Heloise Vyas
Heloise Vyas covers the pressures and mechanics of the housing market, using detailed reporting on rentals, affordability and regulation to show how property decisions affect people’s daily lives. Her work at the ABC spans digital, video and live formats, with stories that connect local real estate trends to broader economic and consumer issues. She treats real estate as a system shaped by policy, corporate behaviour and emerging scams, rather than a standalone market.
Gold Coast rental market and housing affordability
Vyas reports closely on rental dynamics in high-demand coastal cities, including work on the Gold Coast where she examines why it ranks among the most expensive rental markets and how prices vary across suburbs and property types.
She focuses on the spectrum of rent levels within a single region, looking at where pressure is most acute and where pockets of relative affordability remain. Her real estate coverage ties price movements to practical consequences, such as how tenants navigate rising costs, what levers landlords and agents pull, and how local planning decisions shape the available stock.
Delivery drivers, scams and consumer protection
Alongside housing, she covers stories where technology, work and finance intersect, including a video report on delivery drivers whose earnings are stolen through sophisticated phishing scams targeting gig-economy platforms.
In that piece she tracks how scams are structured, how they spread among drivers, and what platforms and regulators do in response. Her reporting on the consumer watchdog’s multimillion-dollar penalty against Clorox for falsely marketing GLAD garbage bags as made from ocean-retrieved recycled plastic shows the same interest in enforcement and misleading claims, linking regulatory action to real-world impacts on shoppers and brands.
These stories position her as a reporter who follows money flows and corporate accountability, a useful lens when covering property companies, landlords or developers.
Hydroelectric projects and global disputes
Vyas has also filed international coverage, including a report on Ethiopia opening Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam after years of controversy over its environmental impact and downstream water rights. In that work she engages with cross-border tensions, infrastructure financing and the long timelines of large projects, themes that mirror debates around major residential developments and urban expansion. Her ability to explain how single assets reshape regions and relationships transfers cleanly to coverage of large-scale housing projects, density changes and new estates.
Digital, video and live coverage across platforms
Vyas works as a journalist for the ABC, producing stories for digital, social media, radio and field reporting. Her background includes writing news-of-the-day pieces, explainers, original reporting and live blogging for the ABC’s online coverage.
The delivery-driver scam story is presented in video format, with a focus on clear narrative and on-the-ground voices. Her real-time updates and live commentary work, including coverage that discusses increased housing density, larger apartments and conversations between councils and developers, reflect comfort with fast-moving stories where audience questions and policy responses unfold in public.
Across formats, she keeps language direct and uses data, enforcement actions and lived experience to make complex housing and consumer issues legible.
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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 Delaney
Caroline Delaney is a senior property and features journalist at the Irish Examiner whose work links individual homes, damaged houses and outdoor spaces to the wider housing landscape. She covers residential listings with clear, price‑led pieces on specific homes coming to market, highlighting core details such as guide price, size, house type and a plain sense of location. Her property features look at fire damage and repair, treating house fires as a structural issue for the housing market and following cases through court proceedings and the process of putting homes right. She also reports on outdoor spaces and synthetic lawns, including environmental experts’ views on plastic turf in domestic gardens. Her news and features background keeps the tone fact‑led rather than promotional and gives her coverage a practical focus on aspiration, risk and everyday use of housing.