Jordan Pandy
Jordan Pandy is a real estate reporter at Business Insider who focuses on how moves, housing choices, and property strategies reshape people’s lives. His coverage centers on moving trends, from remote work relocations to house hacking, and the emotional and financial trade-offs that come with uprooting. He mixes narrative as-told-to features with data-driven explainers and industry reporting, linking individual decisions about where to live or invest to wider housing-market and property-technology shifts.
Moving for Affordability
Pandy regularly reports on people who relocate to unlock a more affordable life and new financial possibilities. In one feature, he profiles a longtime New Yorker who moves to Kentucky, trades a coastal cost of living for lower housing expenses, and starts to see early retirement as realistic.
In another, he follows a Cleveland native who leaves Atlanta for Panama City and builds a sense of community and stability abroad after a spontaneous move.
His work also includes the story of a teacher and entrepreneur who falls in love with Taiwan during a layover, later relocating to Taipei and navigating the practical realities of building a life there. Across these pieces, he keeps the focus on how housing costs, neighborhood dynamics, and cross-border moves change both day-to-day life and long-term plans.
Gen Z Real Estate Investing
Pandy highlights a rising generation of real estate players who treat property as their main career, not just a side investment. He documents a young landlord who buys a first investment property while still in college, moves across the country after graduation, and builds a portfolio of more than 30 homes alongside a property-management operation. He also tells the story of a 20‑something principal stepping into her father’s real estate investment firm after his death, taking over development projects such as a residential building in Coconut Grove and using completion of that work as a way to grieve and claim her own path in the business.
In another feature, he follows a social‑media‑inspired purchase of a 17‑room home in Sicily by a young buyer who leaves Los Angeles, trading a year’s worth of rent for a low purchase price and a demanding renovation budget. Beyond individual profiles, he helps lead nominations for a “Rising Stars of Real Estate” list, seeking trailblazers under 35 who are reshaping commercial and residential markets.
Together, these stories show his interest in ambition, risk, and the early career decisions that pull younger people into real estate.
Global Relocation and House Sitting
Pandy’s beat extends to unconventional ways people secure housing and travel without traditional renting or homeownership.
He has written a reported guide on long-term house sitting, drawing on the experience of someone who has stayed in 13 countries for free and distilling practical steps for finding placements and building trust with homeowners. That piece sits alongside his relocation narratives to Taiwan and Panama, giving a fuller picture of how people use flexible housing arrangements to see the world, manage budgets, and maintain a sense of home across borders. His tone stays pragmatic, focused on the mechanics of visas, rent, and responsibilities rather than lifestyle gloss.
Housing Market and Property Technology
Pandy also covers the structural side of housing, from market metrics to the infrastructure and technology around property. He has analyzed data from a rental platform to identify the US cities where buying a home is financially favored over renting and the cities where renting is the better deal, relying on price‑to‑rent ratios across dozens of large markets.
On the asset side, he reports on wealthy collectors who buy specialized condominiums designed for cars, examining how these garage‑like communities turn storage into a luxury real estate amenity. His interest in property technology appears in coverage of a pro‑data‑center gathering in Washington, DC, where industry figures celebrate their political wins and discuss how large computing facilities integrate into communities. He has also written about Bitcoin ATM fraud hitting record levels, underscoring how financial and digital infrastructure tied to physical kiosks can become a target for crime.
Beyond his current role, he has experience covering luxury real estate in South Florida for The Real Deal and has moderated a panel on fractional real estate investing at the Blueprint technology conference, reinforcing his familiarity with both high‑end property markets and emerging ownership models.
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Aaron Elstein
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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.
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
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