Sophia Bertuzzi
Sophia Bertuzzi is a staff reporter at The Globe and Mail who covers real estate with a strong focus on how wider economic and policy forces shape housing and home finance. Her coverage stands out for the way it links interest-rate decisions, trade tensions and market sentiment to concrete outcomes for homebuyers, borrowers and property owners. She moves between data-driven reporting on mortgages and the economy and narrative features about individual homes, giving her real estate beat both macro context and human detail.
Interest Rates, Mortgages and Housing Activity
Bertuzzi reports closely on the Bank of Canada’s interest-rate decisions and what they mean for mortgages, bond yields and borrowing costs.
In live coverage of rate announcements, she writes segments explaining how stand-pat decisions affect variable mortgage rates and fixed-rate pricing through changes in Government of Canada bond yields. She contributes recurring pieces on the best fixed and variable mortgage rates, comparing offerings and situating them against central bank policy and market moves. In her work on housing, she highlights how a consistent policy rate can fail to give buyers confidence when trade uncertainties and broader risks weigh on sentiment and home sales.
She also draws out how unsold condo inventories and investor pullback in major cities reflect the accumulation of rate, market and demographic pressures on real estate projects.
Trade Tensions and Their Impact on Real Estate and Industry
A significant strand of her reporting examines trade tensions with the United States and their spillover into Canadian industries and housing. She co-writes coverage on Ottawa’s dilemma in choosing how to retaliate against U.S. tariffs, detailing which sectors are exposed and how different countermeasures could reshape costs for businesses and consumers. In work on threatened tariffs, she outlines the Canadian industries most likely to be affected, from metals and electronics to consumer goods, tying these pressures to employment, investment and regional economies. She reports on Canadian countertariffs taking effect on tens of billions of dollars of imports, breaking down categories, duty levels and the potential impact on prices of everyday items.
In sector-focused pieces, such as coverage of alcohol producers rethinking their main export market under U.S. tariffs, she shows how trade disputes force companies to revisit growth plans and market strategies.
Economic Data, Markets and Consumer Behaviour
Bertuzzi covers key economic indicators, including monthly GDP figures, to explain how growth is holding up against tariff headwinds and other shocks.
Her reporting on the Bank of Canada’s surveys details how oil price shocks have hit business and consumer sentiment and how these shifts feed into inflation risks and future rate paths. She extends this macro lens to financial markets, writing on how mining and energy stocks lift the TSX even as trade-war fears weigh on broader investor confidence.
In consumer-focused coverage, she tracks trends such as the Canadian travel boycott of the United States, identifying signs that the downturn in cross-border trips may be bottoming out. Across these pieces, she connects data points to everyday decisions, from investment and hiring to travel and major purchases.
Real Estate Features and On-the-Ground Reporting
Alongside policy and data coverage, Bertuzzi writes detailed real estate features, including a profile of an 1856 Georgian-style home that is brought back into the family and restored. In such work she focuses on architecture, renovation choices and intergenerational ownership, showing how personal histories and building details intersect with contemporary market realities.
Her reporting on housing often threads through stories of how trade disputes, tariffs and interest-rate decisions alter conditions for would-be buyers and condo developments. She also covers events that directly affect communities and property, such as floods in Cape Breton that prompt a state of emergency and cut power to thousands, underscoring the vulnerability of homes and infrastructure to extreme weather.
This mix of feature writing and breaking news gives her real estate beat a grounded sense of how policy, markets and shocks are experienced on the ground.
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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.