Outlet profile

The Real Deal

U.S. trade press (real estate); no consistent partisan orientation

Owned byPrivately held. Founder Amir Korangy is chairman and publisher. I could not find public details on any outside investors.

FundingMainly a business-media model. The outlet's own materials point to advertising and sponsored content, industry events and conferences, and paid subscriptions and data products. I could not verify the exact revenue mix.

On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

Amir Korangy, an Iranian-born journalist who grew up in the Washington, D.C. area, started The Real Deal in 2003 from his Brooklyn apartment. It was his third publishing venture, after the Gringo Gazette in Baja, Mexico, and the Washington Free Press. Stuart Elliott joined early as editor-in-chief. It began as a New York City real estate monthly and later expanded to South Florida, Los Angeles, Chicago and other markets. It is known for deal-driven reporting, market data and rankings, and investigative stories on developers, brokers and lenders. Korangy has described the company as a multi-platform media business that includes events and research products. Its readers are mostly real estate professionals, so its perspective is pro-business and industry-oriented rather than ideological. It has reported on the Trump Organization, the Kushner family's real estate dealings and federal housing policy, though I did not find evidence of a consistent pro- or anti-administration line in the sources I could reach. My search could not reach the outlet's own About page or its detailed financial and ownership history, so those parts are less certain.

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Profile compiled 2026-10-07; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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