CoStar hires Hagerty to cover Houston real estate

Kyle Hagerty

Kyle Hagerty, a real estate reporter for Bisnow, has been hired by CoStar Group to cover commercial real estate in and around Houston.

He has been at Bisnow since April 2016. While there, he broke the story about how Mattress Firm opened too many locations during an expansion.

Washington-based CoStar Group has been expanding its real estate news operation in the past six months and hired Dan Beyers, formerly with the Washington Post business news desk, as its executive editor last month.

Before Bisnow, Hagerty worked in a number of different positions, including as a tutor and as a ticketing analyst for Shell Trading, where he analyzed third-party oil tickets. Hagerty also worked as a superintendent for Epoch Construction Services in Houston.

He is a Texas A&M graduate in economics.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.