John Donegan
John Donegan distinguishes himself through his focus on how real estate development intersects with socioeconomic equity and major civic events in Long Beach, moving beyond transactional property reporting to examine community impact.
Affordable Housing Advocacy
Donegan consistently covers housing projects serving vulnerable populations, documenting the opening of a 67-unit complex for low-income seniors and homeless veterans and reporting on the Long Beach Rescue Mission's new youth shelter expected to fill "immediately". His coverage of an "affordable housing project" highlights developers overcoming "lots of battle scars" and lawsuits before breaking ground in East Long Beach.
Olympic Development Tracker
He provides ongoing coverage of real estate transformations tied to the 2028 Olympics, including Denmark becoming the "2nd country to place its national house in Long Beach" and detailed reporting on The Pike's $50 million sale with plans for $20 million in improvements before the Games. His work connects international investment to local infrastructure changes.
Commercial Real Estate Analysis
Donegan examines commercial property shifts affecting city operations, such as weapons builders opening missile frame factories and Voyager Technologies' 140,000-square-foot facility. He investigates economic implications like Long Beach's request to "President Biden: can we have our $25.8 million now?" and logistics challenges regarding "where the trucks go when the Vincent Thomas Bridge closes".
Policy Impact Specialist
His reporting connects real estate to regulatory changes, including Long Beach's crackdown on "Problem Airbnbs with Stricter Rules, Enforcement" and coverage of a sales tax hike proposal "to protect healthcare". Donegan documents how city policies affect development patterns, such as the decision to "ban high-powered e-bikes on sidewalks" amid safety concerns.
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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.
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.
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.