Alex Douglas is a business and real estate writer based in suburban Chicago, bringing together professional newsroom experience, firsthand brokerage knowledge, and a practical interest in property investing. He earned a BS from Arizona State University and went on to report for multiple newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, where he covered business and real estate.
Before focusing on real estate journalism, Alex spent five years as a Realtor in Phoenix, giving him direct insight into buyers, sellers, agents, negotiations, and the day-to-day realities of local housing markets. Today, his reporting draws on both his journalism background and his real estate experience to explain market trends, housing developments, and industry changes with clarity and authority. As a novice multifamily real estate investor, Alex also brings a hands-on perspective to coverage of property ownership, investment strategy, and long-term market opportunities.
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A modern home in Seattle’s Washington Park leads a week of sales that also reached Queen Anne Hill, the North End of Mercer Island, Redmond and Clyde Hill.
Atherton and Menlo Park took four of the five places, and a century-old Cow Hollow home kept San Francisco on the list.
Two newly built desert homes, a renovated Mediterranean on a Toscana fairway, a gated Chino Hills estate and a lakefront compound at Lake Arrowhead made up the top of the market.
Scottsdale and Paradise Valley shared the week with Arcadia, in a group that included two newly built homes and a rebuilt 1960s ranch.
Beverly Hills led the week, while four Orange County sales on the coast and in the canyons filled out the list.
The week’s top sales ran from a city lot in Cherry Creek to foothills acreage in Littleton and Evergreen.
Yardi says the new platform embeds AI in modules clients already run, opens live Yardi data to outside AI assistants starting with Claude, and adds agents for invoice approvals, lease audits and month-end close.
The justices denied certiorari in Zillow Group v. Jaeger on the first day of the new term, ending the company’s effort to undo a class certified over its 2021 statements about Zillow Offers pricing.
Sellers that cannot finish their UAD 3.6 transition can keep submitting the old appraisal format through May 19, 2027 — at the cost of collateral representation and warranty relief starting March 1.
The grocery-anchored REIT is contributing 13 centers across eight states to Grocery Retail Partners I, extending the venture to 2036, and raised its full-year acquisitions guidance to as much as $700 million.
CertifID acquired Austin-based Closinglock on Oct. 1, combining wire-fraud prevention with escrow payments across more than 3,000 title companies. Terms were not disclosed.
A newly built house in Little Rock’s Forest Heights Place sold for $2 million to lead reported home sales in the Little Rock metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
Five home sales reported across the Fresno metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026 were led by a $1.50 million closing in a gated community in north Fresno.
Freddie Mac’s 30-year fixed-rate average rose a quarter point to 7.28% on Oct. 1, the highest since November 2023, as the 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 5.29%.
A Memphis house on Dovecote Lane led the metro area’s five highest reported home sales for the week ending September 27, 2026, closing at $2,490,000.
A house completed in 2025 and set behind an electronic gate was the highest reported home sale in the Oklahoma City metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026, on a list that also reached Arcadia, Jones, Noble and Edmond.
A gated Wenmoor house with a theater room and an infinity pool sold for $1,860,000, the highest of five reported home sales in the Tulsa metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
An Oro Valley house in the guard-gated Stone Canyon golf community sold for $1.52 million to lead five reported home sales in the Tucson metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A Clements equestrian ranch sold for $1.30 million, the highest reported home sale in the Stockton metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A designer-renovated house on High Drive sold for $2.15 million to lead the Spokane metro area’s five highest-priced reported home sales for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A French Country house behind the gates of Salishan Estates in Carmichael changed hands for $3.23 million, the highest-priced of five sales reported across the Sacramento metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A newly built four-bedroom house on a private lane in Lake Oswego’s Uplands area was the highest reported home sale in the Portland metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A Rogers house with two studies and a room hidden behind a bookcase sold for $2,015,000, the highest reported home sale of the week in the Fayetteville, Arkansas metro area.
Battery Ventures led a $40 million Series B in Miter, which runs payroll and workforce operations for more than 2,000 contractors and says it pays about two of every 100 U.S. construction workers.
Carnegie Mellon said Sept. 30 that $2 billion of a $3 billion gift from Citadel’s Ken Griffin will fund a 35-acre campus in Wynwood, with construction slated for 2027 and students in 2028.
A high-floor residence at Ward Village’s Waiea tower sold for $3,820,000, the highest reported home sale in the Urban Honolulu metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A custom log home on 29.88 acres in Snoqualmie sold for $5.8 million, the highest reported home sale in the Seattle metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A Loveland house on the 10th fairway of TPC Colorado Golf Club sold for $2.60 million, the highest reported home sale in the Fort Collins, Colorado metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A Seven Oaks house sold for $2.75 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the Bakersfield, California metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
A 10-bedroom Rancho Santa Fe compound sold for $14.5 million, the highest of five reported home sales in the San Diego metro area for the week ending September 27, 2026.
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