Teagan Sliz
Teagan Sliz reports on how the housing market shapes everyday life, using individual stories to explain the trade-offs between renting, owning and waiting on the sidelines. Her real estate coverage spans Toronto, the broader GTA and Ontario cottage country, with a consistent focus on how affordability, lifestyle priorities and new development intersect. Her work appears in Toronto Life and other real estate publications, where she connects market dynamics to the lived experiences of renters, first-time buyers and recreational property owners.
City of renters and ownership trade-offs
At Toronto Life, Sliz’s standout feature on “City of Renters” examines people who actively choose long-term renting over home ownership rather than treating rentership as a failure to buy. She follows several Torontonians through their housing decisions, showing how career plans, lifestyle flexibility and financial constraints inform the choice to keep renting even as ownership remains a cultural benchmark. The piece situates individual stories within a broader affordability crisis, but keeps the focus on concrete daily realities rather than abstract policy debates.
Across this work, she writes in clear, accessible prose that foregrounds the subject’s own reasoning about housing, not just market data. Her reporting highlights how renters weigh neighbourhood stability, commuting patterns and quality of life against the risks and obligations of ownership, making rentership feel like a deliberate path rather than a fallback.
This emphasis on agency and trade-offs distinguishes her coverage from more generic housing pieces that frame renting solely as a temporary stage toward buying a home.
First-time buyers and a changing condo market
In Toronto Life’s real estate section, Sliz profiles a 20-something buyer whose first condo purchase is made possible by a softer “sleepy” market and an unexpected cash windfall. The story parses how timing, financial help and local price trends combine to move a young tenant into ownership, detailing the step-by-step decisions behind the purchase rather than treating it as a simple success story. She uses the buyer’s experience to explore how family support, savings strategies and market conditions interact, showing that crossing the threshold into ownership is rarely about a single factor.
This kind of case study reflects how she covers first-time buyers more broadly: as people navigating a dense mix of emotional and financial pressures in a volatile market. Instead of focusing only on listing prices or investment upside, her work stays close to themes like security, independence and the compromises buyers make on location, unit size and amenities.
The result is coverage that helps explain why some young adults push into ownership despite high prices, while others remain renters by choice as captured in her “City of Renters” feature.
Development proposals, new builds and regional markets
Beyond Toronto Life, Sliz writes regularly about real estate for outlets that track new development proposals and regional markets. At Storeys and related platforms, her coverage follows Toronto and GTA housing projects alongside Ontario cottage country properties, mapping how different segments of the market move at different speeds. Her work for Skyline Recruitment includes monthly round-ups of major development applications, selecting standout projects that range from affordable housing schemes to multi-tower luxury condo plans.
These pieces sift through planning filings to show which proposals could reshape neighbourhood skylines and add new rental or ownership options.
Her cottage country and recreational property stories extend that lens beyond the city, showing how demand for second homes and seasonal properties affects local markets and construction trends. She treats these markets as connected to urban housing pressures, linking buyers’ search for space and escape to broader affordability and lifestyle dynamics. Across these outlets, her reporting combines project-level detail with an eye for who will actually live in these homes, keeping new builds anchored in the experiences of future residents rather than only in investment or design angles.
Multi-outlet real estate reporting
Sliz works across publications as a real estate-focused writer, with bylines in Toronto Life, Storeys and Cottage Life among others. Her cross-outlet portfolio allows her to follow housing stories from pre-construction proposals through urban rentals and into cottage country ownership, reinforcing a consistent interest in how people move through different forms of shelter over time.
Whether profiling renters, first-time condo buyers or purchasers of recreational properties, she keeps the reporting grounded in concrete decisions, trade-offs and lived experience rather than generic market commentary.
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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.