Bankrate hires Kearns as a mortgage reporter
Deborah Kearns has joined Bankrate.com as a mortgage reporter. Kearns has a wealth of experience covering housing and mortgage issues. Prior to joining Bankrate, she freelanced for clients such as Credit Karma, Investopedia, Realtor.com, Country Living, RISMedia, The Mortgage Reports and Atlanta Magazine, among others. She previously covered mortgage news for NerdWallet and was senior editor […]
NAREE names annual real estate journalism award winners
The National Association of Real Estate Editors announced the winners of its 68th Annual Journalism Awards, recognizing excellence in reporting, writing and editing stories about residential and commercial real estate. Matt Clark, Newsday, received NAREE’s Platinum Award for Best Individual Entry. The President’s Gold Award for Best Freelance Collection went to Ronda Kaysen, freelance writer […]
CoStar seeks regional editors
This is a critical job. As a front-line editor, you will work with a team of reporters to deliver distinct, market-leading coverage to CoStar’s large and growing audience of real estate professionals. The ideal candidate will be able to plan and edit a steady stream of daily coverage while conceiving and executing our most ambitious […]
How a real estate reporter conducts a stakeout
Kirk Pinho, the real estate reporter at Crain’s Detroit Business, writes about staking out Michigan Central Station to break the story that Ford Motor Co. was purchasing the building. Pinho writes, “First it was every couple of days that I got in my car and scouted for new activity at the building. Then it became […]
San Francisco Business Times seeks real estate reporter
The San Francisco Business Times is seeking a scoop-driven reporter to continue our long-term ownership of the real estate beat. You’ll build on our history as the go-to source of news, data and perspective on San Francisco’s commercial and residential scene. Your top mission is to own the beat and inform and engage readers. Duties You’ll […]
SF Chronicle hires Li to cover real estate
The San Francisco Chronicle has hired San Francisco Business Times reporter Roland Li to cover real estate and business. At the Business Times, Li covered real estate and economic development since January 2015. Li is also the author of “Good Luck Have Fun: The Rise of eSports” from Skyhorse Publishing about the growth of the competitive […]
Phoenix Business Journal hires Vanek to cover commercial real estate
The Phoenix Business Journal has hired Corina Vanek to cover commercial real estate and the economy for the paper. She started Tuesday. Vanek replaces Mike Sunnucks, who moved to the Sports Business Journal. Vanek previously was a reporter at the Arizona Daily Sun, the local newspaper in Flagstaff, Arizona. While working at the Daily Sun, […]
WSJ seeks a real estate bureau chief
The Wall Street Journal looking for an enterprising and creative editor to run the Real Estate Bureau in New York. The editor will drive coverage of a vitally important subject: national housing and commercial real estate. Housing shapes the economy, our lives, and our communities. We need an editor able to call historic moments in […]
Coverage: Housing starts fell in April
The Commerce Department said housing starts dropped 3.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.287 million units in April. The decline reversed March’s rise, indicating that housing continued to tread water. Lucia Mutikani of Reuters had the news: Building permits fell 1.8 percent to a rate of 1.352 million units last month. Starts fell […]
Albuquerque Biz First ME takes over real estate beat
Christopher Ortiz, the managing editor of Albuquerque Business First, is becoming the paper’s lead real estate reporter as well. Ortiz writes, “I am continuing my role as managing editor but will take the lead on the coverage in our publication’s most prominent and popular beat. “But it won’t be just me. Going forward, everyone on […]
