Real Estate Data Reporter

HW media; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with employer match

Comprehensive benefits package (health

Unlimited PTO + Paid Parental Leave

Job summary

HousingWire seeks a curious, analytical journalist to uncover housing stories using proprietary housing data. You’ll blend storytelling with data-driven reporting to reveal forces shaping real estate and homeownership for housing professionals.

You will mine internal datasets, validate findings, and craft accessible narratives with visuals and charts, working across editorial and product teams to amplify the reach of original reporting.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated journalism experience with real estate/housing coverage.
• Exceptional writing, reporting, interviewing, and storytelling skills; ability to simplify complex topics.
• Track record of producing accurate, original journalism under deadlines.
• Intellectual curiosity, editorial judgment and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing structured datasets, validating calculations, and translating findings into defendable journalism.
• Familiarity with spreadsheet analysis, data visualization or analytical tools is strongly preferred.
• Fluency with AI-assisted research and data analysis tools, with ability to independently verify AI-generated findings.

Responsibilities

• Drive original, data-powered journalism.
• Turn complex data into compelling stories with visuals and interactive features.
• Build a distinctive real estate journalism franchise across teams and formats.

Skills

Journalism experience

Storytelling

Reporting

Interviewing

Editorial judgment

Deadline-driven

Data analysis

AI-assisted research

Data visualization

Tools

SQL

Python

Datawrapper

Flourish

OpenAI/Anthropic/Google tools

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for a curious, analytical, and enterprising journalist to uncover compelling housing stories using our company's extensive proprietary housing data. This is an opportunity to combine traditional journalistic instincts with data-driven reporting to deliver original insights into the forces shaping real estate, homeownership, and the broader housing economy.

The ideal candidate is a skilled storyteller who knows how to look beyond the headlines, identify meaningful patterns in complex data, and translate those findings into compelling, accessible articles. You will use our rich internal data resources to identify trends in national markets and across markets - and why it matters to our audience of housing professionals.

This role sits at the intersection of journalism, data analysis, and real estate market intelligence.

Key Responsibilities

Drive original, data-powered journalism

• Mine proprietary housing data from RealTrends and HousingWire Data to identify newsworthy trends, emerging patterns, market shifts, and unexpected findings.
• Develop original story ideas leveraging our unique data assets to deliver insights unavailable elsewhere.
• Track key housing market indicators within and across different housing markets.

Turn complex data into compelling stories

• Analyze datasets to uncover meaningful insights, validate hypotheses, and identify the broader implications of market movements.
• Use charts, graphics, rankings, interactive features, and other visual storytelling formats to make complex information accessible.
• Collaborate with data and product teams to understand available datasets, develop new analytical approaches, and expand the possibilities for data-driven reporting.
• Apply rigorous data validation and methodological standards to all reporting, including verifying calculations, distinguishing observed trends from interpretations, and clearly communicating data caveats.

Build a distinctive real estate journalism franchise

• Develop recurring data-driven features, signature reports, and timely market analyses that audiences return to regularly.
• Pitch ambitious stories that challenge assumptions, reveal overlooked developments, and advance the conversation about housing and real estate.
• Work across editorial, research, audience development, and multimedia teams to maximize the reach and impact of original reporting.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated journalism experience, preferably covering real estate and housing.
• Exceptional writing, reporting, interviewing, and storytelling skills, with the ability to make complex topics understandable and engaging.
• A track record of producing accurate, original journalism under deadline pressure.
• Intellectual curiosity, sound editorial judgment and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing structured datasets, validating calculations, understanding statistical limitations and translating findings into accurate, defensible journalism. Familiarity with spreadsheet analysis, data visualization or analytical tools is strongly preferred.
• Fluency with AI-assisted research and data analysis tools, including large language models from OpenAI, Anthropic or Google, with demonstrated ability to independently verify AI-generated findings. Experience with data visualization tools such as Datawrapper or Flourish preferred. Proficiency in SQL, Python or similar analytical tools is a plus.

What Success Looks Like

• Producing original reporting that attracts and engages housing professionals, encourages repeat readership, drives subscriptions and reinforces HousingWire's reputation as an authoritative source of housing market intelligence.
• Writing daily stories on national real estate trends, including brokerage share shifts, agent count gains and losses, team moves, and M&A math.
• Setting up recurring, repeatable automated reports from our data that drive people to subscribe.
• Translating market findings into actionable context for housing professionals, connecting national and local trends to the decisions facing real estate agents, mortgage professionals, homebuilders and industry leaders.
• Consistently identifying newsworthy trends and insights before they become conventional wisdom.
• Building a recognizable body of work that industry leaders trust and reference.
• The metrics that are most important for this role are stories that drive paywall conversions and rank among the top weekly stories with subscribers.

Compensation & Benefits

• 401(k) with employer match
• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, and ancillary insurance options
• Unlimited PTO + Paid Parental Leave