Real Estate Journalistsin the USA

Aaron Elstein brings a Wall Street reporter’s eye to commercial real estate. He is a senior reporter at Crain’s New York Business, where he covers large office towers, Midtown corridors, landlords, lenders, investors and regulators. His reporting shows how ownership decisions, bank balance sheets, capital markets and regulation shape property values and risk. He also covers banking, finance and Wall Street, including bank mergers and investment firms. Before joining Crain’s in 2003, he wrote Heard on the Street columns for The Wall Street Journal and covered bank mergers for American Banker. Elstein reports by closely reading footnotes, contracts, regulatory filings and legal documents. His investigative work has examined executive payments, pension funds, tax enforcement and tenant harassment. His coverage places deals, disputes and enforcement actions within broader financial and property cycles.

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.

Aarthi Swaminathan is a personal finance reporter at MarketWatch whose distinctive beat connects residential real estate with household budgets. She covers housing prices, affordability, mortgage rates, financing, insurance, remodeling and the costs of owning a home. Her reporting examines overvalued and fast-rising markets, ZIP-code trends, second-home sellers, builders, developers and buyers facing higher borrowing costs. She also follows Gen Z buyers, owners trapped in weakening condo markets and neighborhood conflicts over development. Her work pairs data-driven housing analysis with detailed case studies of buyers, owners and sellers. She explains complex market data in clear, accessible language and writes news features, personal-finance explainers, Economic Report stories, The Big Move and New American Playbook. She won a silver award for Best Collection of Work by an Individual Covering Residential Real Estate.

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.

Abby Miller reports on how development, housing policy and major projects reshape neighborhoods, including who benefits and who is left out. She is a money reporter covering development at the Chicago Sun-Times, with expertise in housing, construction and large-scale commercial projects. Her beat includes South and West Side housing initiatives, equitable transit-oriented development, office-to-residential conversions, Loop recovery, neighborhood planning, historic preservation, demolition fights and housing market pressures. She also covers projects such as The 78, West Loop towers and major community developments. Miller pairs project costs, funding, vacancy rates, sales figures and construction data with the views of residents, advocates, developers and officials. She explains how policies become homes, community spaces and changes to individual blocks, while examining affordability, supply, access and the future of neighborhoods.

Adriane Quinlan is a staff writer at Curbed who treats real estate as a way to examine culture, money, status, and power. She covers New York City listings, architecture, renovations, celebrity property, interiors, neighborhoods, leases, zoning, redevelopment, and fights over ownership and commercial space. Her stories focus on the people and daily lives shaped by buildings, from unusual apartments and converted industrial spaces to artists’ studios, shared gardens, and landmark properties. She previously wrote for CNN International and a regional daily newspaper, and her freelance work appeared in major national newspapers and magazines. As head writer and supervising writer for VICE News Tonight, she helped lead the show, won three Emmys, and created documentary and television projects. She reports through document-heavy research, sensitive interviews, close observation, and detailed narrative.

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.

Alex Garner is a business reporter at the Sheboygan Press who explains how development, employers and consumer businesses reshape the local economy. She covers real estate projects, zoning, water infrastructure, financing and long-range impact, including the former Mayline site’s planned luxury apartments and delays to a proposed Kohler golf course. She reports on major employers such as Sargento, Acuity Insurance, Johnsonville and Sartori, and measures how cruise ship visits affect downtown businesses. Her beat also includes retail, restaurants, food trucks, openings, closures and expansions. She covers civic issues where policy affects commerce and daily life, including license plate reader contracts, child care and government trust. Her reporting uses concrete details, clear timelines, public response and measurable effects to show what changes for businesses and residents.

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 Moore covers how real estate, development and government decisions reshape daily life for Summit Daily News. Her beat centers on Breckenridge and Silverthorne and includes housing, property deals, development proposals, business openings and closures, education, immigration, environment and town affairs. She reports on projects such as the Maggie Pond redevelopment, the Runway workforce housing neighborhood and Keystone’s Kindred Resort, explaining costs, timelines, taxes, governance and community impact. She also covers charter school debates, youth programs, public meetings, fire restrictions, wildlife, crashes and local events. Moore previously reported for community newspapers, covering rodeos, immigration and environmental court cases. She served on a nonprofit board focused on government transparency and open records and completed an investigative project on proposed changes to statewide public meeting notices. Her reporting is detailed, factual and accessible, bringing in residents, officials and business leaders.

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.

Alysa Guffey covers how development, business decisions and growth reshape communities for the Indianapolis Star. Her beat centers on real estate projects and the incentives behind them, including mixed-use housing, retail, data centers, corporate expansions and downtown trends. She has also written about Amazon’s new facility, Eli Lilly’s growth and Simon Property Group. Guffey reports beyond transactions, examining zoning, site plans, commission votes, tax breaks, employment, investment and resident concerns. She follows projects through multiple stages, from proposals and neighborhood pushback to approvals and construction. Her coverage connects physical changes to policy, financial and community stakes. She uses local testimony, development records and project details to explain how regulations, corporate strategy and public incentives shape the built environment and the people who live and work within it.

Alyssa Gautieri connects gift guides with the broader story of how people use, improve and value their homes. She is Senior Gifts Editor at Good Housekeeping, where she leads gift guide strategy and oversees commerce coverage of home, real estate and lifestyle. Her beat includes kitchen and living-space upgrades, organizing systems, decluttering, gardening, home products, wellness items and practical ways to improve a property’s function, appeal and long-term value. She covers everything from tested gifts and viral appliances to tiny homes, backyard structures, storage solutions and plant care. She reports through expert interviews, testing data, shopping and lifestyle trends, clear project lists and product picks. She also uses first-person experiments to measure what works. Her past writing and editing includes ELLE Decor, Chairish, Bob Vila, Unique Homes Magazine and Lodging Magazine.

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 Coen covers the lending ecosystem behind commercial real estate, linking individual loans and lender changes to interest rates, fundraising and investor strategy. He is a finance reporter at Commercial Observer, where he has worked since early 2021. His core beat is commercial real estate finance, with a focus on construction loans, refinancings, multifamily development, office, industrial and retail properties, CMBS, capital markets, policy and distress cycles. He tracks lenders, borrowers, loan sizes, terms, capital stacks and sponsor strategies across national markets. His reporting also examines Federal Reserve decisions, fundraising trends and how higher rates affect demand and capital availability. He has written for finance and investment-focused publications, including The Bond Buyer, Financial Planning, AOL Patch, Crain’s InvestmentNews, Institutional Investor News and the Nassau Herald. He writes straightforward deal news, data-driven features and broader capital-markets stories.

Andrew Marra covers how rapid growth, development policy and city finances reshape West Palm Beach for The Palm Beach Post. His beat centers on zoning, major real estate projects, housing, waterfront towers, property taxes and the politics of growth. He reports on neighborhood groups challenging overbuilding, tower-height proposals, zoning changes and city decisions to pause projects. He also covers budgets, public safety costs, political and financial ethics, convention center hotels, housing deals, Vanderbilt’s proposed campus, transit, elections and property wealth across Palm Beach County. Marra connects each project to who benefits, who pays and how growth affects residents and the city budget. His reporting follows public meetings, resident activism, official data, negotiations and specific development plans. Many of his stories are republished on national news sites.

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.

Andrew Weiland is known for scoop-driven coverage of commercial real estate deals, market shifts and development across office, industrial, retail and hospitality properties. He is editor of BizTimes Milwaukee, where he has worked since 2003, first as a real estate reporter and managing editor. His Real Estate Weekly e-newsletter breaks news on sales, foreclosures and development proposals. His reporting examines ownership, financing, vacancy, leasing, investment and changing demand, while also covering contested projects, data centers, utilities, regulation, land use and community impact. He writes commentary on business, policy, workforce and governance. He also joins WISN-TV Channel 12 each week to analyze regional business news, including health care, manufacturing, retail, hospitality, education and corporate moves. His work has won Milwaukee Press Club and Alliance of Area Business Publishers awards.

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.

Anita Lee is an investigative reporter focused on government, courts and public accountability, especially where public power, law and real estate intersect. She works at the Sun Herald and covers public corruption, transparency, legal proceedings, public safety, environmental risks, development and business disputes. Her reporting examines how official decisions affect families, neighborhoods, businesses, property owners and local economies. She explains filings, hearings, investigations, policy choices and agency actions in plain language, while tracking whether authorities are transparent and thorough. Lee joined the Sun Herald in 1987 after reporting for the Jackson Daily News and The Virginian-Pilot. Her notable coverage includes the murder of circuit judge Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Hurricane Katrina and the Nolan Wells case. She contributed to the Sun Herald’s 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning Katrina coverage and was inducted into the Mississippi Press Hall of Fame.

Annie Jennemann is a data journalist for Hearst Television who turns large datasets, archival records and public documents into clear stories. Her real estate coverage focuses on housing prices, market records, affordability, inventory and neighborhood change. She previously worked as a data and engagement reporter at The Baltimore Sun and held reporting roles with the International Center for Journalists, Kansas City PBS’s Flatland and the Columbia Missourian. Her broader work covers legislation, government pay, campus crime, political divisions, infrastructure failures, severe weather, racing history and changes in religious institutions. She builds databases, maps and interactive projects, including one covering more than 800 Maryland bills. Her reporting relies on precise counts, timelines, historical comparisons and spatial data. She explains how figures are compiled and makes complex information accessible to general audiences.

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.

Billy Wadsack tracks how money, tenants and policy reshape commercial real estate across the Dallas-Fort Worth market. He is Bisnow’s Dallas-Fort Worth reporter and contributes to The Texas Tea. His beat spans office, industrial, retail, multifamily and mixed-use development. He covers deals, sales, acquisitions, leases, financings, investment volume, corporate relocations, distress, rents, incentives, public real estate decisions and emerging sectors such as data centers and construction technology. His recurring DFW Deal Sheet explains who is buying, selling, financing or repositioning assets. He also examines growth corridors, master-planned communities, leadership and market strategy. His reporting combines transaction detail with broader market context, clear sourcing and numbers-driven storytelling. He joined Bisnow in August 2024 after more than two decades reporting and editing for daily, weekly and monthly publications.

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.

Brian Pascus follows how money moves through commercial real estate. He is a finance reporter at Commercial Observer covering national debt and equity flows, credit conditions, institutional investors and development. His work tracks construction loans, refinancings, private equity, REITs, logistics, data centers, multifamily and other specialized sectors. He also reports on CMBS distress, special servicing, restructurings and losses. His coverage connects interest rates, treasury yields, inflation and capital structures to deal economics and investor strategy. He writes concise, data-rich transaction stories that identify lenders, borrowers, sponsors, assets and loan terms. He also analyzes credit markets and reports from investment forums, translating views from senior industry figures into clear takeaways. He has covered Albany and City Hall politics for Crain’s New York Business and served as a national news writer at CBSNews.com.

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.

Bryant-Jon Anteola is a multimedia reporter at The Fresno Bee who connects specific homes, prices and neighborhoods to larger shifts in Fresno’s housing market. He covers sports, news and other stories rooted in local life, including real estate, commercial spaces, dining, attractions, safety, infrastructure, health and crime. His notable work includes “What $1 million buys in Fresno housing today,” a look at the five most expensive homes for sale, and features on an Old Fig Garden home, a Woodward Lake lakefront property and The Avenue. He also reports on the former BMO building, local restaurants and community safety. He writes stories and produces videos, using clear details, price points and concrete stakes to show how local changes affect residents. He has received a McClatchy President’s Award and an honorable mention from the Associated Press Sports Editors.

Candice Williams connects real estate and development decisions to broader economic change, showing how housing, retail and major projects reshape properties and streetscapes. She is a business and development reporter at The Detroit News, where she has reported since 2003. Her beat covers real estate, housing markets and development. She reports on housing inventory, mortgage costs, luxury home sales, corporate redevelopment deals, tax incentives and the reuse of historic buildings as apartments. She also follows retail recruitment, neighborhood commercial corridors and projects in areas such as Corktown. Williams combines market data with expert commentary and lived impact. She explains how rates, prices and listing volumes affect buyers and sellers. Her development reporting tracks financing, public incentives, private investment and expected returns. She includes residents, landlords, officials and business leaders to examine representation, inclusion and who benefits from change.

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.

Catherine Reagor is a senior real estate and housing reporter and columnist for The Arizona Republic, known for more than two decades of data-driven coverage of the metro Phoenix housing market through boom, bust, recovery and the current affordability crisis. She covers luxury home sales, major commercial deals, evictions, housing insecurity, investor purchases of mobile and manufactured home parks, homeownership programs, affordable neighborhoods, multifamily construction, development projects and neighborhood change. Her reporting links property deals to housing access, investment and regional growth. She uses sales data, public records, court filings and long-built sourcing to explain market trends and their effects on homeowners, renters, investors and communities. Her longer pieces place current headlines in the context of past cycles. She has received regional and national awards for reporting on Arizona’s housing market.

Cathy Cunningham explains how capital moves through commercial real estate. She is a senior editor at Commercial Observer and leads its finance coverage. Her core beat is complex commercial real estate finance, including large loans, refinancings, structured credit facilities, portfolio trades and lender strategy. She also covers institutional acquisitions, dispositions, executive moves and industry rankings. Recent work includes Mercedes-Benz Miami’s $1.1 billion financing, Tyko Capital’s $322 million loan for Integra Investments and JP Morgan’s $750 billion housing supply initiative. Her earlier publications include CMBS reporting, mortgage analysis and commercial real estate loan acquisition work. Cunningham reports on lenders, borrowers, terms, asset details and business plans. She connects individual deals to credit risk, capital availability and broader market trends. She also interviews senior market participants and moderates conferences on CRE finance, C-PACE lending and green lending.

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.

Charlie Breitrose is distinct for data-rich real estate reporting that tracks what sells, for how much, and what it reveals about the housing stock. He is founder and editor of Watertown News, an independent local outlet he launched in 2014. A veteran journalist with more than 25 years of experience, he reports, takes photographs, and manages the publication’s business operations. His real estate beat covers weekly home sales, open houses, inventory, high-value deals, and major development proposals. He lists sale prices, asking prices, property types, bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage, addresses, and open house times. He also covers government, business, food, schools, sports, cultural events, Pride celebrations, and community gatherings. His reporting is practical, detailed, and list-driven, while connecting individual properties to zoning, development, civic life, and neighborhood needs.

Chloe Jad connects real estate development to technology, retail and the future of work, treating projects as economic stories rather than isolated deals. She is a business reporter at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette covering retail, technology and artificial intelligence. Her real estate reporting focuses on development projects, industrial properties and large-scale retail expansion, with attention to jobs, unions, site history and community change. She also covers manufacturing, workforce initiatives, education and enforcement when they affect local economies. Notable work includes reporting on the Brickworks residential development, a former Corelle Brands glass plant, Meijer’s expansion, Chobani’s Pennsylvania plant, Shelfmark’s manufacturing AI and regional efforts to build an AI hub. She explains how projects, companies and technologies shape production, employment, training and communities.

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.

Dan Shingler connects commercial real estate to the jobs, companies and community forces behind each deal. He is a commercial real estate reporter at Crain's Cleveland Business, covering property sales and leasing, office markets, tenant movement, industrial land, redevelopment projects and the business climate behind them. He tracks how cities assemble land to attract light-industrial employers, and follows projects from acquisition through planned use, financing and job creation. His work includes the $75 million redevelopment of the Quaker Square silos complex and analysis of conflicting office-market data. Before moving into real estate in 2025, he spent many years covering energy, manufacturing and economic development. His past work examined manufacturing downturns, biomimicry, advanced metals, auto suppliers and hiring decisions. He has also reported on gun violence and community safety. He writes clear, fact-driven stories grounded in figures, companies and context.

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.

Danny Ecker connects commercial real estate deals to the market forces behind them. He covers offices, hotels and megaprojects for Crain’s Chicago Business, where he has been on the masthead since 2010. His beat spans downtown towers, suburban office parks and regional shopping centers. He reports on vacancy, distress, leasing, office-to-housing conversions, development plans, investor strategy, refinancing, property taxes and public incentives. He follows how remote work, tourism disruption, financing and policy are reshaping the property sector. His work uses vacancy rates, rent trends, tax studies and deal terms to show who bears the costs of a downturn and where recovery is taking hold. He also examines corridor overhauls and stalled projects by bringing together planners, landlords and public officials. Before focusing on real estate, he covered the business of sports and the convention and tourism sector.

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.

David Caraviello focuses on how design, setting and market forces shape individual properties. He writes real estate features for The Post and Courier, covering high-end homes and land across the Upstate and Midlands. His beat includes luxury lake and waterfront properties, Greenville-area estates and condos, Midlands acreage, development-driven demand, multifamily projects, rental trends and home-buying guidance. He has written about multimillion-dollar listings, historic homes, townhome projects, aviation estates and properties with unusual amenities. A journalist for more than 25 years, he has also covered sports, motorsports and general features for regional and national outlets. His work has featured athletes, artists, coaches, cancer survivors, fishermen, racing drivers, homeowners and developers. He combines narrative leads, careful scene-setting and clear reporting on layouts, renovations, amenities, people and local market conditions.

David Hochman covers luxury, travel, entertainment and high-end lifestyle through distinctive experiences and the stories around places, people and products. He is a Forbes writer, editor, author and editorial strategist whose work also appears in The New York Times, GQ, Food + Wine and Town + Country. His real estate reporting focuses on trophy assets, record-chasing listings and culturally significant properties, including the original Wayne Manor and a $300 million house. He covers exclusive dining, nightlife, chefs, restaurant openings, culinary trends and venues shaped by heritage or crisis. His travel work explores eco-luxury, hotels, chefs, wine regions and changing destinations. He also writes about entertainment, artists, events and celebrity-driven cultural moments. His reporting emphasizes price, atmosphere, personality, design, marketing and the cultural associations that give experiences their character. He founded Upod Academy and mentors writers and content creators.

David Lyons connects real estate deals and development projects to wider shifts in the economy, housing market and infrastructure. He is a business writer at the South Florida Sun Sentinel, covering growth and development, major projects, corporate real estate, rents, tourism, health care, technology, transportation and housing affordability. His work has appeared in the Miami Herald, Miami News and other newspapers, and he was editor-in-chief of the Daily Business Review. He reports on high-rise construction, mixed-use projects, retail centers, headquarters sites and rail systems, examining project scale, investment, debt, pricing, timelines and effects on neighborhoods. He also covers resilience, public health, immigration detention and institutional accountability. His reported news and enterprise pieces draw on developers, investors, officials and residents. He explains complex projects and policies in straightforward terms, linking individual transactions to broader patterns of growth, risk and change.

Debbie Cockrell tracks how real estate deals reshape communities. She reports on business and development for The News Tribune, where she has worked since 2009. Her beat covers commercial and residential property sales, industrial and warehouse sites, new housing and multifamily projects, tax-supported development, retail reuse, and mixed-use redevelopment. She follows major transactions, including shopping centers, corporate parks, former drugstores and big-box stores, and high-value distribution facilities. She also writes about hotels, showrooms, coworking spaces, childcare, and other businesses tied to specific buildings. Cockrell reports who bought a property, what they paid, its assessed value, acreage, prior ownership, planned use, unit count, timelines, and development agreements. Her work combines verified transaction detail with clear context on growth, investment, ownership changes, and future potential.

Denali Sagner reports how suburban policy, infrastructure, and development decisions change property, business districts, and daily life. She is a suburban reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, covering Montgomery and Delaware County communities. Her beat includes land use, housing, real estate development, township ordinances, local enforcement, school governance, climate resilience, flood planning, waste systems, and neighborhood economies. She has written for the Flathead Beacon, Billy Penn, Philadelphia magazine, 34th Street Magazine, and other publications. Sagner focuses on specific properties, streets, parcels, budgets, and public rules rather than abstract trends. She connects population growth to housing costs, tracks commercial development and land preservation, and examines how local decisions affect residents, businesses, public safety, and access to green space. Her reporting moves from ordinance language, data, and official plans to concrete effects in the built environment.

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.

E.B. Solomont follows the money through homes for The Wall Street Journal, covering luxury residential real estate and the markets where wealth, lifestyle and property meet. She reports for the Mansion section on record-setting sales, trophy properties, second homes and high-end housing. Her beat also includes historic and celebrity homes, office-to-residential conversions, rent-stabilized apartments, housing affordability, zoning and policy. She examines how affluent households use and finance multiple homes, including tax, legal and residency issues. Her reporting is often exclusive and deal-driven, grounded in transaction data, broker information and hard-to-obtain details about buyers, sellers and terms. She combines prices, property histories and market analysis with close descriptions of architecture, design and amenities. Earlier work covered real estate and business news, including high-value estates, political figures’ homes and broader housing trends.

Earle Kimel covers how growth, land use and local government decisions reshape property, infrastructure and daily life. He reports on Sarasota County governments, land development and environmental issues for the Herald-Tribune, where he has worked since 1997. His real estate coverage follows master-planned communities, major housing projects, downtown condominiums, infill development and neighborhood redevelopment. He explains acreage, home counts, zoning, design, parking, approvals and policy choices, showing how projects change streetscapes and existing business districts. He also covers stormwater projects, brownfields, hurricane mitigation, coastal infrastructure and resilience funding. His government work includes elections, public safety and business openings tied to growth. Kimel provides long-running context and explains how commission votes, zoning changes, funding programs and engineering decisions affect homes, neighborhoods and daily life. He uses detailed, on-the-ground reporting to connect development with community change.

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.

Elizabeth Schanz covers how real estate, philanthropy and the built environment shape business and community life. She reports for Crain’s Cleveland Business on health care, biotech, nonprofits, luxury and lifestyle, with a focus on properties, redevelopment, land use, retail, hospitality and small-business expansion. Her stories range from luxury estates and amenity-rich apartments to downtown plans, adaptive-reuse projects, capital campaigns and nonprofit campus upgrades. She also covers acquisitions, franchise growth, brand changes and local planning decisions. Schanz joined Crain’s in May 2024 as a general assignment reporter for Crain’s Detroit Business and Crain’s Grand Rapids Business, where she covered manufacturing, services, arts and economic development. She explains deal terms, regulatory steps, stakeholder interests, operational effects and long-term impacts.

Emma Wozniak reports on how development and housing decisions reshape neighborhoods and business districts. She is a business and real estate reporter for the Dispatch, covering apartment and mixed-use projects, office conversions, residential towers, housing trends, affordability, zoning, area commissions and community responses. Her past work includes coverage of Nationwide Realty Investors’ proposed office-to-apartment conversion, Franklinton’s Green|House Columbus, Short North developments and a historic grain elevator redeveloped into offices and retail. She also writes about home prices, scarce starter homes, weekly listings and architectural history. Wozniak connects individual buildings, streets and homes to market pressures, business decisions and policy choices. Her reporting uses precise details on addresses, square footage, unit counts, rents, amenities, design and completion dates. She explains development plans clearly and includes the voices of residents, businesses and institutions.

Eric Goldschein reports for Realtor.com on how real estate, personal finance, and travel trends shape buyers, homeowners, and communities. He stands out for turning complex financial, legal, and policy issues into clear, usable guidance. His beat covers mortgages, homebuying, down payments, savings, real estate agents, inherited property, HOA rules, contracts, home sales, safety technology, development, retail, layoffs, migration, and housing markets. He also examines how communities absorb changes in land use, privacy, infrastructure, and demographics. His reporting uses definitions, step-by-step explanations, practical comparisons, and expert input to connect fine print with everyday decisions. He previously served as a content lead and has written for personal finance, business, outdoor, and lifestyle publications. That broader editorial background supports a consumer-focused style that links individual housing choices to larger market and community forces.

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.

Fadia Patterson is an award-winning multimedia journalist at Spectrum Bay News 9 who focuses on the affordable housing crisis and underserved communities. She reports on access to homeownership, low-income families, mass evictions, tenant protections, housing laws, FHA loan changes, manufactured housing, real estate investment, and industrial growth. Her work has appeared in Spectrum News and includes investigative reporting that helped displaced tenants secure alternative housing and compensation. Patterson connects policy and market changes to the daily lives of renters and buyers. She explains complex laws, financing rules, investment trends, and development decisions in plain language. She also covers civic and community issues, including faith, culture, transportation, immigration, and local history. Her reporting combines policy analysis, market data, industry voices, and personal stories to show how housing decisions shape stability and opportunity.

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.

Gabrielle Fahmy covers how property, money and political power shape housing for the Sunday New York Post. Her real estate beat examines market shifts, rent-stabilized apartments, foreclosure risks, landlords, tenants, public figures and activist groups. She uses data-driven exclusives to explain changes in prices and demand, including Manhattan’s fall from one of the nation’s priciest housing markets and the widening gap between wages and home prices. She also reports on how regulation, mortgage debt and bank decisions affect regulated housing, and how political groups and public figures use property and wealth. Her reporting combines large datasets, lease terms, listing language and legal records with plain explanations and vivid narratives. Before joining the Post, she worked at Bloomberg, CBC News and CTV News, covering Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, the U.S. economy, politics, courts and the United Nations.

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.

Grant Welker is a Boston Business Journal journalist whose distinct beat links commercial and residential real estate deals to wider housing and development trends. He covers transactions, pricing, financing, asset values, zoning, housing production, affordability, conversions and waterfront redevelopment. His work includes major apartment and office sales, luxury condominiums, affordable housing projects, ballot proposals and the conversion of a Brutalist office tower into apartments. He also reports on sports business, retail, higher education and major development sagas. He joined the publication in 2021 as a projects reporter after working in business and daily newsrooms. His background in data journalism and special projects shapes reporting grounded in concrete figures, policy goals, architectural history and market context. He co-authored We Are Market Basket, a book about the Market Basket dispute, recognized as a leading business title.

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.

Hannah LaClaire covers Maine’s housing crisis through market data, policy reporting and stories about how people find and keep a home. She is the housing reporter at the Portland Press Herald, covering real estate, development, home ownership, rental issues and affordability. She tracks sales, prices and inventory to explain market shifts, and connects those trends to renters, buyers and communities. Her reporting examines construction costs, wage stagnation, housing legislation, eviction prevention, building regulations and affordable housing programs. She also covers major developments, failed projects, redevelopment efforts and housing shortages that threaten year-round communities and essential services. Earlier work included entrepreneurship, business and the state’s cannabis industry, including THC drinks and regulatory changes. She reports with clear statistics, policy analysis and on-the-ground stories that show housing as both a market and a lived constraint.

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.

Ian Lenahan is a Portsmouth Herald reporter who covers how real estate, housing and public policy shape everyday life. His work focuses on property markets, housing costs, affordability, development, zoning, infrastructure, public amenities and coastal access. He has covered luxury sales such as Rye’s $8.6 million Stone House, the cost of living for city employees, and the removal of free beach parking. He also reports on elections and how political outcomes affect development, public investment and housing policy. His subjects include cell tower debates near schools, PFAS contamination near a dump, drinking water and local oversight. His notable past work includes reporting for New Hampshire Public Radio and the Granite State News Collaborative. He combines features and investigative reporting with fast-paced breaking coverage. His reporting connects major transactions and public decisions to their practical effects on residents, workers, families and communities.

J.R. Duren explains how economic decisions and policy changes affect household finances, with a focus on housing costs, benefits and consumer spending. He is a consumer and personal finance editor at The Independent. His coverage includes homeownership costs, Social Security, retirement income, insurance, store closures, bankruptcies and other business decisions that affect shoppers. He connects mortgage, insurance and tax burdens with income, inflation and wider household expenses. He also tracks how benefit rules affect retirees and low-income households. Before The Independent, he wrote for CBS News and served as lead insurance editor at CNN Underscored Money. He has also held editorial roles at Investopedia and The Balance, covering credit, financial literacy, retirement planning and product reviews. His reporting uses data, expert commentary and company statements to explain what people pay, what protections they have and how their financial choices are changing.

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.

JJ Bullock tracks how commercial real estate, local business and government decisions affect residents and institutions. He works for the Peoria Journal Star and covers property sales, listings, development, taxes, utilities, jobs, venues and civic institutions. His work has appeared in the Daily Herald and the Journal Star. Bullock reports on buildings by naming the property, price, tenants, ownership and what a sale or listing means for the site. He follows projects from proposal to approval and explains zoning, tax incentives and public policy in practical terms. His coverage includes a 60,800-square-foot sporting goods store listed for $10.2 million, a Starbucks building sold below its asking price, downtown code issues, higher winter electricity rates, six-figure jobs, business openings and cultural donations. He connects transactions and official decisions to household costs, economic development and everyday life.

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.

Jackie Bauer reports for WCPO 9 News on how development, land use and public investment change Warren County communities. Her beat covers real estate projects, zoning, county government, taxes, business corridors, downtown improvements and public spaces. She joined WCPO 9 News in April 2026 after several years at another television newsroom. Her notable coverage includes a more than $200 million mixed-use project along the I-75 corridor, a proposed Restoration Ranch rezoning, the future of the Warren County Fairgrounds and a restaurant opening in a 150-year-old building. She also reports on plans for a performing arts center, tourism revenue, parks, festivals, airports and community amenities. Bauer connects specific projects and parcels to tax policy, public finance, infrastructure, maintenance and redevelopment. She explains how decisions affect residents, businesses and the character of surrounding communities.

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 tracks where money, technology and policy collide in residential real estate. He is a reporter at The Real Deal covering high-end deals, tenant upheaval, corporate strategy and regulatory shifts across U.S. housing markets. His beat includes affordability, rental vouchers, displacement, luxury and middle-market housing, new development sales, iBuyers, artificial intelligence, brokerage strategy, lawsuits and changing regional markets. He has reported on Opendoor’s reboot, Compass CEO Robert Reffkin, quiet Manhattan condo deals, the sale of 800 Fifth Avenue and major development disputes. His work connects individual buildings, executives and legal battles to broader shifts in supply, demand and leverage. He relies on deep access, interviews and narrative detail, using scenes and specific decisions to explain larger business changes. He also provides on-air analysis on The Real Deal’s Deconstruct podcast, combining market reporting, policy detail and human stories.

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.

Jason Knowles is a consumer investigative reporter with the I-Team at ABC7 Chicago, known for recovering money and exposing failures that harm consumers. His beat covers massive city water bills, real estate disputes, contractors, home-improvement conflicts, scams, pricing trends, social media and technology risks, toxic lead, red light camera traps and government accountability. He also reports on school bullying and safety gaps. His work has appeared in investigations with ABC News and in the Consumer Chronicles series. He builds stories around individual cases, viewer tips, regulatory records and on-camera interviews. He presses government agencies and businesses for answers, tracks disputed bills and seeks concrete results for consumers. He joined the I-Team in 2014 after working as a special projects producer and morning reporter. He also offers practical guidance on rising costs, fees and other everyday financial risks.

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.

Jayne Elliott stands out for using housing conflicts to examine power, boundaries, and responsibility in everyday relationships. She is a contributing writer and editor for TwistedSifter covering human interest stories, internet culture, and family dynamics. Her beat includes HOAs, property disputes, landlords and tenants, shared buildings, neighborhood conflicts, and family obligations tied to housing. She also covers money, inheritance, breakups, weddings, workplace disputes, and other moral dilemmas involving trust, control, and responsibility. Her stories often draw on internet culture and personal accounts. She retells one incident in clear, conversational language, focusing on disputes between homeowners, tenants, neighbors, relatives, partners, and coworkers. She pays close attention to who holds power and how people act under financial or emotional pressure. Short closing lines in her own voice add a sympathetic or wry frame to the story.

Jeff Bollier explains how housing, property ownership and development decisions affect affordability, access and community change. He reports for the Green Bay Press-Gazette on new housing, major landholders, public works, utilities, employers, consumer prices and corporate decisions. His work includes coverage of a Metro Fire headquarters with 85 affordable apartments, the region’s largest property owners, a proposed water rate increase, trail projects and local inflation data. He has written about why affordable homes are difficult to buy, how housing shortages affect households and employers, and efforts to spur affordable housing development. He also covers expansions, closures, leadership changes, sports venues and events as economic forces. Earlier, he launched the Streetwise business column and covered new stores and corporate bankruptcies. He reports by connecting individual projects and company news to ownership, funding, tax bills, investment and long-term economic impact.

Jeff Kiger follows the money, tenants and projects shaping the business and real estate landscape. He is a business reporter and columnist at the Rochester Post Bulletin, where he leads business coverage and writes the “Heard Around Rochester” column on new, expanding and closing businesses. His beat includes commercial and residential property sales, investment deals, development, retail, hospitality, housing, banking, biotechnology, manufacturing, health care and major employers such as Mayo Clinic, IBM, Hormel Foods and Crenlo. He has worked as a newspaper journalist since 1992 and at the Post Bulletin since 1999. His reporting is numbers-driven and deal-specific, detailing prices, buyers, sellers, prior valuations, tenants, construction plans and redevelopment goals. He also profiles the companies and professionals behind industry changes and tracks openings, closings and reuse of commercial space.

Jeff Quackenbush tracks how business decisions, property deals and industry shifts change operations, jobs and markets. He reports for North Bay Business Journal, where he has covered wine, construction and real estate since 1999 after earlier work for a regional wire service. His reporting follows commercial leases and sales, residential transactions, construction permits and schedules, industrial facilities, manufacturing changes and retail expansions. He also covers grape values, vine removals, harvest costs, corporate restructuring, plant closures, transportation changes, banking and business ownership models. Quackenbush focuses on concrete terms such as prices, square footage, timelines, production capacity, jobs, acreage, tonnage and earnings. He connects each deal or project to related development, regulation, suppliers, workers, revenue and competitive position. His stories use regulatory filings, financial figures, route plans and other specific details to show how companies operate and change.

Jeff Tucker brings economic analysis to daily real estate coverage. He is principal economist for Windermere Real Estate and writes regularly for Inman. His beat covers housing market fundamentals, inventory, mortgage rates, prices, demand, inflation, affordability and forecasting. He connects Federal Reserve policy, debt, jobs and consumer sentiment to local market conditions and transaction activity. He also examines the “vibecession,” household decisions, workforce housing, zoning and the uneven effects of the market across income levels. His Inman columns and video series include “numbers to know” updates and yearly outlooks. For Windermere, he produces “Local Look” and other data updates using regional MLS figures and national trends. He previously worked as an economist at a major online real estate marketplace. He reports through hard data, clear explanations, market forecasts and practical analysis of buyer and seller behavior.

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.

Jennifer Van Grove is an award-winning business journalist who covers growth and development for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Her real beat is real estate’s political, financial and neighborhood consequences. She reports on public land deals, major development, sports arena projects, adaptive reuse, waterfront proposals, zoning, environmental reviews, financing and investor disputes. Her coverage includes the Midway Rising deal, the California Theatre, Starlight Bowl, 707 Broadway’s office-to-housing conversion, High Street Village and the Chula Vista Bayfront sports complex. She examines legal risk, transaction documents, court filings, capital structures and the long-term use of contested or neglected sites. She treats government, investors and communities as part of the same land-use story. Van Grove began her career covering consumer technology and digital trends for CNET and Mashable. That background informs her coverage of real estate platforms, new business models and complex systems, which she explains in plain, direct language.

Jeramey Jannene follows how real estate projects and City Hall decisions reshape the built environment. He is president and co-founder of Urban Milwaukee, where he covers real estate, city government, transportation, politics and urban quality-of-life issues. His reporting tracks towers, adaptive reuse, redevelopment plans, zoning, tax-increment financing, commission votes, infrastructure, policing oversight and public services from proposal through approvals, financing, legal disputes and long-term fallout. He attends public meetings, reads agendas, public records and court documents, and returns to projects as plans change. His stories explain design, ownership, contracts, funding, committee actions and effects on residents and businesses. He also covers political events when they test municipal systems or connect national politics to local institutions. He publishes frequently in clear, chronological accounts grounded in procedural detail and follow-up reporting.

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.

Jerusalem Demsas is a politics and policy journalist who treats housing and real estate as questions of institutional failure, scarcity, and who gets access to opportunity. She is founder and editor-in-chief of The Argument, where she writes and hosts debates on housing, land use, urban change, labor, immigration, macroeconomics, and institutional power. She is the author of On the Housing Crisis: Land, Development, Democracy and was formerly a staff writer at The Atlantic. Her real beat is the politics of housing: zoning, permitting, public housing, gentrification, NIMBY-ism, neighborhood income mixing, residential sorting, race, class, and who moves where. She also covers liberalism, far-right movements, artificial intelligence, risk, and technocratic governance. She reports through clear, accessible long-form argument, using history, economic reasoning, political science, and research to explain structural forces rather than individual stories.

Jess Hardin traces how ambitious Texas real estate deals affect investors, tenants and the power players behind them. She is Texas bureau chief at The Real Deal, covering commercial and residential real estate across the state, with a focus on multifamily distress, syndication structures, major districts and development. Her reporting follows the rise and unraveling of syndicators such as S2 Capital, Lurin Capital and Nitya Capital, connecting debt, foreclosures and legal battles to conditions for residents and small investors. She also profiles developers and projects, including Mehrdad Moayedi, Harwood International and Gabriel Barbier-Mueller, and covers investment trends, luxury development, brokerage expansion and economic shifts in Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth and Austin. She works across daily news, enterprise stories, magazine features and The Real Deal’s Deconstruct podcast, pairing data and documents with narrative detail.

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.

John R. Ellement combines more than 30 years of criminal justice reporting with detailed residential real estate coverage. He is a digital journalist at the Boston Globe and works on the express desk, covering breaking news, courts, policing, public safety incidents, arrests, charges, legal decisions, and official responses. He was the Globe’s primary state court reporter and covered the police beat. He was part of the Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. He also frequently writes Boston.com’s Home of the Week feature for the Globe’s Address section. His property profiles cover homes ranging from log cabins to beach houses and riverfront bungalows, with prices, addresses, styles, sizes, utilities, taxes, layouts, and settings. Across both beats, he reports directly and procedurally, emphasizing verified facts, clear chronology, institutional context, and practical detail.

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.

Jordan Pandy is a real estate reporter at Business Insider who examines how moving, housing choices, and property strategies reshape people’s lives. He covers remote-work relocations, house hacking, buyer’s remorse, global moves, long-term house sitting, Gen Z real estate investing, housing affordability, property technology, and emerging ownership models. His stories follow the emotional and financial trade-offs of uprooting, from lower-cost moves and cross-border relocations to young landlords building portfolios and buyers taking on unusual properties. He also reports on rental-market data, luxury real estate, car condominiums, data centers, and Bitcoin ATM fraud. Pandy combines narrative as-told-to features with data-driven explainers and industry reporting. He previously covered luxury real estate for The Real Deal and moderated a panel on fractional real estate investing at Blueprint.

Joseph DiStefano follows where money, power, and work meet. At The Philadelphia Inquirer, he covers businesses, bosses, workers, fraud, and the regional economy. His core subjects include real estate, construction, industrial projects, pensions, finance, corporate accountability, ports, shipyards, energy firms, military infrastructure, strategic industries, and technology tied to defense. He examines apartment towers, logistics hubs, data centers, office moves, affordable housing, container ports, and major employers. His reporting connects contracts, lawsuits, balance sheets, investor documents, and public records with what happens on construction sites, in unions, and among workers, retirees, and communities. He uses dollar figures, market data, court filings, and interviews with executives, bankers, employees, developers, and investors to show how corporate decisions and public projects affect jobs, pay, risk, investment, and the built environment.

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.

Josh Jenke stands out for meticulous, list-driven reporting built from official records and schedules. He is an obit writer and news assistant at the Journal Star, where real estate is a core topic. He compiles weekly property transactions in Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties, often covering sales of $78,000 or more. His articles present the data in clear, standardized lists rather than interpretive market narratives. Jenke also writes service pieces on local leisure, including art fairs, markets and public swimming pools. His guides use numbered formats and practical details to help readers act on the information. He covers school calendars as well, reporting when classes begin across districts. Across these beats, he favors verified filings, institutional communications and structured roundups that make property decisions, recreation options and school logistics easy to scan.

Julian Nazar covers how commercial real estate deals, tenant decisions and development projects reshape neighborhoods. He is a real estate reporter at Crain's New York Business, focusing on office, retail and mixed-use properties across the five boroughs. His reporting tracks specific corridors such as Gowanus and Boerum Hill, individual transactions and how landlords, tenants and developers turn market momentum into changes on the ground. He has written about a $19 million Gowanus site acquisition, new 99-unit projects, restaurants at the Bank of America tower and a headquarters relocation to 655 Third Avenue. He also covers property-manager rankings and investment-sales data. His work combines interviews with developers, brokers and attorneys, city records, market reports and broker research. Previously, he covered retail, office and cannabis news for a business journal and local news for a community newspaper.

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.

Kate Kealey reports on how growth, real estate projects and business decisions reshape the built environment and daily life. She is the growth and development reporter for the Des Moines Register. Her beat covers real estate, development, corporate shifts, closures, jobs and public incentives. She tracks new construction, redevelopment, housing, headquarters, city-owned parcels, tax agreements and neighborhood change. She also reports on infrastructure, utilities, weather, local events, public safety and sudden disruptions. Her work includes coverage of Iowa’s tallest residential tower, a mass-timber headquarters, the redevelopment of a former OfficeMax site, plant layoffs and restaurant closures. She previously covered local government and community news for the Storm Lake Times Pilot. She explains projects and decisions through clear details, timelines, numbers, official statements and their direct effects on residents, workers and customers. She also writes practical service guides with maps, schedules and step-by-step information.

Katelyn Welsh connects luxury real estate, environmental policy and everyday infrastructure in her reporting for Tahoe Daily Tribune. She covers high-value properties, land use, shoreline access and architecture, including Shakespeare Ranch’s $125 million relisting and its complex history. Her environmental work examines climate strategy, microplastics in the Truckee River, forest protections and the Roadless Rule. She also reports on utility rates, county decisions, law enforcement, seasonal restrictions and regional plant use. For Sierra Sun, she has covered Placer County Board of Supervisors updates, holiday crime and an alcohol ban along the Truckee River. Her event coverage includes American Century Championship photo galleries, nonprofit funding and the Tahoe Summit’s activism. She uses close physical detail, scientific findings, regulatory documents, clear numbers, photographs and on-the-ground reporting to connect individual stories to longer environmental, civic and community trends.

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.

Katie Mulvaney is a longtime courts and criminal justice reporter at The Providence Journal who examines how legal decisions affect homes, property, victims and institutions. Her real estate coverage focuses on housing programs, property taxes and land use, not market transactions or lifestyle news. She reports on lawsuits over a home lost to fire, property owners challenging the “Taylor Swift tax,” and the displacement caused by Route 195. She also covers police records and accountability, including families seeking answers after a death, as well as clergy abuse cases, church finances, bankruptcy risks and institutional assets. Her broader beat includes criminal and civil cases, judicial appointments and asset tracing. She works from lawsuits, court records, institutional statements and financial records to show how policy and legal conflict reshape everyday life.

Keith Larsen is a senior reporter and investigations editor at The Real Deal who follows money and legal paper trails through real estate finance, bankruptcies, court fights and fraud. He covers U.S. housing and commercial property markets, including acquisitions, refinancings, development projects, lender risk, regulation and enforcement actions. His investigations include “Bankruptcy Beeline,” on developers seeking a particular bankruptcy judge; “Age of empires,” on Rubie Schron’s national expansion; and “Collateral Damage,” on investor Joel Schreiber. He has also covered the collapse of a summer camp business and a multifamily mortgage fraud scandal. Larsen combines court and property documents, data analysis and extensive interviews. He explains complex capital structures through written investigations and audio reporting. Before The Real Deal, he wrote for GreenBiz, the Charlotte Observer, the Greater Wilmington Business Journal and the Southern Investigative Reporting Foundation.

Kellyn Brown connects real estate to growth, housing and public decisions that shape economic and civic life. She is editor in chief at Flathead Beacon and writes the long-running “Like I Was Saying” column. Her beat includes housing affordability, residential building booms, development, local planning, public amenities, local services, unemployment, industry decline, job losses, tax debates, elections, party strategy and how policy and technology affect daily life. Her real estate work includes “Floor Space: What You Can Buy for About $1,000,000,” which uses a clear price point to show what buyers can find at different market tiers. She asks whether construction delivers affordable housing and examines how policy, budgets, regulations and economic cycles shape costs. In her column, she covers parks districts, sign ordinances, library planning, public assets and government decisions. She reports through pointed questions and specific examples.

Kelsi Karruli connects celebrity lives, controversy, and status with the homes that hold them. She is a senior celebrity reporter on the Realtor.com real estate news team. She covers celebrity listings, sales, disputes, security risks, luxury amenities, and the cultural meaning of property decisions. Her stories follow figures including Joy Behar, Savannah and Cole LaBrant, Aubrey Plaza, Gloria Steinem, and Jeff Franklin. She also reports on private islands, luxury dining spaces, celebrity home break-ins, protests, and development fights. Her work often includes exclusive deal details, sale prices, listing timelines, and buyer interest. She ties those facts to wealth, lifestyle, relationships, identity, privacy, and public image. She joined Realtor.com in 2025. Previously, she wrote for Daily Mail, True Urban Culture, and JMedia Corporation, covering celebrities, relationships, psychology, and gender issues.

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 Haas is the managing editor of the Rock River Current and a veteran local journalist whose distinctive beat connects business, real estate and civic life. He covers development projects, property sales, land use, housing, employers, industry, jobs and local ownership. He reports on affordable housing purchases, logistics parks, industrial expansions, manufacturing plants, pharmaceutical packaging, retailers and downtown businesses. He also covers data centers, permits, elections, public funding, violence prevention, youth programs, food access and public health. His arts and community coverage includes artists, restaurants, bars, festivals, sports and cultural history. Haas uses public records, budgets, permits, vote totals and other data, alongside interviews and on-the-ground reporting. His stories show how investment, policy and institutional decisions affect workers, residents, neighborhoods, services and the local tax base.

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.

Kevin V. Nguyen is a business reporter at The San Francisco Standard who explains how technology, finance and policy reshape commercial real estate. His beat covers office towers, retail centers, hybrid spaces, major leases, conversions, failed deals and institutional buyers. He tracks how AI, robotics and other technology companies turn growth plans, funding and product needs into leases, expansions, relocations and exits. He also covers banks, cash systems and how financial institutions affect lending and confidence in commercial corridors. Nguyen reports deal by deal, using rents, valuations, square footage, lease terms and building histories to explain wider economic stakes. He previously covered commercial real estate and sports business for a business journal group and sports and features for a daily newspaper. His work has appeared in major regional and national outlets.

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.

Kit Pulliam connects housing, banking and markets, showing how property, credit and cash flow shape household finances. They are a freelance financial writer and editor for multiple outlets, including a personal finance site where they cover Medicare coverage changes, and previously reported on banks and banking products at a major business news publication. Their beat includes manufactured and modular homes, zoning, housing supply, home insurance, claims disputes, home equity, investing, savings accounts, checking accounts and certificates of deposit. Pulliam explains how policy shifts, market moves and financial products affect savers, homeowners, renters and builders. They use homeowner stories, industry data and practical guidance to explain claim denials, contract fine print, borrowing and portfolio risk. Their reporting also covers investor behavior, crypto, stock picking and market commentary. They have several years of experience reporting, editing and fact-checking personal finance stories.

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.

Larissa Runkle turns distinctive homes into narrative-driven stories about architecture, history, landscape, and lifestyle. She is a seasoned real estate writer and marketing strategist with more than a decade of experience and over 1,500 published articles. At Realtor.com, she covers unique and luxury homes, celebrity real estate, design, housing, and lifestyle. Her features include a Gilded Age palazzo, a Willis Polk mansion, a midcentury modern estate, an off-grid bunker, and Cary Grant’s “Desert Disneyland.” She also writes about home lending, debt relief, personal loans, mortgages, and household finances for Bankrate, LendingTree, The Points Guy, The Penny Hoarder, Yahoo Finance, MarketWatch, and MSN. Her reporting blends vivid description with concrete details on price, size, land, amenities, renovation, valuation, and daily use.

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.

Liv Rowland reports on how France’s rules, taxes and bureaucracy affect property owners and residents, especially foreign homeowners and non-EU nationals. She is chief reporter at The Connexion, covering French property, tax, mortgages, residency cards, visas, post-Brexit rights, inheritance and notaires. Her work also includes travel rules, transport links and environmental pressures when policy changes affect residents and visitors. She explains subjects such as capital gains tax, social charges, forced heirship, equity release, mortgage access, passport rules, border checks and water restrictions. She tracks legislative and administrative changes, using laws, official statistics, expert analysis and estate agency testimony. Reader case studies are central to her reporting, showing how paperwork, legal disputes, policy shifts and practical decisions affect people buying, owning or building a life in France.

Luisa Yanez is the Miami Herald’s first AI-assisted reporter. She covers real estate and how wealth migration is changing South Florida, focusing on high-net-worth buyers, luxury enclaves, elite ZIP codes and the rules that govern them. Her reporting examines billionaire bunkers, security measures, homeowners’ associations, zoning, public incentives and the institutions reshaping Miami through technology, finance and culture projects. She connects property and development stories to history, civic life, policy and power. Her earlier editorial and opinion work addressed immigrant history, public institutions, local government, weather preparedness, labor and religious institutions. She has also written for community publications about suburban growth and long-term change. Yanez combines interviews, documents, observation and AI tools. Her style is direct and explanatory, with attention to rules, history, lived experience, access and who gains or loses.

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.

Maddie McGay stands out for showing how real estate shapes everyday life in North Jersey. She is the real estate reporter for NorthJersey.com and The Record. Her beat includes market performance, prices, mortgage rates, affordability, listings, sales and inventory across New Jersey. She also covers historic, notable and luxury properties, including a Frank Sinatra-linked Hoboken brownstone, an 1883 general store and a mansion owned by an aviation pioneer. Her work extends to local businesses, neighborhoods, culture and leisure through housing guides, historic home tours, events, hotels, books and content creators. McGay combines market data with stories about architecture, history and community life. She explains complex financial trends in plain language and focuses on practical effects for buyers, sellers and residents.

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.