Real Estate Journalistsin Australia

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 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 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 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.

Caroline Zielinski is a property reporter at The Age who connects auction-floor detail with the social effects of housing costs, standards and design. She covers auctions, prices, interest rates and sales across the capital-city market and surrounding suburbs, as well as affordability, first-home buyers, generational inequality and the changing Great Australian Dream. Her reporting examines rental standards, regulation, build-to-sell townhouses, energy-efficient housing, building defects, high-rise feasibility and architecturally significant homes. She uses market data, regulatory research and human stories to explain what property trends mean for buyers, renters and owners. She has written for Good Weekend, The Weekend Australian Magazine, Sunday Life, The Copenhagen Post, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, ABC, SBS, Cosmos, Primer and The New Daily. She brings long experience in features, essays and long-form reporting.

Carolyn Cummins is a commercial real estate columnist who uses deals to show capital flows, investor strategy and changes in business property. She writes for The Sydney Morning Herald and sister mastheads as a freelance columnist and contributor. She has covered commercial property for close to three decades, including earlier work as a commercial property editor and business reporter. Her beat spans office towers, institutional assets, pubs, hotels, hospitality groups, shopping centres, retail precincts, mixed-use developments and specialised assets. She also reports on property finance, bank and non-bank lending, yields and credit trends. She tracks sovereign wealth funds, superannuation funds, private equity-backed groups, operators and syndicates. Her reported deal round-ups focus on sale prices, valuations, yields, tenancy, leases, revenue, tenant mix and performance. She writes concise market snapshots rather than opinion pieces.

Christopher Knaus is an investigative reporter who uses property, finance and law to show how powerful institutions affect vulnerable people. He reports for Guardian Australia on public interest stories involving land, housing, institutional property, welfare, energy, regulation and whistleblowers. His reporting on the Christian Brothers traced multimillion-dollar properties transferred for $1 while the order sought to halt abuse survivors’ claims. He broke major stories about Robodebt, documenting false debts, ignored warnings and the harm caused to welfare recipients. He has also covered Bernard Collaery, Witness K and Richard Boyle, plus corporate campaigns involving Glencore, CT Group and energy and housing regulation. He builds stories from title records, court documents, FOI material, internal emails, legal filings and whistleblower testimony. He follows cases over years, connecting institutional behaviour to public accountability.

David Bonaddio is a real estate reporter who connects auctions, housing data and personal case studies to show how market shifts affect buyers, renters and investors. He works across the Herald Sun, other major News Corp mastheads and specialist property titles. His beat covers auction trends, affordability, first-home buyers, borrowing pressure, renter-landlord disputes, prestige homes, celebrity property, The Block, commercial deals, urban development and property businesses. He uses clearance rates, listings, prices, surveys, regulatory data, agent and expert commentary, and individual campaigns to explain wider changes in interest rates, tax policy, lending rules and sentiment. His reporting makes complex issues accessible and links city-wide numbers to real decisions. He also has experience at major metropolitan newspapers and in property reporting across other markets, and is interested in podcasting, video and new formats.

David Sali is a senior features writer and editor at Ottawa Business Journal whose real estate and business coverage tracks how major deals, leases and leadership decisions reshape the commercial landscape. He focuses on organizations behind large property moves, connecting transactions and projects to their impact on tenants, investors and growing companies. His reporting centres on commercial, institutional and development decisions, treating office, industrial and residential segments as parts of a single market. He extends coverage into architecture, development and corporate strategy, explaining how acquisitions, mergers and expansion plans position firms. Alongside real estate, he writes about technology and high-growth companies with a strong leadership and governance lens. With three decades of experience in newspapers and multiple awards from the Alliance of Area Business Publishers, he favours scoops and detailed, interview-driven feature work built for clarity and context.

Elizabeth Tilley is a property journalist at realestate.com.au known for clear, data-driven coverage of Queensland housing markets across the full property cycle. She tracks price movements, affordability, buyer demand, listings and policy changes, including interest rates, borrowing power, stamp duty and the cost of moving. Her reporting examines correction-proof markets, long-term investment prospects and the forces behind slumps and recoveries. She also covers record sales, prestige homes and emerging luxury markets, grounding property stories in documented prices and comparisons. Tilley uses PropTrack data, suburb-level analysis, historical trends and expert research to explain what market changes mean for buyers, sellers and investors. She presents real estate video, social media and MC services, with a strong focus on property storytelling and on-screen communication.

Ellie Busby covers how property decisions, major developments and local governance shape daily life, with a sharp focus on the risks, failures and promises built into real estate projects. She reports on Sydney’s growth corridors, using regulatory records, planning schemes and personal stories to show what housing, infrastructure and council choices mean for ordinary households. Her work has tracked developer safety breaches, collapsed apartment projects, off-the-plan buyer losses, Sydney Olympic Park growth plans, ageing suburbs set for transformation, Western Sydney Airport flight paths, bushfire risk reclassification, public pool delays and council integrity matters. She writes in a document-heavy, plain-spoken style and ties official findings to clear accounts of how collapse, delay and defects affect people.

Emily Power explains shifts in Australia’s property market by pairing hard data with vivid stories from individual suburbs and standout sales. She is a specialist property reporter and editor with almost two decades in newsrooms, including a tenure as editor of Domain’s magazine, and now works as a freelance property journalist, broadcaster and commentator filing for Domain and other metropolitan titles. Her beat sits at the intersection of prices, policy and the decisions buyers and renters make, covering suburb-level price movements, prestige and heritage sales, luxury home buyers, interest rate and tax changes, and rental affordability and living costs. She leans on market research, sales evidence, economist commentary and survey data, using individual deals and clear figures to show how economic and lending conditions shape buyer budgets, renter pressures and wider housing trends.

Georgina Sebar treats every property story as part of a larger system of regulation, investment and lived experience, rather than just a record of sales or prices. She is a reporter at The Canberra Times covering property development, planning law and higher-density housing. Her work follows projects from application through redesign and approval, tracking how housing supply, commercial space and mixed-use precincts evolve. She reports on corridor apartment redevelopment, ACT strata inquiry reforms, build-to-rent projects and diplomatic precinct demolitions and rebuilds. Her coverage explains how rules, inquiries and market pressures shape density, street activation, office occupancy and tenant security. She writes in plain language, translates technical policy into clear consequences for residents and businesses, and keeps a strong institutional focus informed by a background in law and research. She has also reported on how online algorithms influence risky behaviour among teenagers.

Heloise Vyas is a journalist who treats real estate and consumer issues as systems shaped by policy, corporate behaviour and scams, following money flows and corporate accountability across her work. She reports for the ABC across digital, video, social media, radio and field formats, drawing on experience with news-of-the-day pieces, explainers, original reporting and live blogging. Her housing coverage focuses on rental markets, affordability and regulation, including detailed reporting on high-demand coastal cities such as the Gold Coast, where she maps rent levels, price variation and pressure points within suburbs and property types. She shows how tenants, landlords, agents and local planning decisions interact to shape available stock. Alongside housing, she covers delivery drivers targeted by phishing scams and misleading consumer claims such as garbage bags marketed as made from ocean-retrieved recycled plastic, and has reported on major hydroelectric projects and cross-border disputes, using direct language, data, enforcement actions and lived experience to explain complex issues.

Iris Hong covers how stress, capital and regulation shape Asia’s real estate market. She is a senior correspondent at Mingtiandi, reporting on real estate across mainland China and Hong Kong. Her beat centers on distressed assets, debt workouts, China developers, logistics funds and emerging REITs, plus Hong Kong housing and commercial deals. She reports with transaction detail, official data and governance shifts, showing how creditor action, price cuts, leadership changes and policy moves affect ownership, control and strategy. Her work includes Schroders losing a third Hong Kong property to creditors, a Shanghai office tower sold at more than a 40 percent discount, a Beijing developer chairman’s resignation, a logistics fund moving toward China’s first private-company-sponsored REIT, and Chinachem Group’s North Point flats purchase.

Jade Lazarevic is a property reporter who links real estate to the people behind it, using profiles of vendors and buyers to explain how money moves through the market. She covers residential and commercial property for the Newcastle Herald and related national property platforms, with a beat built around prestige waterfront real estate, investor competition, renovation-driven value shifts and landmark buildings. Her stories follow record-breaking sales, bidding battles on dual-income and income-producing assets, and campaigns for high-profile listings involving athletes, media personalities, designers and key retail sites. She reports with a transactional focus, treating addresses, auction results, guide prices, bidding depth, renovation uplifts and project configurations as a running ledger of what matters in the market. She has been with the Newcastle Herald since 2001, moved from entertainment to a national property role in 2022, and brings narrative skill to detailed coverage of lifestyle, hospitality and property campaigns.

Jamieson Murphy is a senior newsroom leader at the Newcastle Herald who uses real estate, major projects and business decisions to explain how Newcastle and nearby cities are changing. He focuses on the property market and large-scale development, tracking how planning approvals, infrastructure investments and industry leadership shape housing supply and the regional economy. His real estate coverage centres on the scale and timing of new housing, especially multi-hundred home projects in Newcastle and Lake Macquarie, and the issues raised by planning authorities and developers’ responses. Through his Hunter Means Business column he links housing and economic performance to ports, flights and civic infrastructure. He follows leadership changes in the property sector and the role of industry bodies in planning and advocacy. His broader regional news, rural affairs and national politics reporting background informs his coverage of development as part of a wider social and economic landscape.

Jen Melocco’s distinct focus is regional real estate and how prices, infrastructure and policy shape decisions for buyers and investors. She is National Property News Director at ACM, where she leads property coverage and strategy across its network. Her beat spans regional price growth, market hotspots, affordability, rental yields, first-home buyers, taxation, lending rules, construction innovation and lifestyle property. She reports with national data, suburb-level detail and local agent insight, connecting market movements to practical risks and opportunities. Her work also covers rapid home construction, heritage houses, luxury estates and other standout regional listings. She previously led Domain Magazine and Domain Prestige Magazine and published in The Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald. She brings more than 25 years of journalism experience across metropolitan and regional property coverage.

Joyce Moullakis is an investment banking journalist at The Australian Financial Review who uses banks as a lens to explain how complex financial systems affect investors and customers. She focuses on how banks, market operators and listed companies manage risk, capital and governance, linking banking sector health with mortgage markets, branch networks and real estate exposure on balance sheets. Her reporting tracks the outlook for the banking sector, the risks inside bank balance sheets and how economic conditions, regulation and risk appetite drive lending, margins and investor sentiment. She covers mortgage market structure, lenders mortgage insurance and branch ownership conflicts, and has a long record on investment banking, private equity and deal flow. Her work also examines governance battles at ASX-listed companies, market infrastructure failures, fund strategy shifts and global political pressures on banking and payments.

Kathleen Farmilo is a journalist and digital editor with Dateline at SBS who anchors complex topics in specific human situations and clear, verifiable detail. She focuses on explanatory features about housing, money and social systems, showing how what people pay and what they get shape everyday security. Her housing and real estate stories examine social housing, tightly regulated rents, and international investment schemes such as golden visas, using policy rules and price floors to explain property as infrastructure and “safe haven” wealth. She covers passports, documents and personal finance as part of the wider cost-of-living picture, and reports on mental health, online misinformation, crime, punishment and migration through clear explainers and intimate longform narratives. Alongside reporting, she shapes Dateline’s digital output, blending broadcast investigations with web-native storytelling and interactive elements.

Laura Waxmann tracks how capital, companies and city politics are reshaping Bay Area real estate, with particular emphasis on downtown San Francisco’s office and housing landscape. She is a reporter covering the Bay Area business community with a focus on commercial real estate, housing and land use politics. Her reporting appears in Yahoo Finance’s real estate and technology sections and in the San Francisco Chronicle’s real estate coverage. She covers large office leases, renewals and anchor tenants, major sales and investments at landmark properties, and real estate finance and private lending when deals or firms unravel. She links transactions to zoning, redevelopment, downtown recovery and housing debates. Her work combines deal specifics, tenant and investor strategy, legal and regulatory fallout and civic reaction, grounded in court filings, public records and market sources.

Liz Sauchelli is a calendar editor and staff writer at the Valley News who connects practical event information with reporting on civic life. She covers local services, older adults, education, community events, real estate, development and land use. Her stories follow how health providers, senior housing organizations, nonprofits and other institutions shape daily life. She has written about nursing assistant training, home care, town listservs, senior services and housing projects. Her education coverage includes student awards, scholarships, essays and graduations. As calendar editor, she produces event guides, holiday schedules, museum lists and “Out & About” columns. She also edits the quarterly Enterprise business magazine and Valley Parents. Her reporting uses straightforward prose, concrete details and service-focused explanations of decisions, programs, celebrations and community efforts.

Lucy Macken is a real estate journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald who examines how prestige property connects money, personality and power. She covers trophy homes, luxury sales and multimillion-dollar buyers and sellers, including celebrities, business leaders and cultural figures. Her work has appeared in The Sydney Morning Herald and Domain. She has reported on Russell Crowe’s apartment, Jennifer Hawkins’ mansion, $130 million double deals, $55 million trophy houses and runs of $20 million-plus sales. Her beat also includes contract disputes, failed purchases, fraudsters and buyer’s agents. She uses specific addresses, sale prices, legal detail, renovation costs, transaction histories and per-square-metre values to explain market trends and record prices. Her news features combine hard numbers with narrative storytelling. She also uses long-held homes, changing neighbourhoods and unusual owners to show how property reflects social mobility, personal change and the way people live.

Marc Shoffman links property market reporting with personal finance and tax, focusing on how regulation, affordability and agency practice shape outcomes for homebuyers, landlords and investors. He writes regularly for The Negotiator on residential sales and lettings, interrogating costs, delays and assumptions built into the homebuying system and treating affordability as a product of processes as much as pricing. His reporting on the private rented sector tracks how tax, regulation and market conditions reshape landlord behaviour and tenant outcomes, using a tax and investment lens for readers who view property as part of a wider portfolio. Across trade titles, including Property Industry Eye, he covers estate agency operations, branch performance, franchising, proptech and market moves. As a freelance specialist in business, property and personal finance, he has written for publications such as The Week UK, MoneyWeek, FT Business, The Times, the Mail on Sunday and the i newspaper, and co-presents the In For A Penny financial planning podcast.

Matt Mckenzie is a business journalist at The West Australian. He stands out for turning real estate and construction into a wider story about economics, regulation, and accountability. He covers housing supply, the building bubble, property, retail, major projects, insolvencies, energy, and planning rules. His reporting tracks policy, corporate decisions, market cycles, red tape, and who is responsible when pressures hit homes, projects, and businesses. He uses breaking news, analysis, and commentary, backed by data, industry voices, and concrete case studies. His work has examined bank analysis on home shortages, risks in construction booms, a data centre plan, and regulation affecting export trade. He focuses on boardrooms, regulators, and courtrooms as connected places where decisions are tested.

Michael Cole is the founder and lead analyst at Mingtiandi, an independent Asia real estate intelligence platform, with a distinct focus on how executive moves and leadership changes reshape major investors and operating platforms. He covers senior appointments and departures under Mingtiandi’s People banner and produces People in the News roundups that give short, factual summaries of who is moving, where they are going, and which part of the property market they oversee. His reporting tracks how strategy, regulation and operating performance translate into transactions and portfolios across Asian commercial property markets. He writes on market conditions, rents, values, capital flows and policy, and leads research-driven features on retail, proptech and living formats such as co-living and student housing. He also turns conferences and Mingtiandi events into analytical interviews and forum coverage with a strict focus on investment rationale, operating performance and market implications.

Nick Whigham is a business reporter whose distinct focus is on the real-world financial impact of property, tax and investment changes on households and everyday investors. He leads coverage at Yahoo Finance Australia on the junction of housing, personal finance and regulation, with a consistent focus on cost-of-living pressures and how readers can protect or grow their money. His reporting blends policy and market analysis with practical angles, turning complex changes in property, superannuation and tax rules into clear, impact-first stories. He often starts with individual real estate experiences, such as sudden capital works costs, and expands them into broader risks for apartment owners and ordinary property investors. He tracks structural change in housing supply, regulatory enforcement, superannuation reforms and ETF investing, using interviews with market participants and advisers to show who is affected, what it will cost or save them, and what actions they should consider.

Nicole Lindsay is a business reporter who treats commercial property as a story about major assets, capital flows and corporate strategy. She is a long-standing specialist in commercial real estate for The Age and sister mastheads, writing a regular column on capital movements in the sector. Since 1999 she has covered office towers, headquarters, retail strips, pubs, hotels and mixed-use developments, focusing on who is buying and selling, at what price, and why each deal matters for the market around it. Her reporting centres on transactions, landlords, tenants, developers, syndicators and institutional investors, with close attention to auction dynamics, sale prices, yields, leases, financing and portfolio reshaping. She connects landmark properties and well-known brands with the hard numbers behind them, using a transactional, fact-led style rather than consumer real estate angles.

Rachelle Kroon covers property through the fine print of mortgage lending, showing how loan structures, bank rules and buyer decisions affect real outcomes. She writes for Yahoo Finance Australia about first-home buyers, their regrets, decision traps, preparation and due diligence. She also examines changing lending rules and bank policies, including pre-approvals, investor lending criteria, redraw facilities and valuations. Her work covers investor strategy, location choices, equity use, portfolio growth and the trade-offs in long-term interest-only loans. Kroon co-hosts This Is Property as a mortgage broker, investor and founder of Sphere Home Loans. She explains technical changes, including self-managed super fund lending rules, through practical advice and real case studies. Her reporting is direct, numbers-driven and focused on clear decisions rather than property hype.

Riley Krause reports for Central Western Daily on real estate and the way homes, local projects and community life connect. He focuses on concrete places and events, from sale-ready houses and property incidents to community infrastructure, grassroots sport and youth programs. His work covers the housing market, the Orange Community Renewable Energy Park, football club activity and Boys to the Bush. He ties costs, timelines, locations and people together to show how fires, renovations, investments and social programs affect everyday life. He writes in a grounded, place-based way, using specific addresses, clubs and initiatives rather than abstract trends.

Sarah Richards is a multi-platform journalist with ABC News who reports on how large systems and policies intersect with everyday life. She covers housing and renters in the real estate market, focusing on the lived experience of tenants rather than treating property only as an asset class. Her stories use individual case studies, such as renters like Bernadette, to show how modest changes to rental homes and agreements affect comfort, security and autonomy. She explains in close detail how decisions by landlords, property managers and regulators translate into practical consequences for people trying to keep stable housing. Richards also reports on disability, including Indigenous disability-led research into the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people with disability in the justice system, and contributes co-bylined health reporting within a wider interest in disability, social media and politics.

Simon McCarthy traces how housing, infrastructure and everyday urban life intersect. He is a digital journalist for the Newcastle Herald, where he combines reporting with photography, video and multimedia packages. His beat covers real estate, local development, public spaces and the city structures that shape daily life. He reports on large housing proposals, state significant development, heritage battles, recreation sites and transport links, and he explains how planning, regulation and change affect residents. His work also includes investigations, history features, arts reviews and the Toohey’s News podcast.

Spencer Davis covers real estate for The Real Deal, and his work stands out for tying New York property stories to housing policy, tenant protections, and politically charged development fights. He breaks down city housing programs, follows affordable housing projects, and reports on how proposals affect neighborhoods, approvals, and public goals. He also covers distressed assets, major deals, retail leases, and city-backed grocery stores, often using NY Dirt and deal coverage to show who benefits, who pays, and how policy choices play out on the ground. His reporting is direct and concrete, with a focus on budgets, liabilities, operators, leverage, and the people caught in the middle.