Andrew Lepage Email & Phone Number

Irvine, CA

• Played several positions on a team of economists and analysts in CoreLogic’s Office of the Chief Economist (OCE), drawing on data analysis, data mining, writing, editing and media relations skills.
• Tapped public record, mortgage performance and other databases to generate and vet a wide variety of real estate market trend data for economists’ presentations, press releases and news media requests, providing.
• Generated all statistics and trend analysis, including quotes, for monthly press releases on housing market trends in Southern California and, separately, the San Francisco Bay Area, responding to reporters’ questions.
• Proficient with Microsoft Access (including as a front end to SQL), Excel, Word, and Outlook.
• Wrote blog posts on a variety of California and national housing topics, developing regular posts that helped OCE meet the company’s goal of aggressively covering housing affordability issues.
• Point person on quality control for national, often data-heavy press releases, improving the end product by ensuring data accuracy and editing for clear and precise writing that adheres to the Associated Press Stylebook.

Independent contractor responsible for analyzing and interpreting real estate data and handling daily press calls for one of the nation's most relied-upon sources of real estate information. (DQNews.com was a longtime partner of DataQuick Information Systems, acquired by CoreLogic in 2014). Recognized project manager of a four-contractor team during media.

Covered the statewide and regional real estate markets and housing issues in the state legislature. Spotlighted the risky lending and borrowing practices, including the explosion of sub-prime mortgages, that ultimately helped trigger the last housing bust. In summer 2005 began to chronicle the onset of the Sacramento region's housing slump, which turned.

Daily reporting on all aspects of residential and commercial real estate in Orange County's highly competitive newspaper market. Broke stories by constantly harvesting information from industry sources and the public, combing SEC and court documents, and analyzing local and national real estate and economic data. Focused on, among other things, issues.

Santa Barbara, CA

Covered all types of business news, especially the local economy, real estate, and the environmental issues and debates surrounding the Santa Barbara region's offshore oil and gas industry.

Southern California

As a full-time stringer, covered city hall, business and other news in the San Gabriel Valley and elsewhere in the Southland.