Eli Segall reports on how real estate, development and business deals reshape Las Vegas, with close attention to the people, money and policy behind each project. He covers commercial and residential properties, major land sales and long-running disputes, often tracing how a single transaction or legal fight reflects broader trends in the region’s housing market and investment climate.
Real estate deals and development projects
Segall’s core work follows the lifecycle of real estate deals, from land listings to groundbreakings and ownership changes. He reports for the Las Vegas Review-Journal as a real estate reporter, focusing on business and finance stories tied to property and development. His coverage includes large, high-profile transactions such as a 16-acre spread on the Las Vegas Strip listed for $800 million, where he details asking prices, broker information and market context.
He also tracks new hotel proposals near major venues like Allegiant Stadium, explaining how planned projects fit into the surrounding commercial landscape and tourism economy.
Beyond marquee Strip properties, Segall regularly covers nongaming hotel plans and discount land sales west of the Strip, documenting how investors adjust expectations from boom-year pricing to current valuations. He follows upscale apartment and mixed-use projects in downtown Las Vegas, outlining unit counts, amenities, rent ranges and target tenants for new complexes such as resort-style apartment communities with townhomes and yoga studios.
His beat also extends to planned luxury high-rise projects, where he reports on developers’ timelines, design ambitions and regulatory steps as they move from concept to construction.
Housing market trends and homebuilding
Segall frequently reports on how broader economic conditions show up in the housing market, especially builder activity and home values. His work on Southern Nevada home values highlights how local price growth compares with national trends, emphasizing periods when the region’s home values rise faster than the U.S. average.
He covers new-home sales volumes and notes sharp declines from prior-year levels, giving readers a clear picture of how builder performance shifts as demand and financing conditions change.
Within these pieces, Segall draws on market forecasts and brokerage research to explain expected recoveries or slowdowns in commercial and residential segments. He has reported on national brokerage outlooks for the Las Vegas Valley’s office, retail, industrial and investment markets, summarizing which sectors are weak, which are improving and how rent levels and vacancies are moving.
This mix of data, builder behavior and pricing detail is characteristic of his work, grounding individual stories about projects or sales in the wider performance of the local real estate market.
Business, probate and policy around property
Segall’s reporting often crosses from pure real estate coverage into business and legal territory when property rights or estate issues drive policy change.
In a retrospective on his top business stories of 2025, his work is credited with exposing how outsiders used Nevada probate processes to take control of dead people’s homes, frequently without generating returns for heirs. He followed that investigation through to legislative change, explaining how a new state law added steps to take over estates and restricted who can obtain authority to sell homes through an expedited probate process.
These pieces show him using real estate reporting to illuminate systemic gaps and their consequences for homeowners and families.
His business coverage also extends to the city’s evolution as a distribution hub, where he reports on industrial development, warehouse construction and the logistics sector’s impact on land use and investment. In these stories he connects corporate decisions and infrastructure projects to shifts in demand for large tracts of land, highlighting how industrial growth reshapes the region’s commercial footprint.
Downtown properties, culture and ownership changes
Segall maintains a steady focus on downtown Las Vegas properties, particularly buildings tied to high-profile figures and the area’s cultural life. He has reported on downtown properties formerly owned by the late Tony Hsieh that are under new ownership, outlining how these assets are being repositioned and what future uses are being considered.
He also writes about small hotels with retro character that change hands, noting the new owners’ plans and how these properties fit into the broader redevelopment of downtown.
Some of his downtown work intersects with arts and literary events, as seen in his pieces on local book briefs and literary activity tied to specific properties and venues. Even in these stories, the through-line is ownership, use and transformation of physical spaces, showing how cultural programming sits on top of ongoing real estate change.
Role in real estate journalism community
Beyond his daily reporting, Segall participates in the wider real estate journalism community. He moderates panels at real estate journalism conferences, leading discussions on how coverage of property and development is evolving and what data and sourcing reporters need.
He also appears on local real estate radio and podcast programs to discuss the state of the market and major deals in Las Vegas. His work has been recognized by the National Association of Real Estate Editors, which awarded him a gold prize for a commercial real estate story in its annual competition.
These activities reinforce his position as a specialist who treats Las Vegas real estate as both a beat and a lens on business, law and community change.
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Aaron Elstein
Aaron Elstein brings a Wall Street reporter’s eye to commercial real estate. He is a senior reporter at Crain’s New York Business, where he covers large office towers, Midtown corridors, landlords, lenders, investors and regulators. His reporting shows how ownership decisions, bank balance sheets, capital markets and regulation shape property values and risk. He also covers banking, finance and Wall Street, including bank mergers and investment firms. Before joining Crain’s in 2003, he wrote Heard on the Street columns for The Wall Street Journal and covered bank mergers for American Banker. Elstein reports by closely reading footnotes, contracts, regulatory filings and legal documents. His investigative work has examined executive payments, pension funds, tax enforcement and tenant harassment. His coverage places deals, disputes and enforcement actions within broader financial and property cycles.
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.
Aarthi Swaminathan
Aarthi Swaminathan is a personal finance reporter at MarketWatch whose distinctive beat connects residential real estate with household budgets. She covers housing prices, affordability, mortgage rates, financing, insurance, remodeling and the costs of owning a home. Her reporting examines overvalued and fast-rising markets, ZIP-code trends, second-home sellers, builders, developers and buyers facing higher borrowing costs. She also follows Gen Z buyers, owners trapped in weakening condo markets and neighborhood conflicts over development. Her work pairs data-driven housing analysis with detailed case studies of buyers, owners and sellers. She explains complex market data in clear, accessible language and writes news features, personal-finance explainers, Economic Report stories, The Big Move and New American Playbook. She won a silver award for Best Collection of Work by an Individual Covering Residential Real Estate.
Abbey Ferguson
Abbey Ferguson stands out for reporting how major commercial moves and redevelopment plans reshape the built environment, especially the real estate deals that reveal what land and retail space are worth. She covers Central Texas commercial real estate and development for KWTX, with recent stories on land valuation, major transactions, retail redevelopment, and infrastructure planning. Her work has tracked an $80 million data center site offer in Hill County, a prospective Trader Joe’s location in Waco, and a planning project using artificial intelligence to predict traffic patterns. She writes as a news reporter, staying close to the numbers, public records, brokers, officials, and landowners. Her stories turn contract prices, appraisal data, and listing history into plain explanations of what buyers are betting on and how those deals affect surrounding property owners and nearby businesses.