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Alena Botros
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Alena Botros is a former reporter at Fortune, where she primarily covered real estate. Alena was an editorial fellow at Fortune for a year prior to joining as a staff writer. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California.

The housing market’s pivotal spring selling season is more like a shopping window: A trickle of new listings collides with sky-high prices and mortgage rates
Finance
The housing market’s pivotal spring selling season is more like a shopping window: A trickle of new listings collides with sky-high prices and mortgage rates
By Alena BotrosMarch 14, 2024
$22 trillion worth of the housing market—or 44% of all homes in the U.S.—is at risk of severe or extreme damage from environmental threats
Finance
$22 trillion worth of the housing market—or 44% of all homes in the U.S.—is at risk of severe or extreme damage from environmental threats
By Alena BotrosMarch 13, 2024
Photo of a woman's hand holding a small model of a home with keys
Finance
Shrinkflation is coming for your home
By Alena BotrosMarch 12, 2024
Fed chair Jerome Powell.
Finance
Inflation is now ‘moving more sideways than down’—and it could keep the Fed from cutting rates anytime soon 
By Dylan Sloan and Alena BotrosMarch 12, 2024
Housing market
Finance
Welcome to the housing election: Americans are trapped in their houses or outside the market looking in, and it’s focusing their thinking for November
By Alena BotrosMarch 11, 2024
Baby boomers aren’t going to crash the housing market—they’re powering it
Finance
Baby boomers aren’t going to crash the housing market—they’re powering it
By Alena BotrosMarch 8, 2024
The housing market’s deep freeze is showing signs of thawing
Finance
The housing market’s deep freeze is showing signs of thawing
By Alena BotrosMarch 7, 2024
Man sits on floor drinking water
Finance
The remote-work revolution means only managers can afford to live in pricey cities
By Irina Ivanova and Alena BotrosMarch 7, 2024
Texas’s big 3 housing markets built 300% more homes than California’s—despite having a far smaller population
Finance
Texas’s big 3 housing markets built 300% more homes than California’s—despite having a far smaller population
By Alena BotrosMarch 5, 2024
A new kind of remote work city just drove a $2 trillion gain in the housing market. ‘Pricey metros and pandemic boomtowns’ are drifting, Redfin finds
Finance
A new kind of remote work city just drove a $2 trillion gain in the housing market. ‘Pricey metros and pandemic boomtowns’ are drifting, Redfin finds
By Alena BotrosMarch 2, 2024
Row of homes
Finance
9 million homes will come on the market in the next decade as baby boomers age—but the ‘silver tsunami’ will be more of a ‘tide,’ Freddie Mac says
By Sydney Lake and Alena BotrosFebruary 29, 2024
California Forever
Politics
The Silicon Valley billionaires’ astroturf city being built from scratch is running headlong into a NIMBY backlash
By Janie Har, Alena Botros and The Associated PressFebruary 29, 2024
Brooklyn’s new borough president doesn’t care about the ‘character’ of your neighborhood. That’s ‘not more important than putting people in homes’
Politics
Brooklyn’s new borough president doesn’t care about the ‘character’ of your neighborhood. That’s ‘not more important than putting people in homes’
By Alena BotrosFebruary 29, 2024
Houses overlooking a cliff in Dana Point, California, where houses recently fell victim to landslides
Finance
A wealthy doctor refuses to leave his $16 million mansion even though it could fall into the Pacific Ocean
By Alena BotrosFebruary 27, 2024
Washington, D.C.’s hip U Street neighborhood hates a high-rise conversion that hasn’t even been started yet
Finance
Washington, D.C.’s hip U Street neighborhood hates a high-rise conversion that hasn’t even been started yet
By Alena BotrosFebruary 26, 2024
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