Where Mike Kobeissi Publishes
Mike Kobeissi publishes on three channels, his Blogger blog, Medium and WordPress, and this page links each of them. Across all three he has written about real estate, historic homes and the housing industry. Writing about old houses rests on records that anyone can consult: the Library of Congress guide to house history describes rebuilding a building’s past from deeds and directories, manuscripts and maps, photographs and floor plans, and notes that deeds, building permits and tax assessments are usually kept at the local level.1 Writing about the housing industry leans on surveys such as the National Association of Realtors Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, an annual study of recent buyers and sellers published since 1981.2
The channels carry his own pieces. This encyclopedia stands apart from them as background: it explains the places, buildings and practices those pieces touch on, and its bibliography gives each piece a short reference entry.