Background
Rogers was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and is a 1987 Summa Cum Laude graduate of Harvard University.
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Alison Rogers
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Harvard University.
Career
Her breezy memoir of her first year in real estate, Diary of a 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. 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. 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, a personal finance site launched as a joint venture of Dow Jones & Company and InterActiveCorp. Subsequently she has written the column "Ask the Agent" for MoneyWatch.com and offered real estate advice to young women on the LearnVest personal finance site. Since 2011, she has been a columnist 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".
Rogers specializes in a Hollywood clientele and the Manhattan neighborhoods of Chelsea, Greenwich Village, and the Upper West Side. Careful to protect her clients" privacy, she refers to the television actor in Diary of a Rookie as Bogie and his girlfriend as Bacall.
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