Valerie Kellogg fell in love with real estate when she bought her first home in 2004. Monitoring the real estate ads and checking out open houses soon became an addiction. The housing gods smiled down when she got offered the job of Newsday's shelter editor in early 2006, overseeing the real estate, home, garden and At Home quarterly magazine. She had been at Newsday since 2000, editing the opinion pages, as well as the advice, faith, parenting and technology sections.
A 1994 graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, Valerie has worked at CBS (where she helped launch cbsnewyork.com), the Long Island Voice and the Bridgewater (N.J.) Courier-News. She teaches journalism part time at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, which she attended on a full scholarship package. She grew up in East Northport.
Valerie lives in Huntington (in a house she bought in 2006) with her husband, Richard T. McKenna, and son, Harrison.
Write to Valerie at kellogg@newsday.com with story tips, feedback (good and bad) or interesting properties.
Comments (2)
Why does Newsday have to write so many negative articles about buying and selling real estate on Long Island?
Contrary to Newsday portrayal, REALTORS ARE STILL SELLING HOMES!
HOW ABOUT FOCUSING ON THE POSITIVE ASPECTS OF BUYING NOW, like the low interest rates, and tremendous choice of homes?
How about the tremendous advantage to buyers in working with a buyers agent and they dont pay a dime more because their commission is paid by the seller?
How about the downfall of "discount" brokers like Foxtons who offered discounted commissions with limited services, which ultimately costs the seller far more in money and aggrevation than they could possibly save?
Despite the negative articles about foreclosures on the rise and how nobody can get cash out of their home, causing fear and doubt,people with good credit ARE still getting mortgages!
Thank goodness there are fewer unethical mortgage brokers and realtors than Newsday leads the public to believe.
Buyers are under the mistaken impression that they can get ridiculous offers accepted, which is the exception, rather than the rule.
Based on the bleak picture of how the market will only get worse, which Newsday portrays day in and day out, many buyers are "waiting until Spring until the market drops further." Historically prices rise in the Spring because of more buyer traffic.
I doubt you will have the guts to print or respond to this, but at least I have expressed the opinion of thousands of realtors and homeowners across Long Island who are tired of your gloom and doom only making a challenging situation worse.
Barbara Klepper
Licensed Sales Agent
Century 21 American Homes- Babylon
email: info@lihomechoices.com
Thanks for the SPAM Barbara Klepper....
Whatever you had to say might have been accepted as honest opinion if you didn't end your comment by adding your contact information, making it obvious that you posted looking for some free advertising.
Typical RE shill.