Mike Pearson
Mike Pearson is a real estate journalist at Inside Halton whose coverage centres on individual residential properties and the stories that make them stand out. He writes about homes as more than assets, treating listing details, pricing and provenance as a narrative that connects buyers to the character of a place.
Pop culture homes and standout listings
Pearson’s work includes coverage of high-profile listings with a clear cultural hook, such as the Ontario home featured in the television series “Gilmore Girls” that went on the market for $3.88 million. In this type of piece he draws attention to what makes a property iconic, balancing its screen history with the realities of the current listing and market expectations. His reporting stays close to hard details - sale price, status, and defining property features - while explaining why a particular home attracts attention beyond the usual real estate audience.
Property-focused real estate reporting
On the real estate beat, Pearson’s emphasis is on the individual home rather than abstract market commentary. His articles are structured around specific addresses coming to market, using the listing as a frame to convey the character, scale and standout qualities of the property. He writes in clear, accessible language that surfaces the elements buyers look for - how a home presents, what sets it apart in its segment, and how its story and specifications justify the asking price.
Connecting lifestyle and market detail
Pearson’s coverage links lifestyle appeal with concrete market information, giving readers enough detail to understand both the emotional draw of a property and the financial commitment it represents. He moves between description and data, pairing narrative elements such as cultural significance or atmosphere with facts like price points and listing context. The result is real estate coverage that serves readers choosing where to live or invest, while still articulating why a given home resonates beyond its square footage.
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Addie Morfoot
Addie Morfoot covers how real estate, culture and media meet, focusing on people, rules and the way homes shape a life. She reports for The New York Times on housing and lifestyle, from personal narratives about finding a home after loss to features on how short-term rental policy affects everyday owners and renters. She writes real estate stories that connect laws and regulations to the choices available to ordinary residents in specific towns and cities. She is a regular contributor to the Sunday Routine franchise, following actors, comedians and designers through a typical day and showing how settings like homes, studios and subway cars shape daily experience. She also has a long track record covering documentary film and the entertainment business, including legal questions around fair use, changing docu-series formats, festival premieres and financing. Her portfolio spans more than two decades of work for The New York Times, Variety, The Wall Street Journal and Crain’s New York Business.
Alcynna Lloyd
Alcynna Lloyd is a real estate reporter and economic journalist at Business Insider whose work is distinct for treating housing as a core economic system people must navigate. She covers how housing markets, costs, and mobility shape everyday life decisions, connecting data on rents, home prices, and city trends with stories of people managing debt, multigenerational living, and moves abroad. Her beat centers on housing costs, renters, and household strategies, following renters pushing back against landlords and tracking “desperate home sellers” using concessions in unaffordable markets. A second strand of her coverage focuses on relocation, remote work, and cheap cities as everyday economic strategies. She regularly uses rankings and lists, such as best and worst states to buy a home and Rising Stars of Real Estate, and reads city housing and migration shifts as signs of broader economic change.
Alec Lazenby
Alec Lazenby covers how provincial politics and government decisions shape housing, real estate and the wider social fabric. He reports for The Vancouver Sun from the provincial legislature. His work examines HousingHub, middle-income rentals, affordability, stalled projects, empty condos, developer layoffs, municipal housing targets and land use. He also covers health, addiction, safer supply, involuntary care, water rights, resource management, Indigenous rights and Crown land. Lazenby connects policy language to specific buildings, rents, projects, services and people. He explains financial, regulatory and market pressures, then follows how institutions, professionals, developers, municipalities and affected communities respond. His reporting tests government goals against practical outcomes and shows how policy reversals, construction costs, interest rates and political accountability shape housing and public life.
Amir Ali
Amir Ali links housing, disputes, and oddball neighbourhood stories in case-based, street-level reporting for Daily Hive. He holds a senior editorial and writing role, listed on the masthead as part of Vancouver leadership and described as a staff writer. His core beat is real estate, especially the rental market and housing affordability, tracking rent ranges, market shifts, and how pressures land on people trying to stay housed. He also covers crime, civil tribunals, and mental health, explaining decisions and conflicts in plain language that focuses on timelines, behaviour, and outcomes. Ali writes offbeat hyperlocal features, traffic and transport disruptions, business, food, and general local news, often turning infrastructure, small businesses, and civic systems into tangible stories. A former radio producer, he brings tight pacing and clear stakes to written pieces and maintains an active social media presence as a broadcaster and writer.