Real Estate Journalistsin Canada

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 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 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 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.

Andrea Yu is a freelance journalist whose real estate coverage for The Globe and Mail uses detailed buyer case studies to show how specific budgets translate into real homes and condos. She focuses on affordability, treating each purchase as a clear before-and-after narrative where price, unit type, location and lifestyle needs are all visible. Her Home Run series follows individual buyers or households through a defined budget and search, then documents what they actually buy and the compromises they make. Her housing reporting feeds into broader coverage of affordability and access to housing. Alongside real estate, she maintains a wider portfolio across business, culture, design, health, food, drink and travel for general-interest magazines, drawing on prior staff roles and formal journalism training to keep her stories precise on numbers and grounded in everyday life.

Andrew A. Duffy traces who owns key assets, how projects are financed and regulated, and what those choices mean for communities and industries. He covers real estate and the local economy for the Times Colonist, after earlier work on sports and politics and a long shift into business and related beats. Since 2000 his focus has been the business side of the region, including financial malfeasance, property markets, technology companies, tourism and forestry. His recent work extends into municipal politics, homelessness, street disorder, land-use rules and inflation as drivers of building and investment. He reports housing targets and affordability with clear policy detail and plain language. His coverage of development projects, resort and hotel sales, industrial and commercial land deals and distressed assets stresses deals, timelines and regulatory context. His business reporting links corporate strategy to employment, investment and innovation.

Anthony Teles is a real estate and development writer and editor at UrbanToronto, distinct for connecting detailed project data with clear explanations of impact on neighbourhoods and infrastructure. He covers construction, urban design, and planning projects across Toronto and Ontario, working across hard news, site tours, and sponsored features. His beat spans new residential proposals, attainable homeownership initiatives, large master-planned communities, parks and public realm, and major infrastructure upgrades. He documents scale, location, unit counts, income thresholds, application details, and construction phasing, tying individual projects like luxury condominiums, LSQ, and airport terminal upgrades to wider housing supply and urban change. He also produces industry-facing features and client pieces on companies, projects, and real estate education, treating independent reporting and sponsored content within the same practical frame of people, capital, and policy in the built environment.

Barry Jordan Chong treats real estate as a junction of money, policy and lived space, tracking how buildings, funding and deals reshape the city. He is an associate editor at Toronto Life, working on stories about big housing and development announcements, notable properties and the people and pressures behind a tight housing market. His reporting leans on clear facts and concrete examples, from listing prices, square footage and parking spots to billions flowing from governments into new housing. He covers major moves by political and financial heavyweights as business stories as much as political ones, and writes detailed spotlights on individual properties that double as market snapshots. He also builds packages and Q&As that link housing to issues like shelter capacity, homelessness and local infrastructure. A former freelance writer, editor and researcher, he has contributed criticism and essays, including long‑form work for the Literary Review of Canada.

Bill Cary is a freelance real estate and lifestyle writer whose coverage is driven by architecture, history, setting and amenities rather than market statistics. He writes for Mansion Global and other publications, focusing on high-end residential property, home design, adaptive reuse and waterfront and resort real estate. His regular “Listing of the Day” features profile individual homes and estates, anchoring each in vivid structural or site-specific details and then running through price, room counts, square footage and standout amenities. He often traces a property’s design lineage or past life into its present use, and treats landscape, views and outdoor space as central to value and character. Alongside these pieces, he covers condo launches, amenity trends and gardening, home and lifestyle stories with the same property-first, everyday-use lens.

Brad Wadlow is a staff writer for MyCentralJersey who focuses on concise, transactional coverage of Central Jersey real estate, new businesses and practical local news. He regularly reports on commercial property deals, especially shopping centers and roadside retail sites, highlighting sale prices, square footage, tenants and the brokerage handling each transaction. His work includes detailed pieces on multi-tenant office and retail properties, as well as store openings that tie brand-name tenants to the wider life of their shopping plazas. He compiles structured home-sales roundups that list addresses and sale details without commentary. His beat also covers business openings, local consumer promotions and corporate investments into bricks-and-mortar incubator space. Alongside this he writes short community briefs on weather, lottery wins, events and traffic, emphasizing clear numbers, specific locations and straightforward explanations of what has changed and who is affected.

Carolyn Ireland is a real estate reporter whose work links housing-market analysis with closely observed portraits of individual homes and how they are designed and lived in. She covers real estate trends, buyer and seller behaviour and the visual and architectural character of properties, treating housing as both market and lived space. At The Globe and Mail she has a long tenure on the real estate desk, with recurring franchises that combine data, news and feature writing, including market roundups, Home of the Week packages and a column on moving decisions. She reports on Canadian housing and investment trends, mortgage rules, preconstruction condos and forecasts, often citing data and offering investment-oriented analysis. Her features span design-focused home profiles, cottage-country markets, seasonal dynamics, reader Q&As on housing and mortgages, and travel pieces with a lifestyle and visual emphasis.

Cathrin Bradbury writes about houses and the lives inside them, linking housing, work and aging rather than treating them as separate beats. She writes features and the “3/4 Life Crisis” column for the Star, covering housing costs, co-living, retirement, care, health, relationships and later-life change. Her work includes “The End of Retirement” in The Walrus, which earned a National Magazine Award nomination, and the books “The Bright Side” and “This Way Up.” She also writes about history, including the first long-distance call between Brantford and Paris, Ontario. Bradbury reports through lived experience, interviews, research, archival material and close observation. She connects structural issues such as housing markets, pension policy and injury prevention to specific rooms, routines and relationships. She spent four decades as an editor and newsroom leader before returning to feature and column writing.

Cathy Ellis stands out for reporting how policy decisions shape daily life in Bow Valley communities. She writes for Rocky Mountain Outlook. Her beat covers land use, housing policy, environmental decisions, parks management, wildlife and local institutions. Her real estate reporting focuses on the rules and mechanisms behind local housing, including Banff’s effort to end the “book-ending” practice used to keep some homes below market value. She has also covered Johnson Lake being drained to eradicate whirling disease, grizzly bears returning to Banff National Park, climate change shrinking Banff’s alpine meadows, Lawrence Grassi School’s student screen time rules, and Parks Canada matters such as Twin Falls Chalet. Her reporting is policy-focused, research-led and grounded in how official decisions play out on the ground.

Chris Fox is a managing digital producer at CP24 and CTV News Toronto whose real estate work combines market data, police investigations and public impact. He covers the Greater Toronto Area’s new home and condominium market, including sales volumes, pricing, historical trends and the effect of provincial policy. He has reported that new condo sales fell far below the 10-year average and has examined investment fraud tied to a developer, using police figures and charge details to show risks for investors. His wider work includes federal politics, live coverage of major sports and international tournaments, and an interview with Prince Harry. He has produced live blogs on an 18-inning Blue Jays–Dodgers game, World Cup matches, campaign days and counter-tariffs. His reporting leads with key figures and updates, then adds context as events develop.

Cindy White is a real estate and civic reporter with more than three decades of broadcast journalism experience, now reporting for Castanet on how housing policy and market forces affect everyday life. She covers the real estate beat as both an economic and planning story, focusing on “missing middle” housing, condo market pressures, rental gluts, and how council decisions and federal programs translate into attainable homes. Her work stays close to specific votes, program sign-ons, implementation details and local trends in pricing, vacancy and buyer behaviour. She also reports on infrastructure, transit contracts, airport expansion and maintenance closures, treating transportation hubs and construction sites as part of the housing and growth landscape. Her general assignment pieces span tourism, weather records, local business growth, public sentiment and sports, grounded in a long background covering major news events and their impact.

Clarrie Feinstein is a business journalist at the Toronto Star who makes housing feel both like a market story and a daily life story. She covers the real estate market, mortgages, tax policy, and regulatory actions, with a core focus on affordability, rent pressure, and the financial strain on households, buyers, renters, owners, and investors. Her reporting tracks rate hikes, appraisals, condo cycles, developer strategy, and lender decisions, and it shows how those forces shape monthly budgets and buying choices. She writes in plain language, using specific numbers, examples, and voices to explain trigger rates, amortization, pre-sales, and market swings. Her past work includes local news, politics, real estate, and healthcare.

Craig Patterson is a retail real estate analyst, publisher and reporter who covers how landlord decisions, store networks and brand strategies reshape the retail industry across Canada. He is the founder and senior editorial leader of Retail Insider, overseeing coverage while writing regularly in a single voice that blends analysis and reporting. He focuses on retail real estate deals, tenant mix and shopping centre dynamics, treating events like sales, collapses and portfolio changes as signals of structural shifts. He reports on store openings, closures and flagships, using individual locations to explain brand strategy, corridor change and competitive positioning. He tracks brand expansion, leadership moves, partnerships and category pressures, and covers retail technology and marketing tools that affect store discovery and shopper behaviour. His work spans quick news synopses, analytical features and photo essays, grounded in more than 25 years of studying the Canadian retail landscape as an analyst and consultant.

Dan Fumano treats real estate as a story about power, policy and everyday life. He reports and writes columns for the Vancouver Sun on housing, development and municipal politics, with a focus on how big investors, city hall and planning decisions shape the rental and ownership market. His recent work covers the rental market, ownership patterns, foreign capital, condo presales, inclusionary housing, rezoning battles and major megaprojects such as Jericho Lands and Broadway. He often uses data, registry records, tax figures and housing research to explain who owns land, how rules change, and what that means for tenants, landlords, councillors and neighbours. His reporting is clear and concrete, with a strong focus on policy and ground-level impact.

Daniel Wong is a data journalist at Better Dwelling whose work treats good news in housing as relative and tests market optimism against hard numbers. He covers the Canadian housing market through macroeconomic, mortgage, and household balance-sheet data, focusing on how rate changes, debt loads, and price moves filter through to borrowers and households. He reports on mortgage renewals as a structural feature of the system, using bank economics research to explain renewal risk and budget pressure. He also covers household net worth, market cracks, and affordability at cycle lows, blending official statistics, bank research notes, and national housing datasets. His stories start from specific data points and use clear, direct language to quantify pressure, highlight risk, and resist sentiment-driven narratives about recovery.

Dave LeBlanc treats real estate as a way to tell stories about architecture, modernism and heritage, focusing on how buildings are designed, adapted and lived in rather than on market movements. He writes The Architourist, a weekly column in The Globe and Mail’s Real Estate section, using individual homes, streets and structures to explore design ideas, history and everyday use. His beat centers on modernist architecture, heritage preservation and adaptive reuse, with features on projects like the FlexPlex, Skygarden House and the transformation of a “pokey old condo” into a modern home. He covers housing concepts, renovation stories, neighbourhood profiles and architect biographies, often grounding abstract ideas in lived routines. His work extends into radio segments, jury roles for architectural bodies and a public presence as an urban explorer and “Googie-hunter.”

David Greenspan is a marketing coach and founder of MindShare101 who writes a recurring column for Real Estate Magazine giving real estate agents direct, sales-focused advice. He focuses on mindset, habit and execution, using plain language and a blunt, story-driven style to push agents toward consistent prospecting and better marketing decisions. His columns, including pieces like “Greenspan: The broker who never saw it coming” and “Why so many agents feel busy… but are falling behind,” center on follow-up, database work, disciplined lead generation, productivity and focus. He treats prospecting, branding, follow-up and client care as long-term investments and ties every choice back to daily behaviour. His work reflects his coaching and keynote practice, where he helps agents and teams bridge online and offline marketing, manage pipelines and align all touchpoints with a consistent brand message.

David Robinson stands out for business and real estate reporting that follows the money, the policy, and the data behind growth. He is a business and real estate journalist and editor at The Buffalo News, leading coverage in the Buffalo Next section. His beat covers the Buffalo Niagara housing market, development projects, retail, tourism, the regional economy, energy, and personal finance. He tracks housing trends, affordability, public incentives, wages, and corporate decisions using concrete figures from local, federal, and industry sources. He reports on days-on-market, home price indices, tax breaks, and earnings changes, and connects individual projects to broader debates about market-rate and affordable housing. He has worked at The Buffalo News since the mid-1980s and has covered multiple economic cycles.

Ela Zawadzki covers real estate and design stories where architecture, landscape, and market value meet in distinctive homes and domestic spaces. She is an editorial fellow at Dwell, and her beat is real estate treated through detailed profiles of individual homes defined by their surroundings. Her professional background in interior design shapes her close attention to furnishings and spatial experience inside the spaces she writes about. In features such as an $8M retreat on San Juan Island, she centers the narrative on a single vivid vantage point, using setting and price to show how a property offers a particular way of living and a clear market position. Alongside listings coverage, she reports design news on the homewares and furnishings market, focusing on auction formats, categories, and how domestic objects move between personal collections and buyers. Her style is direct, restrained, and fact-forward.

Erica Alini links the real estate market directly to household finances, showing how housing costs, mortgages and policy shifts shape everyday money decisions. She covers personal economics for The Globe and Mail, with a beat between real estate reporting and service-oriented personal finance. Her work blends market coverage, policy analysis and practical guidance so readers see both the big picture and their own budgets. She reports on condo developers’ discount tactics and NDAs, weekly housing-market roundups, interest rate hikes, labour shortages in construction and competition among lenders and brokers. She focuses on young adults’ housing, the “new normal” of co-living, and the wider cost of living, including campground booking pressures. She leads MoneySmart Bootcamp explainers, has written Money Like You Mean It, and uses Q&As and online sessions to unpack tax rules, regulation and geopolitics through readers’ specific dilemmas.

Fallon Hewitt connects housing data and price histories with the lived experience of residents facing a correcting market and rising household costs. She reports on real estate and the local economy for The Hamilton Spectator, focusing on market shifts, affordability and valuation trends in specific neighbourhoods and individual properties. Her recent work tracks the housing correction since the 2022 peak, mapping where prices have fallen, where homes sit under key thresholds and how averages differ between areas such as Flamborough. She profiles individual homes and small multi‑unit buildings, treating listings as case studies in wealth, design and market dynamics. Beyond housing, she covers commercial districts, major employers, personal finance, crime, public safety, court cases and civic events, maintaining a clear, factual style rooted in verifiable detail.

Garry Marr connects property markets with personal finance, showing how decisions by developers, landlords and capital markets affect households and investors. He is a columnist at the Financial Post covering real estate, REITs, condo developers, vacancies, commercial property tactics, retirement savings and inheritance. His work explains risk, income, liquidity, market timing and long-term value, from shopping centres and investment vehicles to homes and household decisions. Marr previously spent many years as a real estate and personal finance reporter at the National Post and as a commercial real estate correspondent for a dedicated property news service. He covered landlords, developers and major transactions. He reports by starting with a concrete scenario, explaining the mechanics, and weighing the trade-offs for buyers, sellers, investors and ordinary savers.

Garth Turner is the creator and main voice of Greater Fool, a daily economics and real estate blog founded in 2008. He treats housing as a risky obsession and ties it to debt, investing, taxation and economic policy. He writes in a columnist’s voice, with data, personal finance rules and pointed commentary. His real beat is the structural risk of concentrated home wealth, not project news or monthly price data. He follows ordinary buyers, bidding wars, mortgage products, policy decisions, tax rules and the role of marketers, builders, lenders and media in pushing “buy, buy, buy.” He is also a long-time financial commentator and author of books on economic cycles, financial crises, personal finance and taxation, and he brings advisory experience from a large financial practice into his work.

Graeme Frisque covers the intersection of city hall politics, housing policy and everyday life for the Brampton Guardian, with a beat that spans real estate, municipal fees and neighbourhood safety. He focuses on how council decisions on development charges, zoning, bylaws and user fees translate into concrete costs and risks for residents, businesses and builders, backed by numbers, maps and clear explanations. His housing reporting follows the policies and fee structures under real estate prices, using regional data to compare affordability and linking price spikes to economic shocks and local planning decisions. He brings long-running experience covering municipal news since 2014 across community papers and specialty publications. He also reports and shoots photos for the Brampton Guardian and the Mississauga News, appears as an analyst and commentator on radio and podcasts, and holds a union leadership role representing newsroom staff.

Graeme Wood is an investigative reporter at Business in Vancouver who covers B.C. business and real estate through the lens of rules, subsidies and enforcement. His beat sits at the intersection of property, finance and regulation. He reports on mortgage fraud, broker oversight, securities enforcement, stock promoters, financial scams, developer subsidies and public funding for housing. He also covers legal advocacy and foreign-backed industrial projects when they affect business, law and property. His past work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New Statesman and The New York Times. Wood follows fraud cases, capital markets, regulators and professional bodies. He examines how public money, misconduct and institutional decisions shape the market. His reporting is document-driven and focused on decisions, consequences and gaps between wrongdoing and enforcement.

Guest Author is a recurring Daily Hive opinion byline on how housing, real estate and land-use decisions shape economic and civic life in Canadian cities. The work covers housing supply, affordability, rental policy, affordable housing projects, international student housing and modular construction. It explains how policy, zoning, investment, construction methods and infrastructure affect the homes delivered and their cost. Guest Author also covers mortgages, first-time buyer programs, family assistance and long mortgage terms. Broader subjects include industrial land, construction capacity, workforce culture, rail competition, passenger rail, AI housing scams, transit, parks, recreation, cultural venues, wildfire protection and neighbourhood planning. Notable pieces address Senakw, heritage and housing in the Greater Toronto Area, industrial investment leaving Metro Vancouver, and the Villages Plan. The reporting links policy detail to market structure and on-the-ground effects, using specific projects and clear cause-and-effect.

Howard Chai focuses on how real estate deals work, tracing projects and portfolios through planning, financing, legal disputes, construction, sale or collapse. He reports for The Globe and Mail on development, commercial real estate and housing policy, with particular attention to receiverships, distressed sales, credit bids, major projects, investment portfolios and lender strategy. He also contributes to Storeys, Western Investor, RENX and The Tyee, and runs The Realist, an outlet for detailed but accessible real estate news and analysis. Previously Western lead at Storeys, he was a finalist for the 2025 Jack Webster Award for Excellence in Business Reporting. His reporting relies on transaction data, court records, legal filings, policy documents and financial details. He explains who is building what, with which partners, on which sites and for what uses.

James Rodriguez dissects how structural shifts in the housing market reshape buying, selling, and living in American homes, with a focus on generational divides and industry power struggles. He is a real estate correspondent on Business Insider’s Discourse team, covering the national housing market and the most consequential storylines in residential real estate. His beat centers on generational housing patterns, including millennial homebuying challenges, the Boomer home dilemma, and the rise of Gen Z in housing. A second strand of his coverage follows battles over listings, commissions, and platforms, from lawsuits and listing wars to efforts to build an “Amazon of real estate.” He also reports on the end of easy house hunting and the risks facing buyers, landlords, and homeowners, blending reporting, analysis, and clear explanations that tie policy, legal, and corporate decisions to everyday consumer experience.

Jesse Thomas is a housing and real estate reporter and anchor for CTV Atlantic whose coverage follows how market shifts and policy decisions play out in households. He focuses on housing affordability, mortgage pressure and access to homes, using price data, sales figures, construction activity and personal case studies to show where the Nova Scotia market is tightening or easing. His stories track monthly sales numbers, listings and home prices, explain the impact of federal housing measures and follow development projects that reshape key urban sites. He reports on budgets, funding plans and programs like Build Canada Homes, translating policy language and macroeconomic trends into clear implications for buyers, renters and owners. Thomas works across broadcast and digital platforms, combining field interviews, graphics and concise writing, drawing on years of reporting and anchoring in another CTV market and regional outlets.

Jonathan LaMantia is a business reporter at Newsday who treats housing as a business system, using data, regulation and financial detail to explain Long Island’s residential real estate and broader housing economy. He covers home prices, rents, mortgage costs, bidding wars and record-setting sales, showing why homes have become so expensive and what that means for buyers and sellers. His reporting links the market to household strain, documenting renter cost burdens, Black homeownership gaps and housing discrimination cases, and grounding inequality in specific families, tenants and first-time buyers. He also reports on the real estate industry’s infrastructure, zoning, development tools, regulatory actions and affordable housing initiatives, and covers luxury sales and the Hamptons market. He brings a background in covering the business of health care to his housing beat, aiming to make complex market mechanics clear to non-specialists.

Joseph Quigley connects municipal politics to the realities of housing, real estate and local services, focusing on how decisions affect residents’ ability to live securely. He reports for NewmarketToday on council agendas, housing projects and the costs tied to homes, treating real estate as part of a wider system of policy, social services and equity. His background in small local newsrooms and across multiple beats shapes coverage that is both deeply local and attentive to marginalized communities. Housing affordability, shelter infrastructure and housing capacity are central in his reporting, which follows how public money and policy translate into units, beds and support on the ground. He covers regional funding decisions, supportive housing initiatives, land trusts, discrimination and civil liberties, and the costs of living, using policy analysis, data and lived experience to show how governance, workplace policy and services shape daily life.

Karen Longwell reports on how housing markets and local economic shifts affect daily life, with a focus on real estate in the Greater Toronto Area. She works as a photographer, editor and journalist, contributing real estate, business, public service and travel stories for insauga. Her beat is real estate, tracking housing, development and price trends, taxes and policy changes, and the building sector that underpins growth. She covers business openings and closures, commuter traffic data, public services under strain, hospital crowding, weather alerts and guidance for at‑risk groups. Her wider work includes travel, climate change, aviation and tourism trends and social justice topics, with past work appearing in the Toronto Star, National Post, This Magazine, blogTO, Travel Life, Nieman Lab and the Review of Journalism. She reports with specific figures, dates, locations and dollar amounts.

Kendall Collins is a Daily Hive staff writer whose distinct beat connects housing data with the neighbourhoods, projects, and amenities shaping urban life. She covers real estate and urban development, including market trends, prices, demand, home types, fastest-selling and most expensive neighbourhoods, luxury listings, new communities, condos, recreation centres, libraries, parks, roads, retail, and other infrastructure. Her reporting also includes things to do, travel, local getaways, insurance, business, and real estate technology. She has written for Daily Hive’s Urbanized coverage and other lifestyle platforms. Collins reports with clear, concise service journalism, using industry reports, digital real estate data, specific prices, percentage changes, days on market, and project details to explain how markets are shifting and how development affects daily life.

Kerry Gold is a housing and real estate columnist at The Globe and Mail, known for treating British Columbia’s housing market as a story about power, inequality and policy as much as prices. Her weekly column centers on Vancouver’s affordability crisis, the gap between rich and poor, speculation, foreign capital, displacement and renovictions. She uses specific homes and transactions to show market shifts, from firm sales in North Vancouver to softer prices in Kitsilano and second-home demand in Whistler, Vancouver Island and interior towns. She also reports on planning rules, tax measures, zoning, civic land deals and non-market housing, including the sale of 601 Beach Crescent. Her work combines property-level detail with context-rich reporting on how people experience the market.

Liam Newbigging reports on how artificial intelligence, real estate, and civic institutions reshape everyday life, treating technology and the built environment as part of the same local system. He reports for the Edmonton Journal, covering real estate, office life, and public services, with a focus on the downtown core. On his real estate beat he tracks who is returning to offices, who is closing up shop, and how those moves change storefronts and services. He also reports on public institutions, from second-language programs in public schools to how government power affects universities and campus food banks, through work at Edmonton Edge and The Griff. His coverage of AI-driven police body cameras links new tools to privacy oversight and working conditions. Newbigging’s broader reporting includes CBC, the Globe and Mail, and Edify Edmonton, moving between breaking news and longer investigations in a straightforward, clear style.

Marc Lee treats housing and real estate as part of a wider economic and justice agenda, not as a stand-alone market. He is a senior economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives who writes research reports, policy briefs and commentary on affordability, equity and structural reform. His housing work follows how tax policy, climate action and public spending shape who gets housed and on what terms, focusing on incentives, regulation and who bears costs. He reports on upzoning, land use and non-profit or public development models, capital gains and tax fairness, procurement rules, pension funds and fossil fuels, climate justice, zero waste, poverty reduction, health care sustainability and trade agreements. Across these subjects he uses long-form policy analysis to track how rules and fiscal choices shape risk, opportunity and housing outcomes.

Maria Rantanen is editor and reporter at Richmond News, where she continues to cover city hall while leading the publication. Her core beats are municipal politics and education, with reporting on council decisions, elections, schools and public services. She also covers community organizations, cultural events, farming, housing and property, including high-end listings that reflect wider changes in the housing market. Her work connects individual stories to questions about planning, infrastructure and the future of the community. She reports in a factual, process-focused way, tracking decisions, deadlines, responses and accountability. Her community stories explain how events and non-profits serve participants and families. She has worked in journalism for almost 20 years, including freelance and staff reporting, and joined Richmond News in 2018.

Mariya Postelnyak connects real estate, consumer systems and daily costs to the choices people make about homes, neighbourhoods and money. She is a consumer affairs reporter on The Globe and Mail’s personal finance team. Her beat covers housing costs, neighbourhood choices, family strain, consumer protection, complaints against institutions and cost-of-living pressures. She reports on housing markets, insurance disputes, telecom complaints, fraud, contracts, warranties, prices, wages and household budgets. Her work has appeared in Maclean’s, Toronto Life, BlogTO and the Houston Chronicle. She previously worked as an associate producer on CBC’s The National. She uses concrete numbers, price comparisons, reader experiences and case studies to explain how policies, corporate behaviour and market changes affect households. Her reporting gives readers clear information about rights, options, trade-offs and the costs behind everyday financial decisions.

Mary Griffin is a longtime CHEK News reporter who treats real estate as part of a larger story about economic change, policy, and everyday life. She covers housing supply and market cycles, including Greater Victoria’s housing inventory reaching an 11-year high and what that means for buyers, sellers, and policymakers. Her reporting links housing trends to the same local forces she follows in business resilience, trade policy, major projects, and infrastructure. She has covered fires, new U.S. tariffs, large investment announcements, extreme weather, transport route changes, and legal challenges to pipeline expansion, all with a focus on impact and stability. Griffin also follows long-running community stories and complex investigations, from a cross-Canada hiking trek to a rugby tour tragedy and major charity rides, bringing patience and attention to consequence across her beat.

Matt Wasielewski is a national reporter who treats commercial real estate as an intersection of finance, regulation and community outcomes rather than a narrow set of property trades. He covers how major real estate deals, capital flows and corporate decisions reshape commercial property markets across the United States. At Bisnow, he reports everything commercial real estate touches, from headline transactions to the executives, lenders and investors behind them. His beat centers on large office, residential and mixed-use deals, capital markets activity and institutional players across sectors such as single-family rentals. He writes breaking news, data-driven analysis and investigations that connect deal terms, debt and equity structures, regulation, legal battles, mergers and climate and affordable housing themes. His reporting style foregrounds numbers, counterparties and strategy, using concrete evidence and market statistics to show how big firms time and shape cycles.

Mia Jensen stands out for showing how buildings, streets and civic decisions affect business and daily life. She is a reporter with the Ottawa Business Journal, covering development applications, mixed-use towers, housing projects, retail corridors, tourism investment, growth companies and entrepreneurs. Her reporting connects planning documents, market data and policy debates to tangible changes such as new housing, empty storefronts, relocations and public amenities. She uses specific properties, businesses and civic initiatives as case studies, while also examining elections, zoning, affordability and long-term city-building. Before joining the Ottawa Business Journal, Jensen covered health, mining, business and the arts for a regional daily. She also worked in communications and cultural research. Her stories combine precise details, regulatory timelines and formal filings with market commentary and the experiences of employers, workers, entrepreneurs and residents.

Michael Smee is a reporter and editor in CBC Toronto’s enterprise unit who focuses on real estate and the fault lines where property, policy and community interests collide. He covers condo governance, public real estate disputes and municipal bylaws that shape how people live in the city. His work examines condo board politics, proxy controversies, court battles and building security gaps, including key fob vulnerabilities in highrise towers. He also reports on rural property disputes, heritage naming fights and conflicts around public buildings and land, tracing how ownership and governance blocks community use. His coverage of bylaws and corporate conduct includes stories on Tesla, protest “bubble zones,” suicide barriers on bridges and changing pool rules. He produces longer-form investigative and explanatory pieces, working across print, radio, TV and online, and often builds multi-part investigations using field reporting, documents and resident testimony.

Mike Pearson stands out for treating individual homes as stories, not just assets. He is a real estate journalist at Inside Halton, and his beat centers on specific residential properties, standout listings, and pop culture homes. He covers what makes a property iconic, from listing details and pricing to provenance, screen history, and defining features. His articles stay close to the hard facts, including sale price, status, and asking price, while explaining the character, scale, and appeal of each home. He writes in clear, accessible language and moves between lifestyle appeal and market detail, showing why a property attracts attention beyond the usual real estate audience.

Misha Gajewski is a real estate writer at blogTO whose work is defined by a direct voice on value and design in Toronto homes and condos. She covers standout listings across the housing spectrum, from multimillion-dollar luxury estates and time-capsule mansions to modest houses, rentals, and warehouse conversions, always weighing decoration, renovations, and asking prices against what buyers get for their money. Her beat is the full Toronto residential market, with a focus on price history, design language, and how specific properties signal shifts in luxury, mid-range, and rental segments. She treats architecture, interiors, and atmosphere as core subjects, walking readers through how a home feels, who it implicitly targets, and how its valuation has changed over time. A background in freelance journalism, podcast production, and multimedia storytelling shapes her candid, narrative approach to real estate reporting.

Natalie van Rooy is a multi-platform journalist and anchor who focuses on how policy, markets and public services land on people’s doorsteps. She reports for CTV News, with real estate as a through-line into larger questions about affordability, housing access and community pressures. Her stories follow families lining up for homes, residents fighting seasonal flooding and neighbourhoods adjusting to changes such as community mailboxes. She covers schools, buses and everyday services, tracking how legislation, school board budgets and transportation problems affect students and parents. Her reporting on health and safety highlights vulnerable residents, from the loss of Indigenous mental health programs to mobile addiction and homelessness supports and blood donation campaigns. She also covers crime and public safety incidents, and works across television and digital platforms, combining daily reporting, anchoring and producing in a clear, straightforward style that stays close to the scene.

Neville Graham is a business reporter at The Gleaner who treats real estate as a core business asset, explaining how property, finance, and capital markets interact. He focuses on specialist real estate finance entities and investment vehicles, tracking loss and profit figures, transaction sizes, and funding structures. His coverage follows companies such as Sygnus Real Estate Finance, First Rock, and Dequity Capital, showing how project pipelines, asset mix, and capital-raising drive returns. He reports on regional property portfolios and cross-border developments, including stakes in overseas complexes, Costa Rica projects, and roadside and logistics sites. Graham also covers operating companies as they use property deals to reset corporate strategy, and writes on earnings shocks, risk, and contentious matters involving investment firms and listed companies. He is a long-serving business reporter whose work blends deal reporting, company performance, and sector analysis.

Patrick Blennerhassett is a real estate and housing reporter who focuses on high-value property deals, strategic land plays and the money and projects reshaping housing. He is the real estate and housing reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He covers major hotel, industrial and infrastructure transactions, brokerage activity and regulatory decisions, tracking sale prices, investment logic and future development. He reports on new housing communities and build-out, including large-acreage projects and the premium cost of new construction compared with existing homes for buyers. He also writes about luxury listings and distinctive properties, from marquee waterfront estates to unusual high-end homes. He has worked as a newspaper journalist since the early 2000s and previously covered sports and politics, real estate, economics, trade and geopolitics. He is a four-time published author.

Rachelle Younglai follows the money, policy and market forces behind housing and commercial real estate. She is a real estate reporter at The Globe and Mail. Her core beat is housing affordability and access, with coverage of prices, rents, lending, development decisions, and the financial and regulatory systems behind them. She reports on federal and provincial housing plans, foreign-buyer rules, mortgage debt, the stress test, interest-rate hikes, developers, investors and landlords, and the office market. Her work uses hard data, policy detail and on-the-ground examples. She also covered Congress, economic policy and securities regulation as a Reuters correspondent in Washington.

Rob Dundas is a working real estate agent who writes as a consumer advocate inside the industry, focused on protecting buyers rather than closing sales. He is a columnist for Real Estate Magazine, where he covers consumer protection, the realities of entering the profession and how industry structures shape everyday transactions. His beat sits at the intersection of practice and policy, with recurring subjects including housing issues and the future of the real estate profession. Dundas uses direct, first person experience to challenge sales driven norms, argue for higher standards in representation and explain how buyers can be harmed when agents act like product salespeople. He also writes candid guidance for new and aspiring agents on the actual responsibilities, pressures and ethics of the job. His tone is direct and personal, grounded in his work advising clients and his background in writing, editing and marketing.

Ross Taylor is a mortgage and real estate columnist known for tackling hard-to-solve borrowing problems and personal credit challenges through detailed case-based stories. He writes regularly for Canadian Mortgage Trends and runs his own Ask Ross platform, covering mortgages, real estate, debt, and personal finance. His beat is complex mortgage strategies, difficult credit files, and first-time homebuyer rules, including refinances, second mortgages, debt consolidation, and changing policy incentives. He explains how mortgage tools fit into a broader financial plan, using plain language and step-by-step strategies for non-expert readers. His work highlights process risk, lender rules, and the impact of rate and market trends on individual borrowers. With more than three decades in financial services and mortgage brokering, his journalism reflects deep client-side experience and a strong advisory, service-driven approach.

Ry-Anne Lim is a housing and property reporter at The Business Times who stands out for data-heavy coverage of Singapore’s real estate market. She focuses on how policy, prices and investor outcomes intersect, using transaction records, consultancy research and university polls. She tracks private home resale profits and losses, including standout deals such as a major Leedon Residence resale, to show how headline prices mask divergent outcomes for sellers. Her beat spans housing market dynamics, investor behaviour, cooling measures and sub-sale volumes, as well as regulation, taxes and redevelopment rules that shape timelines and minority rights. She explains tax policies like Additional Buyer’s Stamp Duty remission criteria and uses structured sentiment surveys of real estate executives to connect macro risks and rate moves to market confidence. Her reporting is straightforward and analytical, informed by a background in government communications.

Ryan J. Ong is a partner and deputy editor at Stacked Homes who turns complex property policy, pricing data, and project performance into clear, practical narratives for home buyers, sellers, and industry professionals. He covers how regulation, market trends, and lived housing decisions intersect, using numbers and plain language to show how each market change affects real people. A central strand of his work is policy shifts and agent regulation, focusing on how new rules reshape incentives and transaction behaviour. He also analyses why specific projects underperform or outperform, from mixed-use developments and seafront condos to landed homes, and draws lessons for readers’ own decisions. Ryan uses detailed buyer case studies, retirement and cross-border scenarios, and neighbourhood profiles to map full housing journeys and district character. He has more than 17 years in real estate and financial journalism and previously worked with leading financial platforms and publications, including as content editor at 99.co and co-host of CNA 938’s Open House.

Saheed Oyelakin reports for Punch, with a distinct focus on real estate stories linking celebrity culture, online influence and property law. He covers high-value property deals, public gifting, land transfer and the legal and regulatory questions behind them. His reporting includes the ₦400m mansion gifted to TikTok creator Peller and his wife, and the title issues raised by the deal. He has more than two years of newsroom experience across metro, technology, sports, politics and human-interest beats. He also reports on policy, regulation, public safety, sports, entertainment, politics and technology. His stories use direct quotations, concrete figures, timelines and schedules. He writes clear, factual reports that explain institutional decisions and their effect on ordinary people.

Salmaan Farooqui covers mortgages and rent as part of a wider system of banks, governments, employers and households, treating real estate as a household finance problem rather than a standalone market. He reports on housing and personal finance for The Globe and Mail, with a service-first lens on how mortgages, rent and the cost of living shape everyday life. He tracks mortgage rates, rents and inflation and explains what changing market conditions mean for borrowers, renters and their budgets. His work includes weekly rundowns of fixed and variable mortgage rates, housing market corrections, rental affordability rankings, and features on large new rental developments. He also reports narrative personal finance features on life choices, including child-free couples and cross-border tax issues, drawing on a broader background in breaking news, features, corporate responsibility, race, law enforcement and organized crime.

Serah Louis reports on how economic conditions, housing markets and personal finance decisions affect households, with a focus on younger adults and women. She is a reporter with Moneywise, and her work appears in the Financial Post and Yahoo Finance. Her coverage includes housing markets, mortgages, real estate risk, debt, financial stress, wealth, interest rates, retirement funds, business sentiment, trade and corporate strategy. She has also written for MSN Money, Apple News, Money.ca, Half Banked and Ricepaper Magazine. Louis uses surveys, statistics and data to connect household decisions with wider economic effects. She examines generational gaps in homeownership, shifting money priorities, paycheque-to-paycheque living and the costs of financial stress. She also links central bank policy, pension fund performance, property values and corporate decisions to borrowers, savers and retirees.

Shane Dingman connects the financial and regulatory machinery of real estate with the lived experience of homeowners, renters and small investors. He is a real estate reporter at The Globe and Mail, with a background as a technology reporter, technology editor and digital editor at The Globe and Mail and the National Post. His beat spans housing market dysfunction, investor power, real estate finance, fraud, bankruptcy, rental pressures and detailed property profiles. He reports on structural forces driving prices and access, investigates major lending collapses and fraud trials, and examines regulatory burdens such as anti–money laundering compliance. He moderates industry discussions, joins panels and podcasts to answer reader questions on mortgages and market timing, and writes Home of the Week features that situate distinctive renovations and properties within wider market and policy trends.

Sobia Moman reports on Surrey’s housing and civic issues for the Vancouver Sun with a consistent focus on social issues and lived experience. She covers how real estate decisions affect essential workers and community life, linking municipal policy, affordability, and social services. Her beat centres on affordable housing as a tool to retain and recruit health-care staff, first responders, and other key roles, treating housing as both a labour and public service issue. She traces how city housing policy, zoning, and partnerships shape workplace stability, infrastructure, and community services. Previously, she covered local civic infrastructure, education facilities, community health and rehabilitation programs, public spaces, and community hubs. Her work has examined mental health assisted living closures, disability representation and inclusion, and victim support resources, earning a Canadian Community Newspaper Award. She built her career in community newsrooms and now brings that accountability and narrative reporting to Surrey’s real estate and municipal beat.

Sophia Bertuzzi is a staff reporter at The Globe and Mail who connects interest rates, trade tensions and market sentiment to real outcomes for homebuyers, borrowers and property owners. Her beat covers real estate, mortgages, housing activity, economic data, financial markets and consumer behaviour. She reports on Bank of Canada rate decisions, mortgage pricing, bond yields, borrowing costs, condo inventories, investor pullback and home sales. She also examines how tariffs affect industries, businesses, consumers, employment, investment and housing. Her coverage includes GDP, business and consumer sentiment, inflation risks, stocks and cross-border travel. She writes data-driven analysis and live rate coverage, but also detailed features about homes, architecture, renovations and family ownership. She reports on how policy, markets, trade disputes and events such as floods affect communities, property and infrastructure.

Steve MacNaull connects real estate with the business and lifestyle forces shaping how people live, shop, travel and drink wine. He is a news reporter, feature writer and wine columnist for KelownaNow and its sister platforms. Real estate and business are his core beats. He covers housing markets, local enterprises, wineries, wine, travel, resorts and leisure. His housing reporting examines sales trends, pricing patterns and whether recoveries rest on fundamentals or short-term sentiment. His business profiles focus on strategy, challenges, customer loyalty and concrete results. His weekly wine column covers producers, bottlings, tasting notes, awards and the beverage industry. His travel features cover destinations, activities, amenities and atmosphere. He previously spent more than two decades as a business reporter and columnist at a local daily newspaper and has written for travel-focused outlets and syndicated newspapers. He reports through specific people, products and places, using straightforward prose, practical detail and clear storytelling.

Sydnia Yu uses individual home sales to explain how pricing, competition and timing shape Canada’s residential real estate market. She covers real estate for The Globe and Mail and has reported on the beat since 2005. Her work focuses on specific houses, condos and other properties, the offers they attract, and the behaviour of buyers, sellers and agents. She tracks multiple offers, over-asking sales, price cuts, discounts, days on market, taxes and previous sale prices. She also examines how design, layout, lot size, location and other features affect demand. Her stories span Toronto and other Ontario markets, as well as Alberta communities. Each piece centres on one property, with clear transaction figures and a concise account of listing history, expectations and agent strategy, often including direct quotes from agents.

Teagan Sliz focuses on how housing choices shape everyday life, treating renting, owning and cottage properties as deliberate paths with real trade-offs rather than simple success or failure stories. She reports on real estate for Toronto Life, Storeys, Cottage Life and related outlets, covering Toronto, the GTA and Ontario cottage country. Her beat spans renters, first-time condo buyers, recreational property owners and new development proposals, with a steady focus on affordability, lifestyle priorities and market dynamics. In features like Toronto Life’s “City of Renters,” she follows people through concrete housing decisions, showing how career plans, commuting, neighbourhood stability and family support inform whether they rent or buy. Her reporting is clear and accessible, grounded in individual case studies, planning filings and project details, and always tied back to the lived experience of the people who will occupy these homes.

Victoria Nicolaou reports on distinctive homes and local institutions with a focus on clear, practical detail and how properties and projects work in everyday life. She is a reporter at the St. Catharines Standard covering real estate features, land and acreage listings, and explanatory pieces on funding and infrastructure around regional colleges and research facilities. Her real estate work centres on higher-value residential listings and rural holdings, using numbers, layout, dimensions, amenities, zoning hints and nearby infrastructure to show value, investment potential and fit. She writes in a straightforward, sales-sheet style without promotional language. Beyond homes, she covers development and regional land use, Niagara College funding and its research greenhouse, and occasionally contested topics that draw organized public responses, placing her at the intersection of property coverage, institutional reporting and community accountability.

Viva Hyde is a senior real estate reporter who treats property as a hard news beat, using homes, builders and suburbs to track risk, regulation and market change. She works as a senior real estate journalist across News Corp titles including Realestate.com.au, after roles as a cadet at the Daily Telegraph, a features editor in China and a real estate reporter at the Gold Coast Bulletin, and is a Walkley Award co-recipient. Hyde covers how property markets, consumer risk and lifestyle intersect, reporting on investment trends, affordability, rent-versus-buy shifts and construction quality. She combines data-led analysis and clear explanations of numbers with narrative features built around individual homes and families, naming streets and suburbs and anchoring stories in yield shifts, break-even dates, hotspot rankings, guarantor loans and the systems that protect buyers and owners.

Yousaf Iqbal links housing policy decisions to how the market actually behaves, showing what measures like the foreign buyer ban mean for prices, sales and the condo segment in practice. He is a recurring opinion contributor to Real Estate Magazine and leads IQI Canada, the arm of real estate technology group Juwai IQI focused on the Canadian market. He turns macro shifts into concrete implications for brokers, investors and developers, concentrating on demand, financing and regulation. He covers real estate with an emphasis on Canadian housing policy, affordability pressures and the operational realities of running a brokerage team. His work tracks housing cycles, bubble risk, zoning rules, financing conditions, sales, price trends and signs of stabilisation, using data points and recent market cycles to map where risks and opportunities sit in Canada’s housing system.