Alison Rogers
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Alison Rogers is an American
United States
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 journalist
Journalist
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 and real estate agent. Her breezy memoir
Memoir
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 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
Manhattan
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-based real estate agent at the boutique firm of DG Neary Realty.

Biography

Rogers was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and is a 1987 Summa Cum Laude graduate of Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

. She subsequently became a reporter for Fortune
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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
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...

, Money
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Money is published by Time Inc. Its first issue was published in October 1972. Its articles cover the gamut of personal finance topics ranging from investing, saving, retirement and taxes to family finance issues like paying for college, credit, career and home improvement...

, 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
Kaplan, Inc.
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, earning praise for its combination of witty anecdotes and tips for buyers, sellers and renters.

"How to Find the Perfect Home," an article based on one of the book's chapters, ran as a supplement in the August 2007 issue of Money
Money (magazine)
Money is published by Time Inc. Its first issue was published in October 1972. Its articles cover the gamut of personal finance topics ranging from investing, saving, retirement and taxes to family finance issues like paying for college, credit, career and home improvement...

.

Advice

Since 2008, Rogers has offered real estate advice and commentary to a national audience. She served as the first "real-estate guru" on FiLife.com
FiLife.com
FiLife was a personal finance community featuring personal finance content from The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch and Barron’s. FiLife, which was short for Financial Life, allowed its members to find and review personal finance products, ask and answer money questions, and use tools and...

, a personal finance
Personal finance
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 site launched as a joint venture of Dow Jones & Company
Dow Jones & Company
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 and IAC. Subsequently she has written the column "Ask the Agent" for MoneyWatch.com and offered real estate advice to young women on the LearnVest
Alexa Von Tobel
Alexa Von Tobel is the founder and CEO of LearnVest.com, an independent personal finance website for women.Von Tobel came up with the idea for LearnVest in 2006 while a student at Harvard Business School when she realized and other women like her had never had any formal education about how to...

 personal finance site. Since 2011, she has been a columinst for Time.com's Moneyland. She is a frequent commentator in real estate chat rooms where she is known as "front_porch" and signs "ali r".

Real Estate

Rogers specializes in a Hollywood clientele and the Manhattan neighborhoods of Chelsea
Chelsea, Manhattan
Chelsea is a neighborhood on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The district's boundaries are roughly 14th Street to the south, 30th Street to the north, the western boundary of the Ladies' Mile Historic District – which lies between the Avenue of the Americas and...

, Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village
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, and the Upper West Side
Upper West Side
The Upper West Side is a neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan, New York City, that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River and between West 59th Street and West 125th Street...

. Careful to protect her clients' privacy, she refers to the television actor in Diary of a Real Estate Rookie as Bogie and his girlfriend as Bacall.

External links

Alison Rogers website http://www.frontporchllc.com/

DG Neary http://dgneary.com/BrokerWebsite3/DGNearyRealty/index_1024.asp?

Inman News author interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV9gMdgACTw

FiLife.com http://www.filife.com/

Moneywatch.com webcast on the national real estate market
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTJA6ZyqEpw

Time.com http://moneyland.time.com
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