Writing Samples

Cotality [fka CoreLogic]

Many of the reports and blog posts I authored in my three-plus years at CoreLogic (now known as Cotality) have disappeared during their site rebrand/redesign, so I am still tracking down links. My apologies.

US Annual Home Price Growth Inches Up in August” (October 2024)

US Homeowners See Equity Increase to Nearly All-Time High in Q1” (June 2024)

Contract/Freelance Writing Samples

These samples are from a freelance writing jobs for business insurance carrier Next Insurance and a freelance ghost-writing prroject for a well-known Bay Area real estate executive from a now-defunct small San Francisco neighborhood newspaper:

California Business Insurance Web Page” – (Spring 2021; several more examples follow of the 50 state pages I wrote)

Illinois Business Insurance Web Page” – (Spring 2021)

Massachusetts Business Insurance Web Page” – (Spring 2021)

The Lure of Fillmore Street” – (October 2019)

Only One Local Home Sold Last Month” – (August 2019)

Pacific Union [dba as Compass] California Real Estate Blog

I conceived and authored about 2,000 blog post for this large San Francisco-based residential real estate brokerage over a six-year period, all attributed to the company to build and strengthen its brand before its eventual sale to Compass. The links below were just a few examples from my tenure there.

Pacific Union Quarterly Report: Q3 2017” – (October 2017)

Pacific Union’s October 2017 Real Estate Update” (November 2017)

The Bay Area’s Fastest-Appreciating Housing Markets: Q4 2018” (January 2019)

Video: December Bay Area Home Sales Report” (January 2019)

California Housing Affordability Drops to 10-Year Low in the Second Quarter” – (August 2018)

The Next Three Months Are the Best Time to Sell a Home in California” – (April 2018)

Silicon Valley Earns High Marks for Education in 2018” – (February 2018)

451 Research Tech/Finance Analyses

These analyses focus on merger and acquisition trends in the enterprise and consumer technology sectors, with data taken from a product that I co-managed between 2008 and 2013. The Inorganic Growth Blog has been removed by S&P but these are a few posts I could dig up.

Microsoft Gives Dynamics a Social Boost With Netbreeze Acquisition” – (March 2013)

Yahoo Back in the Market” (March 2013)




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