Robin is a former staff writer at Forbes Advisor, covering mortgages, loans and the housing market. She previously worked as a contractor for SoFi, writing and updating foreclosure and housing market content. Her articles featuring home loan topics, mortgage rate and housing market predictions, foreclosure rate updates and lender reviews have been published or syndicated on Forbes Advisor, SoFi, MSN and Nasdaq, among other media outlets.

As a longtime homeowner, Robin is invested in her community and has followed local land use issues in her hometown of New York City for over a decade, inspiring her to pen the short play “Grassroots” about a cherished local bar forced to close due to high rents. “Grassroots” was included in the anthology The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2021, published by Smith and Kraus.

Expertise

• Mortgages
• Home equity loans
• HELOCs
• Lender reviews
• Housing market

Achievements

• Published or syndicated on Forbes Advisor, SoFi, MSN and Nasdaq
• Previously wrote and updated foreclosure and housing content for SoFi
• Over a decade of experience reviewing local land use applications
• Author of “Grassroots,” a play about a cherished local bar forced to close due to high rents, included in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2021, Smith and Kraus

Education

University of Pennsylvania, B.A. English, Cum Laude

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