Alison Rogers

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Alison Rogers is an American journalist and real estate agent. A 1987 summa cum laude graduate of Harvard University, she has been published in The New York Times, Money Magazine, Fortune Magazine, and The Chicago Reader, among others.

For ten years she has been the co-publisher of the Oscars joke site thefelixes.com.

In 2003, Rogers became the founding editor of the real-estate section of the New York Post, a position she left after two years to become an active participant in the field she had covered. She is now a real estate agent for the New York-based firm of DG Neary.

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Rogers' memoir of her first year in real estate, Diary of a Real Estate Rookie, was published by Kaplan Publishing in 2007. Expanding on on her weekly column of the same name for the real-estate trade site Inman News, the book earned praise for its combination of witty anecdotes and tips for buyers, sellers, and renters. One of the most successful real-estate books of the year, the book's second printing includes excerpts from positive reviews from Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly.

"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.

In early 2008, Rogers announced that she will serve as the first "real-estate guru" on FiLife.com, a personal finance site for people in their twenties and thirties launched as a joint venture of Dow Jones and IAC/InterActiveCorp.