Real Estate Journalistsin the USA

Aaron Moselle covers housing and community development for WHYY’s PlanPhilly, filing for radio and the web. He stands out for connecting market data and government action to displacement, affordable homes, and the daily questions facing renters and homeowners. His core beat is housing affordability and market strain, including high mortgage rates, rising prices, tax assessments, and what they mean for buyers, sellers, and renters. He also reports on preserving and creating affordable housing, neighborhood rehab efforts, major real estate deals, and the effect of property sales on residents. His work often uses direct sourcing, plain language, and service journalism to make policy and finance clear.

Abbey Ferguson stands out for reporting how major commercial moves and redevelopment plans reshape the built environment, especially the real estate deals that reveal what land and retail space are worth. She covers Central Texas commercial real estate and development for KWTX, with recent stories on land valuation, major transactions, retail redevelopment, and infrastructure planning. Her work has tracked an $80 million data center site offer in Hill County, a prospective Trader Joe’s location in Waco, and a planning project using artificial intelligence to predict traffic patterns. She writes as a news reporter, staying close to the numbers, public records, brokers, officials, and landowners. Her stories turn contract prices, appraisal data, and listing history into plain explanations of what buyers are betting on and how those deals affect surrounding property owners and nearby businesses.

Alcynna Lloyd reports on how housing markets shape people’s lives, focusing on the real decisions and trade-offs behind buying, renting, and moving home. She is a real estate reporter at Business Insider, where she writes about homebuying behavior, tiny homes, and multi-generational housing as part of the economy team’s coverage of real estate and the rental market. Her core beat is the consumer side of housing, with an emphasis on affordability and how market conditions affect ordinary buyers and renters. She writes analytical service pieces that compare different markets and track moves, migrations, and life changes tied to housing. Her stories combine economic context, market data, and detailed personal narratives, and she also covers startups and rising real estate talent to show how industry decisions affect everyday housing choices.

Aldo Svaldi treats residential real estate as a window into the Colorado economy, explaining how housing trends reflect jobs, income, business activity and public policy. He is a long-tenured business reporter who covers the Colorado economy, economic development and residential real estate. His beat centers on mortgage costs, construction pipelines, buyer behavior and banking, with a focus on housing pressures and affordability. He reports on segments such as entry-level, move-up and higher-end homes, showing how financing costs, supply constraints and demand shifts affect each. His work is data-forward, using economic indicators, reports and forecasts to track cycles, turning points and structural issues. He scrutinizes research findings and pairs expert analysis with interviews and on-the-ground observations to show how policy, corporate moves and financial decisions shape housing demand, prices and development patterns.

Alexis Weisend focuses on the business side of housing, showing how real estate markets, technology and policy decisions shape daily life for buyers, renters and small businesses. She is a business reporter at The Seattle Times, currently filling in as the real estate reporter, building on work covering housing affordability, home sales trends and rental challenges. Her beat centers on single-family rentals, Gen Z paths to homeownership, and the business of platforms like Zillow and Redfin, including antitrust and labor impacts. She extends coverage into short-term rentals and small business resilience. Her reporting pairs detailed market and regulatory analysis with lived experience interviews, long-range data comparisons, case studies and reader callouts, including outreach to adjustable-rate mortgage holders and social media buyers and sellers. Her feature on Gen Z homeowners has received national recognition for turning complex housing finance into accessible, grounded stories.

Allaire Conte treats homeownership as a financial system, tracking who builds wealth, who is shut out, and how changing rules and market dynamics shift opportunity. She is a senior advice writer covering real estate and personal finance trends, connecting housing costs, mortgage rates, regulation, affordability, and local supply to everyday decisions for buyers, sellers, and owners. Her reporting relies on national housing data and weekly and monthly indicators, breaking down prices, inventory, and rate moves into clear takeaways about negotiating power and timing. She writes data-grounded advice on when to buy, how sellers misprice homes, and whether manufactured and mobile homes can build wealth. Her beat also includes how design, transit access, and smart-home and accessibility features influence long-term livability, energy costs, and home value, informed by prior editorial roles in real estate and home services.

Allison Pries connects housing data with the lived experience of New Jersey families, showing how the state’s real estate market shapes everyday life. She covers residential real estate for NJ.com, a beat she has held since the pandemic. Her reporting links price trends, affordability and demographic shifts to specific properties, from shore tear-downs to historic Victorians. She documents rising home prices, tight inventory and intense competition, using metrics, polls and market reports to explain what they mean for buyers and sellers. She focuses on multi-generational living, changing home needs and listings marketed as multi-generational. She spotlights Jersey Shore and other distinctive homes, including culturally notable properties, and examines housing equity, racial gaps in homeownership and specialized developments such as housing for adults with autism.

Amy S. Rosenberg is a culture and identity reporter and staff writer at The Philadelphia Inquirer. She stands out for using Jersey Shore real estate and shore houses to tell deeper stories about changing times, local life, Atlantic City, beach culture, and the seasonal economy. She covers shore housing, pricing, policy, climate, resilience, and the social rules of shared shore living. Her work includes features, service pieces, advice columns, and “How I Bought This House” stories. She reports through specific houses, blocks, menus, and reader dilemmas, turning property into a way to show how people live, adapt, and make decisions at the Shore.

Andrew Rice’s most distinctive work is his long-running coverage of the Midtown project and Bayside redevelopment, treating it as both a real estate saga and a test of city planning. He is a staff writer at The Portland Press Herald who covers the city of Portland, with a focus on city hall decisions that shape land use, housing, homelessness and public services. He follows major real estate projects from policy debate to physical impact, explaining complex plans in plain terms and returning to the same sites over years as partners and public sentiment shift. His reporting links council votes, contracts and funding to concrete outcomes such as shelter capacity, neighborhood character and the use of public land. He builds stories around documents, data and public input, quoting survey results, meeting testimony and neighborhood reactions to show how development and civic space decisions affect residents.

Andy Ashby is a commercial real estate reporter at The Daily Memphian. He covers commercial real estate and economic development, with a focus on deals, redevelopment, retail and restaurant projects, industrial sites, and the way new projects change nearby streets, tenants, investors, and development patterns. His reporting tracks what is being bought, built, or reimagined, and he often uses transaction terms, project details, and his own photography to show how specific properties and corridors are evolving. He has more than one hundred articles under his byline and also appears on the AM/DM podcast to explain real estate trends. Earlier, he reported for the Memphis Business Journal, Memphis Daily News, DeSoto County Tribune, and Southern Brew News.

Benjamin Brown is a senior reporter at the California Post whose work stands out for tracing how California real estate, politics, and daily life collide. He focuses on housing flashpoints, public officials, and cultural controversy, using streets, buildings, neighborhoods, and data to show how policy, money, and power shape life on the ground. He has written on stalled luxury townhouses in Los Angeles, the Sunset Strip’s “for lease” overhaul, California’s housing and tax pressures, Mayor Karen Bass’s response to the Palisades fire questions, and Jennifer Newsom’s attack on Donald Trump. He also covers campus speech disputes and other flashpoint stories, often drawing on official records, migration data, and interviews with planners, tax specialists, and other sources.

Brendel Clark connects metro Detroit’s housing market to the daily life of its neighborhoods, using distinctive homes and detailed community portraits to explain what changing prices and development mean for residents. She is a real estate reporter on the business team at the Detroit Free Press, focusing on housing trends, home prices, inventory, sales activity, development and the broader local real estate scene. Her work blends market statistics, standout properties and small-city profiles with clear, practical service pieces for buyers and sellers. She explains competitive conditions in plain language, offers step-by-step guidance on financing and inspections, and uses unconventional homes and historic estates to make questions of affordability, taste and investment concrete. Under her previous byline, Brendel Hightower, she has also reported on community events, culture, public memory and edited stories across beats.

Bryan Clark is an opinion writer who dissects how Idaho laws and political fights translate into concrete consequences for homeowners, patients, students and rural communities. He writes for the Idaho Statesman, focusing on the point where state policy, power and ideology meet everyday life, often through detailed legislative and budget analysis. With more than a decade in journalism, and awards for politics columns and an editorial on pregnancy doctors leaving under abortion restrictions, his main canvas is state governance and its ripple effects. His work includes collaborative investigative reporting on special education failures, and regular coverage of education vouchers, healthcare regulation, property taxes, land use, the religious right and culture-war politics. As part of the Idaho Way opinion team and editorial board, and an officer in a local news guild, he pairs sharp criticism with clear, explanatory reporting and a strong accountability focus.

Carmel Richardson writes about the moral and social meaning of property, family life, and public policy, treating real estate and law as forces that shape how people live together. She writes for First Things and is a contributing editor at The American Conservative. Her beat sits where housing, fertility, and political conflict meet, with a focus on the difference between a house as an asset and a home as the center of family life, generational housing conflict, and the built environment’s role in community life. She also covers abortion law and policy, religion, and long-term social trends, linking legal changes and market behavior to the lived experience of ordinary people. She reports as a social critic, stressing stewardship, permanence, and the moral obligations that come with property, family formation, and institutional resilience.

Catherine Odom treats real estate as a crossroads of markets, policy, community conflict and long‑term urban change, using data and a policy‑aware lens to connect market shifts with development, wealth and housing access in South Florida. She covers real estate for the Miami Herald, drawing on experience on the paper’s government team and reporting work in Germany. Her core beat is Miami‑Dade and Florida real estate metrics, explaining how sales, rents, inventory, office dynamics and luxury growth shape the regional economy. She writes recurring roundups that catch readers up on traffic patterns, home sales and rent levels, and granular coverage of Miami‑Dade’s 34 distinct markets. A second strand of her work follows exclusive communities, waterfront luxury and event‑driven development, while another tracks housing affordability efforts, policy tools and nonprofit initiatives. She moves between data analysis, narrative features and short explanatory pieces, including work on artificial intelligence and labor.

Celia Young reports on how real estate deals, development decisions and retail strategy translate into everyday reality for residents and businesses, with affordability and consumer impact at the center of her beat. She is a business reporter at Newsday covering commercial real estate, retail and development, tracing how projects, leases and incentives reshape business districts and housing stock. She connects investment decisions, tax structures and policy to the future of local communities, treating financial tools and incentive packages as core to the affordability story. Her work follows projects from proposal through approvals, financing and openings, and she approaches commercial real estate as part of a wider economic system tied to employment, neighborhood change and consumer access. Previously she built a substantial body of renter-focused coverage on New York City residential real estate, including scams, deed fraud and tenant protections.

Chris Hoffman is an award-winning television reporter whose most distinctive work exposes real estate fraud, especially property deed theft and weaknesses in local land records. He reports for CBS News Pittsburgh’s KDKA, where he has worked since May 2019. His beat centers on how local policy, financial misconduct, and neighborhood-level decisions affect residents and business owners, with a focus on ownership risk, scams targeting homeowners, and policy responses to protect buyers and sellers. He also covers local business, wages, consumer issues, crime, public safety, and city operations that shape daily life. Hoffman reports through clear, concise explanations and on-the-ground interviews with real estate and title professionals, business owners, officials, police, and affected community members, tying technical systems and regulations to concrete consequences for families, workers, and storefronts.

Clio Chang distinguishes herself through deeply personal explorations of New York City’s housing landscape, blending practical real estate advice with cultural commentary on how people navigate complex living arrangements. She is a staff writer for Curbed, part of New York Magazine, where she examines the human dimensions of housing that generic market reports overlook. She writes the biweekly Apartment Department advice column, responding to tenant dilemmas involving landlords, noisy neighbors, and opaque co-op board decisions. Her work focuses on the financial realities of urban living, documenting income and rent pressures and the true costs of homeownership, including taxes, insurance, maintenance, and condo fees. She reports on neighborhood dynamics and conflicts, showing how housing tensions, stigmatized properties, and long-running disputes shape community relationships and individual wellbeing.

Corina Vanek stands out for a practical, map-based view of growth, tracing how real estate projects, redevelopment and corporate expansion reshape corridors and neighborhoods. She reports for The Arizona Republic with a development and real estate beat centered on large, high-impact projects, major reinvestment in commercial hubs and logistics and industrial facilities. Her coverage has included Axon’s $1.3 billion headquarters proposal, Vestar’s $100 million upgrades to Scottsdale Quarter, redevelopment at Park Central, innovation districts like Peoria’s core, long-term change in Gilbert and projects such as an Amazon delivery station in Surprise. She also closely follows adaptive reuse, from a former Camelback corridor sports bar becoming a law office to a nearly century-old church turning into an event venue and small-business space. Her stories pair specific deal details and zoning processes with clear explanations of public hearings, timelines and community impact.

Damian Bertrand is a service journalism reporter known for real estate coverage that shows how South Carolina laws, market trends and business practices affect everyday property owners. He writes clear, practical guidance grounded in data and statute, focusing on real estate rules, responsibilities and consumer protection. His work explains state law on issues like neighbor tree damage and the “We Buy Houses” industry, outlining liability, licensing changes and risks in plain terms. He also translates housing and economic data for local buyers, breaking down home value trends and affordability questions. Beyond property, his beat spans work, well-being and local culture, including life satisfaction research, AI and work, and community events. His reporting is concise, question-driven and rooted in recent data or state law, always centered on what is changing, why it matters locally, and what steps readers can take.

Dan Lampariello is an investigative reporter for WGME’s CBS 13 I-Team whose real estate beat is rooted in the daily lives of homeowners, tenants and small businesses. He covers how housing, property disputes and scams intersect with money and trust, from contractor conflicts, deed fraud and unclaimed state-held funds to major development projects and landmark apartment buildings. He treats real estate as a consumer beat, using investigative tools, clear explanations and vivid case studies to show where systems fail and how people can protect their homes and finances. His reporting extends to wider consumer scams involving vehicles and personal finances, community infrastructure, environmental change and high-stakes public safety, including co-authoring “Tragedy in Lewiston.” A multimedia journalist at WGME, he shoots, writes and edits his own stories and takes part in First Amendment and investigative reporting training.

Dana Sullivan Kilroy connects real estate, retail, technology, and consumer safety to show how corporate decisions, prices, and policy changes affect everyday Americans’ money choices. She is a longtime writer and editor for TheStreet with more than 25 years of experience covering travel, retail, technology, Las Vegas entertainment and more. Her work also appears in national consumer and lifestyle publications including The New York Times, Real Simple, and Self. Her real beat is how housing costs, shifting retail strategies, AI and markets, recalls, class action lawsuits, and policy shifts touch daily life. She reports with simple explanations, clear market and survey data, and direct service guidance, focusing on lived impact and practical steps readers can take.

David Brand covers housing and real estate with an equity lens, treating buildings and land as stories about tenant rights, public money and political power. He is a housing reporter for WNYC and Gothamist, focusing on housing and politics in and around New York City. On WNYC’s Economics & Equity team, his beat centers on how housing laws, boards and agencies shape daily life for renters, especially in regulated and rent-stabilized apartments. He explains decisions by the Rent Guidelines Board, investigates real estate fraud and deed theft schemes, and scrutinizes development deals and affordable housing commitments. He reports across audio, digital and social platforms, producing policy coverage, investigative pieces and practical service journalism for renters, with checklists, explainers and conversations that connect housing policy to economic and racial equity and everyday life inside actual apartments.

David Caraccio is a video-first real estate journalist who turns luxury and unusual California properties into concise, immersive visual stories. He is a video producer for The Sacramento Bee focusing on high-end residential real estate, especially luxury, historical, unique and celebrity homes. His coverage centers on distinctive properties and the lifestyle around them, with detailed tours, price information, design notes, materials and custom features. He frequently reports on large, visually striking homes, golf-course estates, riverfront properties, off-grid Tahoe compounds and tech-forward Bay Area houses, often tracking list and sale prices and record-chasing deals. He leads with video tours that invite audiences to see or take a look at a property, produces social and short-form clips across platforms, and occasionally tackles visually driven explainer pieces on topics such as snowpack, jet lag and local housing market events.

Dennis Rodkin is a senior reporter who makes residential real estate stories about more than prices, weaving market data, architectural history and social context into clear narratives about how people live and how cities change. He covers residential real estate for Crain's Chicago Business, a beat he has held there since 2014 with a focus on both everyday home price trends and high-end sales, including lakefront and estate properties and record-setting deals. He reports on affordability, discrimination and policy, tracking who is being priced out and how fair housing debates and “missing middle” legislation shape access. He brings a preservationist’s eye to notable historic buildings and rescued architectural elements, and is known as an architecture sleuth who traces the industrial and commercial past of sites now repurposed. He extends this work through regular broadcast and event appearances explaining local housing trends and disclosure rules.

Desiree Mathurin is a growth and development reporter known for telling unique and untold community stories in clear, local context. She covers growth and development for The Charlotte Observer, focusing on neighborhood change, new projects, and how local infrastructure and policy shape everyday life. She is an experienced multimedia journalist and narrative storyteller with a track record of sharing local news that is impactful and easy to understand for all readers. Before her current role, she covered neighborhood news in Denver for Denverite and Colorado Public Radio, reported on high school sports for Newsday, and covered southern regional news for the Associated Press. She reports by exploring communities on the ground and taking readers along as those places evolve.

Doug Weber stands out for his steady, transaction-focused real estate coverage built into a wider news file on local business and civic life. He is the founder and publisher of Westport Journal, where he reports on detailed property sales and transfers and turns public records into clear updates on the housing market. His recurring real estate columns track how many properties sell, over what period, for what dollar volume, and on which streets. He also covers business openings and commercial reuse of spaces, school policy and curriculum, community events, arts and seasonal notes, and local sports results. His articles stay close to the record, use data-driven roundups, and repeat consistent formats week after week, reflecting a hard-news focus shaped by sixteen years on the business side of The New York Times and The Economist.

Eli Segall uses real estate reporting to show how development, business deals and legal fights reshape Las Vegas, often tracing one transaction or probate case through to market trends and policy change. He is a real estate reporter for the Las Vegas Review-Journal on the business desk, focusing on commercial and residential property, land sales, hotel projects, apartments, mixed-use and industrial development. He reports the lifecycle of deals from listings to groundbreakings and ownership changes, with detail on prices, rents, amenities, tenants, timelines and regulation. His work on housing values and builder activity ties local projects to broader economic conditions and brokerage forecasts. He also covers downtown properties, culture and ownership shifts. Segall moderates real estate journalism panels, appears on local radio and podcasts, and has earned a gold prize from the National Association of Real Estate Editors.

Eric Peterson is a long-tenured Daily Herald reporter who treats real estate and redevelopment as narratives about place, people and civic change. He covers how land use, local government decisions and long-running projects reshape daily life in Schaumburg and the seven-village Barrington area, following assisted living centers, large redevelopments of former corporate campuses, farmland converted to housing, and affordable housing. He tracks zoning, tax incentives, data centers, board votes and public pushback in plain terms, grounding policy in specific sites, acreage and roadways. His beat also includes schools, libraries, scholarship programs and youth wellbeing, showing how community institutions share space with new development. He reports on public safety and police accountability, clarifying incidents and documenting consequences. He has been with the Daily Herald since March 2000, providing continuity across municipal boards, major projects and neighborhood change.

Erik Torkells is a founder-editor who uses real estate coverage to map Santa Barbara house by house, focusing on new listings, property makeovers, and neighborhood change. He now runs Siteline Santa Barbara, building a running log of notable homes and parcels on the market, with emphasis on architecture, price, and context in Montecito and nearby communities. His Just Listed work tracks individual properties as they come to market, centered on address, listing price, features, and micro-neighborhood fit. He also produces roundups of noteworthy new listings that work as short market scans and highlight how properties are built, transformed, or brought to market. Beyond listings, he covers land-use and public works, food, local news, arts, and service pieces, drawing on years as a magazine editor and past neighborhood-scale reporting on Tribeca.

Erin McCarthy is a consumer reporter at The Philadelphia Inquirer who follows the money that everyday people spend, with a focus on how retail and real estate spaces shape consumer life. She connects prices, shopping habits, and the changing built environment, treating commercial and residential properties as places where spending, convenience, and local identity meet. She reports on how Philadelphians spend across brick-and-mortar stores, e-commerce, and physical properties, using brands like Amazon, Walmart, QVC, and grocery chains to show how shoppers navigate choice, price, and access. Her work tracks office-space costs, mall redevelopments, grocery conversions, and record home sales, grounding stories in leases, court records, financial details, and on-the-ground reporting. She has worked her entire professional career at The Inquirer, previously covering the coronavirus pandemic, sports, and suburban news.

Esther Yoon-Ji Kang connects real estate to equity, access and community impact, treating housing as a lived condition rather than a market story. She reports on housing and community topics at WBEZ and writes real estate features at the Sun-Times. Her beat spans housing policy, regulation and enforcement, with close coverage of city actions on short-term rentals, lawsuits against platform companies and how ordinances and administrative changes shape renters, homeowners and small landlords. She follows measures from proposal through implementation and impact, explains them in plain terms and situates them in debates over rental markets and investor activity. She also covers neighborhood change, development, affordability, displacement and language access, using mixed-use projects, conversions and specific blocks or buildings to show how structural decisions in real estate, governance and services reorder daily life.

Gabriela Rico reports on how real estate, development and local business reshape the built environment, tying individual property deals to community priorities, historic character and economic trends. She is a reporter for the Arizona Daily Star covering real estate, development and local business, often through the lens of what projects mean for neighborhoods and the broader economy. Her core coverage follows significant property sales and redevelopment, focusing on what changes on the ground when a building trades hands. She writes detailed accounts of commercial deals, adaptive reuse projects and long‑search stories that turn routine transactions into narratives about stability and identity. She connects real estate to history and preservation, community businesses and affordability, and wider economic development, including job growth, major employers, construction activity, industry technology and housing for service members.

Gina Tomaine focuses on how people live in their homes, looking at the practical choices, trade-offs, and habits that shape everyday life in residential real estate. She contributes to The Philadelphia Inquirer on residential real estate, including Weekend coverage and the real estate newsletter, following buyers through their searches, compromises, and long-term planning for primary residences. She reports on families seeking more space, the emotional and practical criteria behind “the right” house, and how influencers and agents shape visibility and marketing in housing. She also writes about home organization, systems, and maintenance, turning organizer advice into clear routines and small workflows. Beyond real estate, she is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in Runner’s World, Men’s Health, Yoga Journal, and Philadelphia magazine, covering running, fitness, yoga, mindfulness, and everyday city life with a service-driven, straightforward voice.

Grace Bernard is a freelance writer and editorial strategist who covers real estate as lived design. She writes most often about modern homes, retreats, and distinctive residences where architecture, materials, and landscape shape daily life. She works regularly for Dwell and also writes for travel publications, including Condé Nast Traveler. Her reporting often focuses on concrete houses, lush facades, cabins, and getaway properties, with close attention to curves, courtyards, planting, light, privacy, and indoor-outdoor flow. She uses short, direct descriptions and combines single-property features with clear roundups.

Greg Rosalsky is an economics journalist at Planet Money whose distinct focus is using housing markets, policy experiments, and offbeat data stories to show how the design of the economy shapes everyday life. Since 2018 he has been a writer and reporter at Planet Money, writing the Planet Money newsletter and appearing as a host on the podcast. He covers housing programs, rent control, falling home prices, millennial wealth, inflation, financial markets, and AI and inequality, treating housing and other real-world markets as economic systems shaped by incentives, regulation, and long-term policy. He coined “skimpflation” and often reports on “shrinkflation,” interest rates, and wealth distribution. His work turns dense academic research, historical data, and economic theory into tightly structured, research-driven narratives in both prose and audio, with an emphasis on mechanisms, incentives, and long-run policy and inequality questions.

Hayden Davis is a service journalism reporter who uses clear numbers, local context and next steps to show how housing, development and everyday logistics shape life in Hilton Head and greater Beaufort County. He works at The Island Packet, turning real estate and infrastructure coverage into practical guides on where to live, what it costs and how projects will change local communities. He reports deeply on housing costs, affordability and new construction, and also tracks standout luxury listings and historically significant properties to show how land and buildings are valued and used. His work explains risks and infrastructure, from sinkholes to tropical weather and new flight routes, with specific actions for readers. He also documents community businesses, food and cultural recognition, using multimedia and on-site reporting to connect individual stories to daily life in the Lowcountry.

Heidi Groover treats real estate as a public-interest beat, using housing as a lens on inequality, community change, and the rules that govern who gets to live where. She is a real estate reporter at The Seattle Times, covering Washington’s housing market, rental costs, evictions, commercial development, land-use policy, and new housing models. Her core coverage tracks housing prices, sales, mortgage rates, and affordability, translating technical market trends and legal changes into plain terms. She reports on rent caps, tenant protections, and eviction rules with a service-oriented approach for people navigating the system. She also covers major projects, zoning decisions, and social housing experiments that test new affordability models. Beyond daily coverage, she is frequently invited to explain regional housing challenges in public forums, drawing on years of reporting on housing and local politics at a prior local outlet.

JC Reindl tracks how big-money development and real estate deals move from announcement to construction and what those moves mean for tenants, taxpayers and local business. He is a business reporter for the Detroit Free Press, on the staff since November 2012, covering general assignment business news including development and the business of health care. His beat spans metro Detroit development, real estate, auto insurance, the business of health care and broader business and general news. He focuses on major projects, public incentives and tax breaks, pairing project news with scrutiny of financing and accountability. He also reports on tenant displacement and court fights around troubled buildings, and on corporate reshuffling, private equity deals, mortgage industry changes and health care business stories. His reporting uses clear financial details and employment impacts to show how business decisions reshape the built environment and people’s lives.

Jack Flemming is a staff writer known for making complex housing issues clear to a general audience while earning national recognition for his real estate reporting. He covers real estate for the Los Angeles Times, focusing on how California’s housing market, policy decisions and local conditions shape life for owners and renters. His core coverage links housing policy, market forces and everyday Californians, using market data, legislation and neighborhood change to show who gains and who loses in a tight housing market. He has written widely read pieces on the pandemic-era market, investor activity, California’s historic housing bill and upzoning. He also reports on luxury homes and celebrity real estate, physical risks in desirable places to live and communities affected by disasters. His work often takes the form of data-driven explainers and newsletters with clear takeaways.

Jacques Kelly is a columnist at The Baltimore Sun who covers real estate through the lens of Baltimore’s neighborhoods, architecture and local history. He writes commentary that treats houses, blocks and skylines as a way to explain how the city changes over time and what those changes mean for the people who live there. His work sits between real estate, urban history and neighborhood reporting, with an emphasis on vacant houses, battered blocks and disinvestment. He follows families leaving old neighborhoods, tracks the fate of rowhouses, and ties changing housing prices to the character of specific streets and small commercial centers. He pulls in archival material such as midcentury real estate ads and blends it with present‑day reporting on preservation projects, civic figures and institutions. Across his columns, he reports at street level, using detailed observation to connect housing markets, skyline changes and local civic stories.

Jake Blumgart follows how Philadelphia’s office, housing, and retail properties change hands, change uses, and reshape the balance between private investment and public responsibility. He is a commercial real estate reporter covering new development and the city’s office stock, including post-pandemic vacancies, hybrid work, and projects like an 18‑story insurance tower. He also reports on housing, from Philadelphia Housing Authority expansions and sprinkler rules in older high-rises to adaptive reuse of landmarks like the Witherspoon Building and a nearly 140‑year‑old church. His coverage of Market East, historic designations, and long-standing commercial strips tracks neighborhood change and preservation fights. Across these stories, he reports through policy, finance, and regulation while grounding every piece in specific buildings, blocks, and communities.

Jake Indursky stands out for turning individual buildings, deals and tenants into clear reporting on how residential real estate works. He is a reporter at The Real Deal, covering the U.S. real estate industry across markets with an emphasis on New York-area housing, brokerages and emerging deal trends. His beat centers on pricing, rents, corporate deals, regulation and technology, and he often uses specific properties and transactions to show broader market pressure. He writes daily market coverage and magazine features, and also makes video explainers and audio conversations. His reporting ranges from city rent data and neighborhood condo markets to brokerage mergers, commission-advance companies, luxury properties, architecture and AI in home buying and selling.

Janet Eastman turns residential real estate coverage into stories about architecture, design and how people live, using listings and places to explain character, history and landscape rather than only prices and market trends. She produces daily design coverage for the home and garden section of The Oregonian/OregonLive and writes a regular wine column, so her real estate reporting is part of a broader stream of service journalism about homes, hospitality and regional experiences. She covers city houses, country retreats and unusual properties, midcentury tours, cabins, former state parks, islands sold at auction, inns with distinctive wine lists and human-interest pieces tied to place. She reports by starting with design or history, then moving to layout, price and practical advice, treating each property or setting as a guide to architecture, preservation, neighborhood identity and everyday life.

Jay Barmann is the editor in chief at SFist, where he leads daily coverage and writes high-volume posts across news, food, theater, cocktails, and housing. His real estate work is the most distinctive part of his reporting: he turns specific apartments, buildings, and price points into case studies for rents, affordability, scarcity, neighborhood change, and the strain of searching for housing. He also covers development, infrastructure, policy, and the way public narratives shape civic life. His style is direct and often wry, with plain description, concrete examples, and clear context. Across his work, he combines an editor’s sense of tone and strategy with a reporter’s habit of returning to the same structural pressures shaping the built environment.

Jennifer Gould is an award-winning journalist and author who uses luxury real estate to trace culture, power and global money flows. She is a columnist at the New York Post, where she writes the weekly Side Dish and Gimme Shelter columns on real estate, money laundering and global financial corruption. Her Gimme Shelter coverage focuses on high-end residential listings, especially properties tied to entertainment figures, historic owners and billionaire trends. She reports prices, square footage, design and location while foregrounding the status conferred by owners, neighbors and history. Her Side Dish column covers restaurants, hotels and cultural venues, showing how food, art and music are used to brand and market property. Professional profiles note that she also writes for outlets including Air Mail and Vanity Fair and has authored a book based on her time in Russia.

Jere Gish is a long-tenured local news anchor and reporter whose work centers on the consumer impact of government and economic policy on household finances and everyday life. He currently serves as a weeknight anchor and reporter, co-anchoring key newscasts and leading daily coverage that blends breaking developments with practical consumer guidance. He focuses on public programs, tax relief, rebates, refunds, and credits, explaining what eligible residents receive, how much money is at stake, and what steps people need to take to benefit. His reporting connects these policies to rent, utilities, housing costs, and broader cost-of-living pressures. He also covers housing, affordability, and local market conditions, and appears in community service segments that track tangible outcomes for families. He reports in simple, direct terms, keeping numbers small and concrete so viewers can quickly see the personal stakes.

Jesse Alejandro Cottrell focuses on how policy, law and bureaucracy collide with people’s homes, tracing the pressure points where housing rules, immigration enforcement and aging infrastructure become battles over stability and belonging. He is an enterprise reporter and podcast co-host at The San Francisco Standard. His real estate work follows individual housing disputes and vulnerable tenants to show wider structural problems, building stories around a central household and then widening out to experts, advocates and officials. He reports closely on eviction mechanics, code enforcement and landlord–tenant friction, and on immigration courts and enforcement systems that freeze people’s housing, work and family plans. His enterprise investigations sit at the intersection of law, housing and public safety, and he explains complex systems across print, podcast, video explainers and live segments.

John Donegan stands out for reporting on how real estate development shapes socioeconomic equity and major civic events, with a constant focus on community impact. He is a local government reporter covering real estate and policy, with current work centered on Long Beach. He covers affordable housing that serves vulnerable people, including a 67-unit complex for low-income seniors and homeless veterans, a new youth shelter expected to fill immediately, and an East Long Beach project that moved forward despite battle scars and lawsuits. He tracks Olympic-linked development, such as national houses and major sales and upgrades at The Pike. He analyzes commercial projects tied to city operations and logistics, and he reports closely on policy shifts, including rules for problem short-term rentals, a sales tax hike proposal to protect healthcare, and a ban on high-powered e-bikes on sidewalks.

Jonathan LaMantia is a business reporter focused on real estate who explains how Long Island’s housing market works in practice, connecting individual buyers and sellers to the structural forces that shape where and how people live. He covers residential real estate and related business issues tied to property ownership, development and affordability, with a recurring focus on why buying or keeping a home is so difficult. His work includes widely cited analysis of why homebuyers cannot catch a break in a market where prices and competition stay high, and reporting on homes in the most competitive communities selling above asking price. He reports on foreclosure fights, mortgage enforcement and consumer protections, financial ties between officials and developers, and tools and planning strategies used to target sites for affordable housing, using interviews, public records and market data to make complex legal, economic and policy issues clear.

Joni Hess closely follows how New Orleans neighborhoods change on the ground, especially in New Orleans East, where she documents the gap between commercial potential and the reality of vacant sites, slow-moving projects and strained infrastructure. She covers a real estate beat that centers residents, small property owners and the public agencies that shape redevelopment. Her reporting tracks what happens after big plans and incentives are announced, asking whether investment, policy and basic services reach long-neglected corridors. Hess explains how projects are financed and approved, who controls key decisions and what options property owners have within the current policy framework. She treats real estate as a community story, connecting costs, insurance, taxes and rents to families’ stability and neighborhood institutions, and also produces service pieces on hurricane preparedness and local systems that help residents navigate risks and city planning.

Joseph Pimentel follows the money and the footprint of major properties, tracking how big real estate deals and destination projects reshape business life in Orange County and Southern California. He is the real estate reporter and sports business editor at the Orange County Business Journal, and the point of contact for commercial and residential real estate coverage. He reports on development, large-scale corporate and government assets, redevelopment and adaptive reuse, and sports and entertainment-oriented real estate. His work includes detailed coverage of the Laguna Niguel Ziggurat sale, the Orion affordable housing project, OCVibe and The Picklr, and multi-deal roundups such as “REAL ESTATE DEALS – July.” He combines hard transaction numbers, site visits and business strategy to show how executives, investors and power brokers use major properties and districts to shape markets and communities.

Josh Green uses real estate reporting to explain how Atlanta’s built environment is changing, tying specific projects to long-running neighborhood change, gentrification, and the city’s evolving identity. He is editor of Urbanize Atlanta and has led its coverage since launch, focusing on commercial and residential development, rezonings, and large-scale neighborhood remakes across the metro area. He reports on mixed-use districts, multifamily towers, adaptive reuse, and infrastructure, with close attention to site context, scale, and impact on surrounding streets and housing. His work regularly situates projects within transportation and infrastructure decisions, including transit, corridors, and public investment. A longtime magazine and newspaper writer and an editorial contributor to Atlanta magazine, he also writes fiction and long-form pieces rooted in years of covering housing, development, urban renewal, and neighborhood history.

Julianne Cuba stands out for real estate reporting that ties individual property deals to what they mean for neighborhoods, housing, and institutions. She is a real estate reporter at Crain’s New York Business, where she covers the city’s commercial and residential property markets. Her work focuses on sales, redevelopment plans, and financial stress, including community properties, office distress, lender takeovers, valuation, vacancy, and future repositioning. She has reported on the sale of a shuttered Queens White Castle site for future housing, a Park Slope early childhood center building sold by an education-focused nonprofit, and a Madison Avenue office tower that returned to its lender. She also writes Gotham Gigs features on individual professionals. Her reporting is straightforward and numbers-driven, with sale prices, building details, ownership changes, and context on how deals may alter a block or corridor.

Katherine Kallergis is residential bureau chief and a senior reporter at The Real Deal, leading coverage of the power, money and risks shaping South Florida’s residential real estate market. She focuses on how luxury brokers, condo developers and investors do business, covering high-end brokerage teams, waterfront and ultra-luxury home sales, and the agents and firms that dominate those segments. Her work on elite teams like the Jills Zeder Group tracks deal history, internal structure and client strategies using interviews and transaction data. She is a prominent voice on condo market risks, underperforming projects, oversupply, litigation and policy. She reports trend stories and investigations grounded in public records, lawsuits and regulatory filings, and appears regularly on podcasts, panels and broadcast segments to explain market mechanics and hidden risks.

Kathleen O’Brien is the housing reporter for Bangor Daily News whose beat blends weekly Bangor property transaction roundups with homeowner profiles and practical guides. She focuses on the Bangor-area housing market and how property sales, owner decisions and home projects shape local real estate. Her work follows individual buyers through long searches, including first-time purchases and historic homes, to show how timelines, costs and changing conditions affect everyday people. She regularly ranks recent sales by price to give a clear snapshot of what sold and for how much in a defined week. She also produces service pieces that help homeowners plan projects and work with contractors. Her housing reporting builds on prior coverage of Bangor and Brewer city government, Bath-area communities and criminal justice, and she still contributes to broader breaking news.

Ken Prendergast stands out for scoop-driven, deeply sourced reporting on Greater Cleveland development, real estate, construction, transportation and property markets. He runs NEOtrans, where he covers the region’s development and real estate cycle, from downtown districts to neighborhood projects, and tracks what new deals, housing and infrastructure will mean for the future. His reporting follows land acquisitions, policy decisions, financing, approvals and groundbreakings, with a focus on specific developers, sites and projects. He writes in a straightforward, document- and source-led style and regularly uses unnamed sources, public filings and development documents. His work has broken news on major projects such as Sherwin-Williams headquarters and lakefront development, and he has written for Sun Newspapers, Ohio Passenger Rail News and Passenger Transport.

Kenneth R. Gosselin is a business reporter whose work stands out for treating real estate development as an economic and civic turning point, not just a construction story. He writes for the Hartford Courant, covering financial services alongside residential and commercial real estate. His core beat is how development and property markets are reshaping downtowns and business districts, with a focus on large-scale projects, commercial properties and their economic stakes. He follows multi-year investments like Teachers Village from early plans through opening, tracking costs, delays and promises of revitalisation. He reports on distressed office complexes, malls under pressure and home sale slowdowns, using sale prices, budgets and timelines to show market resets and broader economic strain or strength. His stories connect new apartments, office sales and retail to employment, financing, regulation and everyday change on specific streets and neighborhoods.

Kevin J Hardy is a senior editor at The Detroit News who oversees coverage across the masthead while writing feature stories on residential property and high-end homes. He focuses on distinctive listings and the stories behind them, blending market detail with lifestyle angles rather than straight transaction reporting. His real estate beat centers on showcase home profiles, including MI Dream Home features such as 283 E Lincoln Street in Birmingham, with emphasis on architecture, design choices, and the experience of living in the space. He highlights what makes properties stand out, from location and renovation to historical touches and amenities. Hardy favors clean, descriptive narratives anchored in specific property or neighborhood details, presenting accessible stories that balance context, character, and key facts for readers interested in notable and aspirational homes.

Kirk Pinho is a senior reporter at Crain’s Detroit Business whose distinct focus is document‑driven coverage of commercial real estate deals, bids and construction that competitors do not have. He covers commercial real estate sales and leases, construction projects and industry trends, tracking how property decisions reshape the city and its corporate landscape. His day‑to‑day reporting follows capital moving through office, retail and mixed‑use properties, emphasizing price, buyer, seller and strategy. He reports on major construction pipelines, delays and failures, and ties individual projects to infrastructure, safety and long‑term land use. He investigates bid politics and personalities using public records and extensive document review, and produces market trend pieces grounded in data and studies on risk, investment and land use. His work favors numbers and behind‑the‑scenes detail over anecdotes.

Konrad Putzier stands out for linking big economic forces to the buildings, workers, and communities they reshape. He is an economics reporter at The Wall Street Journal who writes about how markets, policy, and data affect housing, commercial property, employment, and everyday finances. He also covers trade, energy prices, inflation, interest rates, and artificial intelligence, and he travels around the country to report on people and places shaped by economic change. His work is data-driven and grounded in interviews, from labor-market datasets and alternative jobs indicators to call-center workers, military service members, developers, and people affected by real-estate risk. Earlier in his career, he covered commercial property, office towers, landlords, lenders, and major developments, including the rebuilding of the World Trade Center and the Surfside condominium disaster.

Lance Lambert is a data-first housing journalist who uses granular U.S. residential real estate metrics to show how local markets are shifting, bifurcating, and in some places correcting. He is co-founder and editor of ResiClub, a media and research company focused on in-depth tracking, reporting, and analysis of regional housing markets, and has published his housing coverage with Fast Company since 2023. A former real estate editor at Fortune, he reports on housing market cycles, price corrections, inventory, and affordability through detailed charts, metro-by-metro lists, and clear comparisons to past cycles. His work centers on cyclical turning points, homebuilder lot supply and new-build inventory, institutional homebuyers and single-family rentals, and ResiClub tools like ResiClub Terminal that make local data usable for housing decision-makers.

Latrice Williams is distinct for treating residential growth as a long-running community story, following major housing projects from concept to occupancy and centering the people who live in them. She is a general assignment reporter for Savannah Morning News focused on Bryan and Effingham County. Her beat includes real estate, land use, local government, zoning and infrastructure, with close coverage of master-planned communities like Heartwood and new subdivisions in small towns facing sudden growth. She reports from public meetings where officials weigh development and related studies, connects projects to traffic and public investment, and uses community channels to seek input from homeowners dealing with builders or property managers. Her work documents how housing expansion, amenities and growth decisions reshape daily life for residents and how fast-growing areas manage capacity, character and demand for housing.

Lauren Elkies Schram is a New York Post reporter whose distinct lane is how property, money and policy shape everyday life. She covers real estate, consumer packaged goods, crime and politics, and her reporting moves from housing regulation and renter demand to luxury homes, campus protests and cultural flashpoints. She writes with a mix of vivid human detail and hard numbers, using legislation, deal data and market analysis to show who pays, who benefits and how the rules change. Her recent work has included rent boards, tax surcharges, off-market listings, longevity amenities for the ultra-wealthy, and listings tied to unusual histories or well-known names. Before and alongside the Post, she reported on commercial real estate deals and industry moves, with work appearing in trade and business-facing publications.

Laurence Darmiento’s most distinctive work traces how insurance markets and wildfire fallout shape whether California homeowners can rebuild, relocate or stay put, treating coverage as a central piece of the real estate landscape. He is a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, covering finance, insurance, aerospace and Southern California dealmakers after joining the paper in 2015 as an assistant business editor following his leadership of a regional business journal. His beat centers on California’s economy, with a focus on home insurance markets, wildfire claims, ballot measures affecting Proposition 103, foreign investment, trade flows and major real estate scandals. He reports with a data-heavy, regulation-focused approach, anchoring complex stories in hard numbers, corporate behavior and policy decisions, and translating them into clear narratives about consequences for businesses and ordinary people.

Lesley Collins centers her real estate reporting on awards programs, leadership profiles and practical guidance for agents and brokers, rather than day-to-day market news. She manages HousingWire’s awards and recognition content, including flagship features like “Introducing the 2026 Women of Influence” in the Awards vertical. Her work highlights how real estate and mortgage leaders use AI, customer experience and curiosity to drive change, and turns those themes into checklists and advice for practitioners. She profiles executives across mortgage, real estate software and services, focusing on leadership, innovation, culture and customer value. She also writes service pieces such as “Before you paste AI copy into the MLS, run this checklist,” offering structured, opinion-driven guidance that connects emerging technology to everyday listing, marketing and sales practice.

Lexi Cortes treats real estate as a public service and civil rights issue, not a business beat, investigating how housing, local infrastructure and local power affect everyday life in the Metro East suburbs of St. Louis. She is an investigative reporter at the Belleville News-Democrat, where she has worked since 2014 and won multiple state awards for investigative and community service reporting. Her beat centers on harmful housing conditions, unsafe rentals, deteriorating properties, mobile home communities, corporate landlords, crime-free housing ordinances and local government accountability. She reports through on-the-ground interviews, narrative detail, public records and data, with projects like “Hazardous Homes” documenting neglected properties, failing infrastructure and sewage problems as shared community crises. She invites detailed, well-documented tips about systemic harm and focuses on abuses of power, government failures and rules that shape residents’ homes, streets and neighborhoods.

Li Khan uses real estate and growth reporting to show how Hilton Head Island is changing for the people who live and work there. She covers growth, development, tourism and real estate for The Island Packet. Her core beat is the island’s housing pipeline and property market, from workforce housing to luxury listings, along with policies that shape land use and short-term rentals. She tracks new projects, market shifts, town meetings and legal disputes with data, detailed meeting coverage and clear explainers. She often adds historical and cultural context, including stories on past hurricanes, Revolutionary War clashes and local arts and reading culture. Her work also covers infrastructure and tourism, using visual formats like video walkthroughs to make complex projects easy to understand. She previously served as editor in chief of The Peralta Citizen, a watchdog student-led news outlet.

Her reporting follows the money and the conflicts in South Florida real estate, with a focus on lawsuits, fraud and governance breakdowns around property deals and homeowner associations. Lidia Dinkova covers real estate for The Real Deal, concentrating on developers, investors and community boards and how their decisions play out in courtrooms and condo towers. She reports on contested deals and legal fights over valuations, contract terms and alleged misrepresentations, tracking how high-value transactions turn into detailed complaints and disputes over pricing, risk and control. She documents fraud schemes, regulatory enforcement and misconduct inside condo and homeowner associations, examining gaps in state law and governance. She also covers development plans, investment strategies and market cycles, and has a decade of experience on South Florida real estate and related legal affairs, with a consistent emphasis on documents, deals and governance.

Lynn Peisner focuses on how capital, policy and operations intersect in multifamily and affordable housing, with detailed reporting at the individual property level. She is editor of Multifamily & Affordable Housing Business, where she writes and shapes coverage that connects deal flow and development activity with broader investment trends. Her beat centers on multifamily transactions, groundbreakings, refinancings and new developments, tracking property specs, pricing, amenities, unit counts, layouts and rent ranges. She frequently covers affordable, income-restricted and supportive housing, documenting eligibility bands, supportive services, design choices and acquisition-rehabilitation projects for vulnerable populations. She also reports on market fundamentals and agency lending, using absorption, delivery data and government-sponsored enterprise activity to explain the multifamily cycle and capital supply for owners, investors, lenders and operators.

Marco Santarelli writes data-driven real estate analysis grounded in an active investor’s lens. He is the founder of Norada Real Estate Investments, described as a nationwide provider of turnkey cash-flow rental properties, and his author bio presents him as an investor, author, and Inc. 5000 entrepreneur. He currently covers mortgage rates, housing affordability, and long-term investment returns, combining daily tracking of 30-year and 15-year purchase and refinance products with forward-looking outlook pieces on where rates and housing markets may head. He breaks down affordability with quantitative tables and plain sub-heads, turning numbers into clear narratives for homebuyers and investors. His work across articles, investing guides, and the Passive Real Estate Investing podcast keeps a practical, education-first tone focused on cash flow, appreciation, portfolio construction, leverage, and passive income strategies.

Marco Santarelli stands out as an investor, author, and founder of Norada Real Estate Investments, where he writes about income-producing property, turnkey cash-flow rentals, and passive real estate strategies. He also hosts the Passive Real Estate Investing show. His beat is practical rental-property investing for individual buyers, with a focus on cash flow, risk, portfolio building, and long-term wealth. He covers where to invest, how to choose properties and markets, and how to evaluate deal quality, financing, property management, and provider selection. His reporting is straightforward, comparative, and explanatory, with step-by-step guidance that reads more like an investor’s playbook than market commentary. He emphasizes stability, resilience, and disciplined decision-making over speculation or lifestyle real estate.

Marco Santarelli writes about real estate as an active investor, firm founder, and Inc. 5000 entrepreneur, turning housing market shifts and mortgage costs into step-by-step playbooks for buyers and investors. He leads Norada Real Estate Investments, a nationwide provider of turnkey cash-flow rental properties, and has also been associated with Norada Capital Management. His core beat is mortgage rates, housing markets, and real estate investment strategy, with daily rate updates, multi-year scenarios, and recession playbooks focused on affordability, leverage, cash flow, risk, and portfolio construction. He reports in an instructional, data-driven way, using calculators, tables, state-by-state breakdowns, and plain language to translate numbers into actions. He also curates educational resources and hosts the “Passive Real Estate Investing” podcast, while facing federal charges and SEC enforcement over an alleged Ponzi-style investment scheme.

Matt Elias turns city systems into housing stories. At the New York Post, he covers how money, politics, and infrastructure collide in housing, with a focus on local crises and public policy that shape where and how people live. His reporting often follows homelessness, transportation, airport access, rideshare delays, neighborhood conditions, and the effect of taxes, regulations, and incentives on the entertainment industry and real estate values. He writes reported features built from on-the-ground scenes, resident complaints, voter voices, and official explanations, using specific places and everyday frustrations to show how pipes, roads, terminals, and public services affect commutes, neighborhood desirability, property perceptions, and the mood of the electorate.

Matthew Glowicki treats real estate as a civic issue, not just a business beat, connecting individual projects and deals to questions of growth, incentives and the future of the housing stock. He is the growth and development reporter for The Courier Journal, a role he has held since 2022 after joining the newsroom in 2014. He covers real estate, housing and redevelopment, tracking major mixed-use proposals, office-to-residential conversions, historic building rehabs and new communities. His reporting explains zoning decisions, public incentives, legal disputes and market conditions in clear, service-oriented stories, from average home price explainers to amenity-focused looks at seven-figure properties. A background on major trials, breaking news, the pandemic and the Reader’s Watchdog column shapes his focus on process, policy, accountability and practical impact on residents.

Matthew Sedacca is distinct for treating individual apartment buildings as full characters, writing “biographies of buildings” that show how specific addresses operate as small worlds within the city. He is a reporter and writer for the New York Magazine family, focusing on Curbed’s urban and real estate coverage with an emphasis on New York City’s housing stock, towers, and co-ops. His beat centers on residential real estate and architecture as lived-in space, tracking who is buying and selling high-profile apartments and what these moves reveal about taste, money, privacy, and status. He builds stories around one building at a time, layering in history, design details, resident anecdotes, and everyday routines to connect floor plans and finishes to the choices and habits of the people who inhabit them, across towers, storied co-ops, and creative spaces.

Matthew Sedacca uses individual apartments, towers, and creative studios to show how money, taste, and culture shape life in New York City. He is a writer for Curbed, where he covers New York City real estate, urban life, and how people inhabit the built environment. His real-estate reporting centers on who is buying and what their choices reveal about the city’s shifting landscape, tracking notable purchases and the buildings they favor. He does close-up reporting on specific apartments and residential buildings, linking layout, architecture, ownership, and building history to the lives imagined inside them. He also writes about homes and studios as creative environments, treating interiors as expressions of identity. Earlier pieces in his archive examine wages, wealth, and urban work, anchoring stories about cooks, billionaires, and artists in concrete numbers, specific addresses, and the textures of lived experience.

Mike Platania distinguishes himself by making complex commercial real estate deals and adaptive reuse projects clear at the property level, showing how individual transactions reshape business districts. He is a business reporter for Richmond BizSense, where he covers commercial real estate and development, tracking specific properties, tenants and developers as they move sites into mixed-use and redevelopment plays. His beat centers on adaptive reuse, mixed-use projects and expansions around major anchors, and he returns to key sites over multiple phases to show how each step changes the commercial landscape. He foregrounds developers, investors and deal structure, tying sale prices, zoning changes and timing to business impact. In both print and online stories and a recurring audio news segment, he reports in a direct, fact-driven style that leans on concrete figures, named firms and clear explanations of corridor and neighborhood change.

Mike Romano covers how broad economic, political and cultural forces shape the real estate industry, using a sports and mega-events lens, technology and AI, and high-end migration to show how property markets work. He is a multimedia content writer at The Real Deal, producing national text and multimedia packages that look past individual deals to the systems driving them. He reports on housing policy and large-scale initiatives, fraud and Ponzi schemes, distressed empires and criminal trials, and how tournaments and championships affect commercial real estate. His work also examines AI’s impact on real estate, antitrust questions around brokerage models, and the movement of tech wealth into ultra-luxury markets. He favors thematic features and news roundups with clear, direct language that explain the real estate business as a set of interconnected forces rather than isolated transactions.

Miranda Ceja covers how real estate, local development and civic decisions intersect in coastal and south Orange County communities, with a focus on big-ticket home sales and the policies and projects that shape housing supply. She reports on headline luxury deals and quieter planning moves, tracking redevelopment proposals, affordable housing debates and city council activity that change how and where people live. She regularly reports on notable listings and record-setting residential sales, highlighting prices, property histories and how they fit into wider Orange County trends. Her work explains unit counts, building scale, public review stages and candidate positions on housing legislation, tying political stances and project plans to specific communities and parcels. She also covers civic stories around public space, community safety, local artists, Pride flag disputes and neighborhood events to show how the built environment and community identity evolve together.

Namu Sampath is an enterprise reporter for The Springfield Republican and MassLive whose work centers on how housing policy translates into real security for residents. She covers housing, real estate and other issues affecting people in western Massachusetts, focusing on laws, protections and investments rather than market statistics. Her stories explain complex tools such as homestead declarations, tenant protections and eviction record sealing, breaking down who is covered, what forms or filings are required and how residents can use new programs. She reports both enterprise and daily pieces, combining statutory detail, expert analysis, and on-the-ground interviews with advocates, public officials and residents. Her coverage of affordability, development, public funding and health care systems follows policy and money from legislative decisions to real-world impact, showing how local institutions shape everyday stability.

Natalie Hoberman covers high-end residential real estate and architecture for Forbes, treating architecture and design as the main lens rather than an afterthought. She is a contributor to Forbes Global Properties and previously worked as an editor for the West Coast arm of The Real Deal. She writes immersive tours of major estates and landmark homes, using single listings to show how architecture, landscape, and amenities work together at the top of the market. Her coverage ranges from Beverly Hills mansions and California country estates to Art Nouveau villas and tropical modernist properties. She also reports on global buyer destinations and relocation, including emerging coastal markets and cross-border moves. Her background in real estate reporting and editorial leadership underpins a measured, analytic tone that ties individual properties and regions to broader market and development narratives.

Nick Manes is a reporter at Crain’s Detroit Business who covers residential real estate and local mortgage companies, and he also reports on the Detroit mayoral race. He focuses on how housing finance, affordability, neighborhood investment, and policy choices shape the business landscape. His work tracks Metro Detroit’s for-sale market, land contracts, mortgage access, and the communities drawing new interest. He writes about which suburbs are gaining value, where listings are tightest, and how buyer competition is changing local markets. He also examines why some buyers still rely on less-regulated financing, and what that says about gaps in traditional lending. His reporting is grounded in data, location detail, and on-the-ground market trends, not generic commentary.

Paul Jablow is a longtime journalist known for narrative profiles of individual homes and the ways people live in them. He writes about residential real estate and home life for The Philadelphia Inquirer, with core work in the House of the week franchise that turns listings into detailed portraits of specific properties. His beat spans city neighborhoods and suburbs, compact urban homes and larger historic houses, with close attention to architectural style, bedroom counts, and asking prices. He anchors each story in concrete facts while highlighting design, history, and everyday use, and also covers home design, maintenance, and practical repair issues. Jablow’s real estate reporting is shaped by more than three decades as a reporter and editor, as well as past book reviews and essays, giving his property pieces a clear structure, disciplined voice, and focus on lived experience rather than investment angles.

Paul Nutcher is an award-winning reporter at The Ledger, part of the USA TODAY NETWORK. He covers real estate where business, government, and the courts meet. His beat focuses on housing, development, and property issues, with a clear eye on how growth decisions and financial structures affect everyday residents. He reports on homeowners facing mortgage disputes and the possible loss of their homes, along with large residential proposals such as the 2,245-home Emilie project before the Bartow Commission. His broader coverage also includes business, education, government, courts, and electoral contests. He writes clear news reports that center a specific decision or conflict, then explain who is affected and what is at stake.

Rachel Corbett covers the human and financial stakes of the housing market, showing how design, ownership, and policy decisions shape the way people live. She is a features writer for New York Magazine’s real estate vertical, where she follows disputes in and around homes to reveal how abstract legal and financial rules play out in everyday life. Her Curbed reporting, including “Do They Look Bad to You?”, uses dialogue, scene, and detailed narrative to make property conflicts readable as human dramas. Her beat includes ownership, money, and the legal structures around homes, from tax havens and inheritance mechanisms to contracts and trusts. She works in long-form, building multi-actor narratives from records, interviews, and history, and brings a cross-beat perspective from art-world investigations and work on criminal profiling and the FBI behavioral science unit.

Rachel Herzog covers commercial real estate with a close eye on how major property decisions affect neighborhoods, tenants and investors. She reports for Crain’s Chicago Business, digging into affordable housing deals, downtown office towers and retail redevelopment. Her beat centers on who owns key assets, how transactions are structured and what they mean for rent stability, community needs and investor returns. She explains the economics of subsidized and mission-driven housing, breaks down portfolios, financing and subsidy frameworks, and follows how ownership changes intersect with policy tools and local housing goals. Herzog treats marquee office buildings and shopping centers as case studies, mapping lender relationships, debt loads, partnership structures, renovation plans and leasing strategies, and ties those details to vacancy trends, downtown recovery and changing retail and office demand.

Randy Tucker treats real estate and infrastructure stories as civic stories, tracing how development, public finance and policy decisions shape daily life. He covers real estate and business for The Cincinnati Enquirer, focusing on major projects where public agencies and private developers intersect, including the Kenwood site and the Banks riverfront development. He explains how projects are funded, who is responsible and what risks and timelines are involved. His beat includes infrastructure and transportation, zoning, housing policy and neighborhood change, with award-winning work on transportation issues and on redlining and its legacy. He links code changes, nonprofit efforts, investment decisions and corporate history to questions of density, affordability, business survival and consumer impact. Earlier in his career he co-wrote general news and courts coverage, and across beats he uses public records, expert voices and historical context in plain, fact-focused reporting.

Randy Tucker brings a veteran business desk sensibility to real estate, pairing market analysis with immersive stories like living at a mall under redevelopment or walking readers through a luxury estate. He covers commercial and residential real estate for The Cincinnati Enquirer, focusing on housing markets, home prices, property values, assessments and investors, and how these forces shape everyday life. He reports on the hottest housing markets, tax spikes from new valuations, and the shift from ownership to renting, using sales data, rankings and expert sources to explain buyer behavior and affordability. Alongside housing, he covers commercial properties, redevelopment of older sites, retail space and landmark locations, including features on national retail brands and their role in shopping culture. A longtime business writer and former assistant business editor, his work has been honored in real estate and business reporting contests.

Rebecca Liebson treats real estate as a way to show how Tampa Bay is changing at street level, following new buildings, landlords and luxury listings through the lives of the people around them. She is a real estate reporter at the Tampa Bay Times, covering one of the hottest industries in the region and how the market reshapes daily life for renters, homeowners and neighborhoods. Her work uses immersive reporting and vivid case studies so readers can see the market in commutes, homes and the feel of a block. She walks Central Avenue end to end to test how walkable St. Petersburg is, and uses specific structures like a massive garage to explain development and neighborhood character. She reports renter horror stories and bad landlords, luxury and historic properties, transit and community programs, always focusing on clear explanation, place-based detail and the voices of people living with the consequences.

Rich Bockmann focuses on the power, conflict and personalities behind commercial real estate, using longform reporting to show how major owners, investors and officials shape the office market and investment landscape. He is a senior reporter and commercial bureau chief at The Real Deal, coordinating its commercial coverage, contributing a regular column and writing prominent narrative and investigative pieces. His beat centers on the Manhattan office market, high-profile towers, top-tier leases and public budgets where real estate interests collide. He often uses family feuds, executive profiles and investor controversies to explain control, succession, ethics and strategy inside major landlord portfolios. Beyond print and digital articles, he appears in multimedia explainers, breaking down office market trends and major real estate stories with clear analytical framing and a storytelling style that blends precise reporting with carefully chosen language.

Roger Vincent stands out for tracing how big money, design, and regulation reshape commercial property. He covers commercial real estate for the Business section of the Los Angeles Times and was the paper’s first real estate columnist. His beat centers on major projects, deals, market forces, housing supply, project finance, and local rules. He reports on apartment towers, office vacancies, mixed-use developments, hotels, retail, and the influence of global capital. He explains complex development plans and financing structures in clear, plain stories, using individual buildings and industry figures to show how the market works and why projects move forward, stall, or fail.

Rose White links individual properties to the larger economic, policy and community forces shaping housing and land use. She covers real estate and statewide development for MLive, with a real beat that spans luxury listings, institutional land deals, detention facilities, industrial sites, public benefit programs and environmental risk. Her real estate work highlights distinctive Michigan homes, focusing on architecture, amenities, renovation and how properties fit into their surroundings and local markets, with descriptive reporting grounded in the experience of living there. She extends this lens to large facilities and tracts of land, documenting everyday impacts such as noise, overcrowding and health concerns, and how state and federal actors respond. She reports across formats, using video and social platforms to add sensory detail and connect property-level stories to broader economic systems and public policy.

Russell Lissau is a veteran reporter and senior writer for the Daily Herald, and he turns real estate into a story about public decisions, policy and how projects change local communities. He covers redevelopment, zoning fights, tax incentives and housing legislation, with a focus on downtown change, townhouse projects, and the political and financial choices behind them. His reporting explains the physical change on the block, the deal structure behind it and the debates at city hall. He is formally assigned to politics, education and other areas of interest, and his archive also includes election coverage, criminal justice, business stories and property transfers.

Shaina Mishkin connects data-heavy housing trends to clear, practical implications for households and investors, treating affordability, financing, and industry strategy as one story about how people find and finance homes in a challenging market. She is a reporter at Barron's covering the U.S. residential real estate market and housing affordability, with a focus on home sales, prices, inventory, and wage growth versus housing costs. She reports on mortgage rates, refinancing decisions, loan programs, and new financial technologies in homebuying, and covers real estate companies, homebuilders, and housing-linked stocks, examining how corporate strategy reflects market conditions. Her work includes coverage of structural supply and demand issues, adaptive reuse like office-to-housing conversions, and emerging markets. Previously, she led housing coverage at a personal finance magazine and has written real estate explainers for other consumer outlets.

Snejana Farberov turns housing data, policy shifts, and demographic research into clear stories about affordability, access to homeownership, and where buyers and renters stand in the market. She reports for Realtor.com on U.S. housing trends and domestic real estate, drawing on 16 years of New York City journalism experience at outlets including the New York Post and the Daily Mail. Her core work tracks prices, inventory, and days on market, using Realtor.com’s analytics, surveys, and historical context to show how national trends play out in specific cities, price points, and buyer groups. She covers demographic shifts in homeownership, emerging buyer segments, renter sentiment, and the impact of federal and local housing policy. Her reporting also examines AI-powered staging, consumer trust, and how market behavior and lived experience intersect with the structure of the housing market.

Stewart Yerton is a senior reporter for Honolulu Civil Beat who treats business, real estate and the economy as public-interest beats shaped by law, policy and power. He covers how real estate, regulation and major industries affect everyday life, with housing, condos and commercial property as recurring lenses on consumer risk, legal exposure and the cost of living. His work on tourism examines visitor growth, destination management proposals and “regenerative” and “mindful” travel models, tracking how branding, governance and funding choices land on communities. He also reports on energy, utilities and health care, translating complex reports, campaign debates and insurer proposals into concrete household and business impacts. A licensed attorney and former government performance auditor, he focuses on how rules, systems and accountability inside agencies and corporations shape economic change, and he brings more than a decade of prior business-reporting experience to that work.

Susan Campbell turns housing market data and consumer issues into clear takeaways for buyers, sellers, and renters. She is a consumer reporter at Arizona’s Family, where she covers home prices, sales activity, inventory, mortgage costs, affordability, and scams tied to homeownership and travel. Her reporting tracks Metro Phoenix and statewide housing trends month by month, with charts, hard numbers, and forecasts. She also covers fake visa lottery scams, suspected timeshare schemes, holiday travel tips, and money-saving consumer advice. Campbell joined Arizona’s Family in 2020 after reporting for television stations in Texas and worked before that as a small-market general assignment reporter and a consumer advocate at a CBS affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island.

Sydney Hargrove is a junior staff writer at Secret NYC who covers real estate through how people experience buildings, neighborhoods, and escapes. She focuses on housing lotteries, landmark conversions, and urban spaces as lived environments, pairing clear pricing and eligibility details with visual and historical context. Her Flatiron Building coverage tracks its office-to-condo conversion, inventory, and multimillion-dollar listings on a specific timeline. She also writes guides to nearby towns, parks, and attractions, tying real estate, transit, and leisure into usable day trips. In New York, she produces street-level city guides and culture roundups that foreground addresses, schedules, and access. With more than seven years of experience and bylines beyond Secret NYC, including decor and student-life service pieces for Dorm Therapy, she keeps a practical, enthusiastic, and place-based voice across platforms.

TaMaryn Waters treats real estate as an economic and development beat, reporting on how land deals, housing trends and government decisions shape local business and the built environment. She is a business and economic development reporter for the Tallahassee Democrat, covering the commercial real estate market, downtown land sales, hotel and apartment proposals, office demand and retail patterns through a business lens. She links market growth and hesitation to wider economic forces, and tracks student housing tied to institutional moves. Her work also follows housing prices, inventory and buyer demand via specific listings and waterfront properties, and profiles notable estates and farms as part of broader land use. She closely reports on hearings, commission votes and legal disputes over public land, grounding stories in documents, meetings and face-to-face interviews, and produces digital-first coverage, including podcasts and social media updates.

Taylor Herzlich is a New York Post reporter who links real estate, the housing economy and everyday affordability, tracking how policy, markets and costs collide for landlords and homeowners. She covers rent controls, tax proposals, interest-rate shifts and institutional investor bans in housing, focusing on how rules and politics move property values and investor behavior. Herzlich reports on mortgage rates, foreclosure trends and child-raising costs, breaking down data on housing, day care, fuel and family budgets. She writes on energy prices, suspicious oil trades, foreign direct investment and global capital flows that shape the backdrop for business and property. She also covers AI and the media industry, probing accuracy, bias and editorial accountability in automated news, new AI information platforms and how television news handles political conflict and extremism.

Telis Demos is a banking and money columnist who stands out by following the chain from funding costs, regulation and investor demand in financial markets through to concrete outcomes like mortgage rates, housing affordability and commercial property risk. He writes for Heard on the Street at The Wall Street Journal and co-hosts the weekly markets and finance podcast Take on the Week. His beat sits at the junction of banks, capital markets and real estate, covering mortgage costs, benchmark shifts such as the move away from Libor, and commercial real estate exposures on bank balance sheets. He reports with a data-driven, credit and balance-sheet focus, tying bond markets, rate benchmarks and regulatory filings to what they mean for investors, banks, homeowners and property borrowers.

Thomas Gnau treats real estate as part of larger business, defense and institutional stories, focusing on how big property deals and facility decisions reshape employers and the regional economy. He is a business reporter for the Dayton Daily News and related Cox outlets, working on a beat that combines commercial real estate, corporate expansion, military contracts and veterans-focused projects. He reports on major warehouse, distribution and office sales, corporate holdings and retail technology assets, tracing who owns and controls key properties and what those portfolios mean for local business structure. He ties sites to job creation, payroll and incentive packages, and explains how military bases, VA facilities and defense legislation translate into concrete space and long-term commitments. His daily coverage uses plain, direct prose built around hard numbers, ownership structures and the roles of large companies and government agencies.

Tiffany Salameh is News4JAX’s consumer investigative reporter and an I-TEAM member. She stands out for treating housing as a consumer rights issue, using real estate stories to explain how housing costs, property taxes and debt shape everyday life. Her work focuses on the financial mechanics of buying, owning and keeping a home, with data-driven investigations and practical guidance for residents. Since joining News4JAX in 2023, she has covered affordability, homestead exemption savings, short-term rentals, neighborhood change, and the effects of financing, development and public funding on homeowners and renters. Her reporting often pairs individual case studies with county data, policy details and clear how-to advice, turning complex rules into plain guidance for viewers.

Tim Grant focuses on the financial side of housing, showing how real estate decisions connect to personal finance, retirement planning and consumer risk. He writes for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where he covers the regional housing market, the business of real estate services, and how brokerages expand, merge and compete. His work tracks prices, demand and inventory with data-driven stories that explain how interest rates, supply constraints and corporate moves affect buyers and sellers. He also reports on mortgage strategy within broader financial plans, including whether to pay off a mortgage early or invest, and how those choices shape retirement security. Beyond housing, he covers retirement withdrawals, Social Security timing, education finance, youth attitudes on college costs, and local environmental and public health events that carry everyday economic risk.

Tristan Navera stands out for treating housing as a policy problem first. He is a senior housing policy reporter at Realtor.com, where he covers trends and solutions in the housing market, with a focus on national, regional and local housing policy news and major residential real estate trends. He previously was a senior reporter at Bloomberg Law and earlier covered real estate for the Washington Business Journal. He also spent a decade reporting on business and real estate in Dayton and Columbus, Ohio. His reporting uses data, research and case studies to explain housing supply, permits, construction, financing, regulation and affordability, and he often shows how local developments connect to broader market pressures.

Tyler Quattrin is a Pioneer Press reporter who links real estate and housing news to longer stories about land use, public memory and community values. He covers real estate development, housing initiatives and the community figures and institutions tied to changing urban space. His work on the Highland Bridge redevelopment uses tenant leases and retail build-out updates to track the pace and direction of a contentious master plan. He reports on public agencies acquiring and repositioning parcels such as the former Saxon Ford site, focusing on council actions and corridor planning. He covers housing initiatives like Twin Cities Habitat’s faith-inspired efforts rooted in Catholic social teaching. He also writes community profiles, from “Sister Roz,” the “Massaging Nun” who helped legitimize massage therapy, to a monument honoring barrier-breaking resident William Godette and the local artist who created it.

Valentina Palm is a reporter for The Palm Beach Post who covers Wellington, Royal Palm Beach and other western communities in Palm Beach County, treating growth, real estate development, housing costs and immigration policy as deeply local stories about land, public space and neighborhood identity. She reports on waterfront luxury condo projects, downtown riverfront redevelopment and high-end, high-impact real estate, tying major deals to changes in character and public access. Her beat extends to housing pressures on working families and Hispanic communities, the local effects of immigration enforcement and the path to citizenship, as well as civic and faith institutions such as churches, dioceses and local governments. Across these subjects she uses a community-first lens, grounding her stories in the people and organizations that live with the consequences of development and policy decisions.

Zachary Kussin is an award-winning real estate editor whose reporting bridges high-stakes luxury deals with clear, practical housing insight and human stories. He is real estate editor at the New York Post, where his decade of experience and industry relationships give him consistent access to major transactions and REBNY events. He covers ultra-high-end sales, including multi-million dollar Manhattan townhouses and celebrity-linked properties, tracking how ambitious listings return at reduced prices. His beat also includes affordability challenges in competitive markets and the real costs of renter and homeowner insurance. He reports on emerging trends such as a proposed space hotel and pandemic-era shifts like Netflix viewing parties affecting housing behavior. His work includes personal narrative, notably a first-person account of losing his home in a fire, and has been recognized with a 2018 New York State Associated Press Association award.