Jayashree Kurup

E. Jayashree Kurup is Head, Content and Research, at Magicbricks.com.Jayashree has been a business journalist for over two decades with The Times of India, The Economic Times and The Financial Express. She writes extensively on real estate and infrastructure, city management, information technology, human resources and management. She joined Magicbricks in 2006 and set up the content and research department for the brand. She has spearheaded many research initiatives such as PropIndex-India's Apartment Index, Housing Sentiment Index in association with IIM-Bangalore and the Value Analysis Report.Jayashree is involved with a number of global research initiatives and specializes in analysing research data to provide usable solutions to users. She also works with businesses in using industry dialogues such as Real Estate Dialogues (RED) and Broker's Connect with senior management in her domains of expertise to generate content solutions that keep audience and industry engaged. She forayed into research in 2002 as Head, Asia Pacific Research, Real Estate, with Insignia Brooke, a global property consultancy, headquartered in New York, where she analysed the real estate markets of India, China, Thailand, Philippines and Japan.In 2014, Jayashree won the Best Journalist Award of the Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC) Vishwakarma Awards.She is a regular guest columnist in a number of established media including The Times Group and others. She is an Executive Member of the CII Real Estate Committee as well as a Jury member for the Construction Industry Development Council (CIDC) Vishwakarma Awards. She holds a postgraduate diploma in journalism from the Times School of Journalism and is a postgraduate in English Literature from the Miranda House, Delhi University.Jayashree is a natural impressionist painter who enjoys walking nature trails and popular Hindi and English music from the '60s.