Coverage: Home construction rises 1.5 percent in October
U.S. home construction improved a slight 1.5 percent in October, but in a troubling sign, ground breakings for single-family houses fell. Josh Boak of the Associated Press had the news: The Commerce Department said Tuesday housing starts rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.23 million, up from 1.21 million in September. The gains came […]
D CEO magazine hires Jensen to cover commercial real estate
D CEO magazine has hired Jeremiah Jensen to commercial real estate. Editor Christine Perez writes, “Jensen comes to D from HousingWire, where he wrote about the multihousing sector on a national basis. Pieces included ‘Short-term rentals are the future of real estate,’ and ‘A look at the affordable housing crisis.” Prior to HousingWire, Jensen covered the Dallas-Fort Worth commercial real estate […]
Idaho Business Review paper names new commercial real estate reporter
Steve Sinovic, by the Idaho Business Review as special sections editor earlier this month, is becoming the paper’s commercial real estate reporter. He is replacing Teya Vitu, who is becoming the business editor at The New Mexican in Santa Fe. Sinovic joined the paper from the Albuquerque Journal, where he had been since December 2015, covering the tourism and […]
WSJ seeks two real estate reporters
Emily Nelson, U.S. coverage chief at The Wall Street Journal, sent out the following announcement to the staff on Thursday: All, We’re expanding our real estate coverage and adding two new reporting positions in New York. It’s an exciting time to be covering housing and the industry, and these jobs offer a chance to be […]
BizTimes Milwaukee reporter Hess leaving for WPR
Corri Hess, a reporter for BizTimes Milwaukee, is leaving the publication to work for WPR, the public radio station in Wisconsin. Hess will become its Milwaukee reporter on Nov. 5. At Biz Times, she covered commercial real estate, tourism and retail. Hess joined BizTimes in 2015. She has been a reporter since 2001, working at […]
BizTimes Milwaukee seeks a commercial real estate reporter
BizTimes Media (BizTimes Milwaukee & BizTimes.com), an award-winning media company that covers the southeastern Wisconsin business community, is seeking an experienced, dynamic, self-starting reporter to cover the commercial real estate beat. This is an exciting time to cover commercial real estate in southeastern Wisconsin. Downtown Milwaukee is experiencing a renaissance, as are several city neighborhoods. Numerous mixed-use developments […]
Coverage: Hurricane Florence, higher mortgage rates hurt homebuilding
U.S. homebuilding dropped more than expected in September as construction activity in the South fell by the most in nearly three years, likely held down by Hurricane Florence. Lucia Mutikani of Reuters had the news: Other details of the report published by the Commerce Department on Wednesday were also soft. Building permits declined to their lowest […]
WSJ seeks a residential real estate reporter
The Wall Street Journal is looking for a reporter to cover the residential real estate market, a high-profile beat and one of great importance to our readers. This reporter will join the beat at an exciting time, when growth in some of the country’s hottest housing markets has cooled, foreign buyers are pulling back, and […]
Inman News hires BuzzFeed’s Dalrymple as a reporter
Jim Dalrymple II, a reporter at BuzzFeed, has been hired by Inman News to cover real estate. He started Monday. “Its been an amazing 4.5 years w/ the awesome @BuzzFeedNews team & it was tough to say goodbye. But I’m super excited for what comes next!” wrote Dalrymple on Twitter. Dalrymple had been at BuzzFeed […]
Coverage: Mortgage rates hit a seven-year high
Mortgage rates are at their highest levels since April 2011 as Freddie Mac reported Thursday that the 30-year fixed-rate average jumped to 4.90 percent with an average 0.5 point. Kathy Orton of The Washington Post had the news: The 19-basis-point jump (a basis point is 0.01 percentage point) was the largest one-week spike in the 30-year rate […]
