Everybody needs a roof over their head – even local businesses. Jonathan Lansner, a veteran reporter at The Orange County Register, details how to cover the story of real estate locally and nationally.
The last month of the year traditionally is a slow one for residential housing sales, as weather, holiday activity, travel and school breaks collide to make buying and selling houses a cumbersome task. But if you’re itching to do some sort of real estate story, why not find an angle in the booming multifamily market? Developers, [...]
With only a couple of days to go before even the most reticent of retailers – those who feel they must restrain the Christmas glee at least until after Halloween – unleash two months of merchant mania, it’s a good time to check in on the health of area shopping malls, strip centers and Main [...]
The drumbeat in residential real estate market news this year has largely been that of investors scooping up single-family homes on the cheap and turning them into investment rentals. It’s an interesting story with a lot of implications for property values, tax base, neighborhood character and other angles of interest to general readers. But this [...]
The federal government shutdown may be over, for the time being, but busineses, workers and consumers still are dealing with the after effects. And one area that ties together all three is residential real estate, which likely will feel the ripple effects of the interruption for some time to come. If you’re looking for follow-up [...]
As they say, time flies: Hard to believe that later this month it will be five years since the mortgage meltdown, Lehman Brothers’ bankruptcy filing and the start of Wall Street’s big slide, all of which triggered the recession that still has shrunk job prospects, retirement nest eggs, home-buying dreams and other expectations for a wide [...]
The 2013 Pro Farmer Midwest Crop Tour kicked off this week, and while that may sound something like a golf tournament with a down-home sponsor, it’s really a sign that summer is flashing to a close and harvest time is here. Which means a lot of good business stories are coming ripe for the picking. [...]
The rulings on same-sex marriage issues by the U.S. Supreme Court will generate a lot of social, political and ideological reaction. And they have implications for the business community, as well. Personal finance and related professional services seem the most fruitful arenas to start localizing this story. As USA Today points out, the ruling that strikes [...]
A word we haven’t heard much of in recent years suddenly seems to be rippling through the zeitgeist again: “Flipping.” The pre-recession practice of buying a house, fixing it up a bit and then within a handful of months selling it off to eager buyers is back, with a few post-recession twists. And with the [...]
With changing bylines on the same story, big-picture stories sometimes don’t make it onto the budget. But after writing another story about the bankruptcy filings and real estate struggles of two local businessmen, reporters at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch decided it was time to put the issues into perspective, says reporter Tim Logan. “Four of [...]
