Alison Rogers

Alison Rogers (born in 1966 in Little Rock, Arkansas) is an American journalist and real estate broker. Her breezy memoir of her first year in real estate, Diary of a Real Estate Rookie, was published in 2007 and is now in its second printing. She is currently a Manhattan-based real estate broker at the boutique firm of Upstairs Realty.

Biography

Rogers was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and is a 1987 Summa Cum Laude graduate of Harvard University. She subsequently became a reporter for Fortune and then the founding editor of the real estate section of The New York Post. After two years at the newspaper, Rogers became an active participant in the field she had covered. She continues to write about national real-estate trends for Time.com.

Publications

Rogers has written for The New York Times, Money, and the Chicago Reader, among others. Diary of a Real Estate Rookie, which expanded upon her weekly column of the same name for the real-estate trade site Inman News, is a memoir of her first year in real estate. It was published by Kaplan Publishing, earning praise for its combination of witty anecdotes and tips for buyers, sellers and renters.