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AWARDS


Platinum Award Winner for the Best Real Estate Story of 2020

National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE)
This Washington Post story covered the race gap in homeownership.
Best Online Financial Real Estate Story National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE)
This Mansion Global article looked at how homeowners were handling the initial stages of supply chain problems.


Best Interior Design Story 2020
National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE)
This Washington Post article covered the value of bringing natural materials indoors such as wood and stone.
Best Architecture Story 2020
National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE)
This Washington Post article covered "cottage neighborhoods" as a solution for downsizing and creating community.
Best Mortgage Story 2020 National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE)
This Boston Globe article covered the frustration experienced by VA loan borrowers in a competitive housing market.



Best International Real Estate Story
June 2019  National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE)
This Washington Post article looks at the details of how four couples managed to the live the dream of moving overseas.

Best Collection of Work by Individual Covering Residential Real Estate
June 2019  National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE)

This collection of stories in The Washington Post addresses what happens when home price gains outstrip incomes, from where to live (think Sacramento and Nashville) to downsizing baby boomers calculating whether to rent or buy.


Best Interior Design Story June 2018  National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE)
Best interior design story award for my article in The Washington Post real estate section:about transforming a center hall colonial-style house into a modern family home.



Best Residential, Mortgage or Financial Real Estate Magazine Story June 2018 National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE)

 Gold Award for article in The Washington Post Sunday Magazine:about an art collector who squeezed 40 works of art into his basement apartment.

The President’s Gold Award for Best Freelance Collection
June 2017 National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE)

This top award was given in recognition of wide-ranging articles in The Washington Post and New Home Source about everything from using a housing voucher to buy a house to how one homeowner opted to buy his favorite items from a local tavern that was closing and recreate it in his basement.

Best Mortgage or Financial Real Estate Story in a Daily Newspaper
June 2017 National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE)

The article, which appeared in The Washington Post, reported on a little-known housing voucher program that can be used to purchase a home rather than rent.

 Best Architecture Story
June 2017 National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE)

The article, which appeared in The Washington Post, focused on how modular additions can be a less costly and simpler solution to a custom remodel.

Best Interior Design Story
June 2017 honor issuer National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE)

This Washington Post story was about a suburban Washington tavern
that was so loved that a couple who went there bought many of the things inside of it
when it closed and recreated it in their basement.

Best Mortgage or Financial Real Estate Story in a Daily Newspaper
June 2016 National Association of Real Estate Editors (NAREE)

Awarded for my Washington Post article educating first-time homebuyers.