NY Daily News real estate editor Chaban hired by NY Times

Matt Chaban, the real estate editor at the New York Daily News, has been hired by the New York Times to write its weekly real estate column, The Appraisal, reports Joe Pompeo of Capital New York.

Pompeo posted the following announcement from Times metro editor Wendell Jamieson:

We’re excited to announce a new writer for that Metro gem of a column, The Appraisal: Matt Chaban, who comes to us from The Daily News. Matt is a terrific writer with a sharp and sophisticated sense of New York real estate and the worlds of luxury and stress it entails. He brought a bucket-full of ideas for the column; more than a few will be pitched to A1.

Matt (last name pronounced CHAY-ben) served as the real estate editor at The News, where he wrote, edited and helped design the Friday Best Places to Live section every week. He also wrote regular daily stories on a range of subjects, including Rihanna’s new SoHo loft; Bill de Blasio’s picks for housing, planning and parks commissioners; a new “perfume park” on the Gowanus; and spending the night in a Mike-ro apartment with his wife, Nellie. Before The News, Matt was a reporter at Crain’s and real estate editor at the Observer. He got his start as an intern, reporter and editor at The Architect’s Newspaper (the name says it all) where he covered design, planning and development politics as well as revamping the website. A proud son of Pittsburgh, he now calls another reborn sub-metropolis home: Jersey City.

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