Writing Samples

Writing Samples

The vast majority of the economic reports and blog posts I authored in my three-plus years at CoreLogic (now known as Cotality) disappeared during the company’s 2025 rebrand, so the best I can do I do is link to a few semi-matching PR versions.

I always make a note to self to archive EVERYTHING I have ever written on the ever-fickle Interweb(since sites routinely shutter, companies routinely get bought, and archiving previous authors’ work is a very low priority for new owners) but that never actually happens when I leave a company or a project, which brings us to……..

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)

These samples are from a freelance writing job for business insurance carrier Next Insurance

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 clips are examples taken from a freelance ghost-writing project that I worked for a well-known Bay Area real estate executive published in a now-defunct small San Francisco neighborhood newspaper:

The Lure of Fillmore Street” – (October 2019)

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

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

These analyses focus on M&A 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)