Riley Krause
Riley Krause reports for Central Western Daily on real estate and the way individual properties and local projects intersect with everyday life. His coverage treats the housing market, community infrastructure and grassroots organisations as parts of the same story, anchored in specific addresses, clubs and initiatives rather than abstract trends. He brings incidents, investments and social programs together to show how physical places and community efforts shape each other.
Property incidents and the housing market
Krause’s real estate work focuses on concrete events that affect homes on the verge of sale. In covering a freshly renovated house that went up in flames just as it was about to hit the property market, he links an emergency incident directly to the timing and expectations of a planned listing.
The headline itself frames the story around the disruption of a sale-ready property, underscoring his interest in what happens when real estate plans collide with unforeseen damage.
Community infrastructure and energy projects
Alongside individual property stories, Krause reports on larger projects that change the landscape around those homes. His coverage of the Orange Community Renewable Energy Park details its multimillion-dollar budget, the year it was first announced and its siting along a major highway, tying financial scale and location to the community it is meant to serve. By setting out costs, timelines and proximity to the city centre, he treats infrastructure as part of residents’ lived environment rather than as a distant technical project.
Grassroots clubs and youth-focused initiatives
Krause also writes about local clubs and programs that use physical spaces in ways that matter to families and young people. An article reproduced by a football club recognises his reporting on its activities, signalling attention to grassroots sport and the communities that gather around it.
In a separate feature on mentors who left trade work to support “disengaged” kids through Boys to the Bush, his credit on the accompanying photograph shows his involvement in presenting the people at the centre of these programs as clearly as the facilities they use.
Connecting place, projects and people
Across these strands of work, Krause’s reporting joins property-market stories, infrastructure coverage and community profiles into a single view of place.
Homes are not only assets but locations where fires, renovations and sales unfold; energy parks are not only investments but neighbours to existing streets; clubs and youth programs inhabit fields, sheds and centres that sit within the same map as family houses. This consistent attention to specific sites and the people who use them distinguishes his coverage from generic real estate reporting that stays at the level of price movements or market commentary.
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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.