Top Journalists in Undeveloped Properties

Peter Grant The Wall Street Journal

Deputy editor guiding and reporting WSJ’s real estate coverage, with deep reporting on office, capital markets, and government property disposals. Specialties: Commercial real estate, development trends, federal property sales, land deals

Konrad Putzier The Wall Street Journal

WSJ reporter focused on commercial real estate and how financing and policy shape development in major U.S. markets. Specialties: Commercial property, development pipelines, financing, landlords and tenants

Will Parker The Wall Street Journal

Covers U.S. housing and development policy for WSJ, including entitlement reform and state laws that affect ground-up projects. Specialties: Housing development, land-use policy, homebuilding, regulation

Nicole Friedman The Wall Street Journal

WSJ’s U.S. housing reporter tracking sales, pricing, and supply dynamics that drive where and when raw land becomes housing. Specialties: U.S. housing market, home sales, builders and lot supply, affordability

Katherine Clarke The Wall Street Journal

Reports on major residential development and land acquisitions shaping luxury and resort markets across the U.S. Specialties: Residential development, luxury projects, high-end land acquisitions

Prashant Gopal Bloomberg News

Bloomberg real estate reporter known for data-rich coverage of homebuilders, lot shortages, and demand drivers impacting greenfield development. Specialties: Homebuilders, land/lots pipeline, mortgages, housing economics

Patrick Clark Bloomberg News

Covers housing and broader real estate for Bloomberg, including how capital flows influence new projects and land strategies. Specialties: Housing, hotels, institutional investment, large-scale development

John Gittelsohn Bloomberg News

LA-based Bloomberg bureau chief/reporter covering real estate and homebuilding, with frequent reporting on permitting and ground-up activity. Specialties: West Coast real estate, development, homebuilders, California land use

Kriston Capps Bloomberg CityLab

CityLab writer/editor focused on housing and design—frequently covering zoning reforms, federal real estate, and development constraints. Specialties: Housing policy, zoning/land use, urban design, public-sector land

Diana Olick CNBC

CNBC’s senior climate and real estate correspondent connecting market moves and climate risk to land development and property values. Specialties: Residential and commercial real estate, climate risk to land, mortgages

Kathryn Brenzel The Real Deal

Senior reporter/special projects editor at TRD covering policy, politics and construction that directly impact new development. Specialties: Construction and labor, politics and policy, development/entitlements

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Keith Larsen The Real Deal

Senior reporter and investigations editor at TRD, breaking stories on development finance, land deals and enforcement actions. Specialties: Development finance, investigations, national land/deal coverage

Katherine Kallergis The Real Deal

Residential bureau chief and senior reporter covering South Florida’s development pipeline and new construction activity. Specialties: South Florida development, condos, master-planned projects, land sales

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Mark Heschmeyer CoStar News

Senior news editor/writer at CoStar News providing data-driven coverage of development, capital markets and large site transactions. Specialties: Commercial development, CRE finance, transactions, entitlement news

Candace Carlisle CoStar News

Senior CoStar reporter covering Texas and Sun Belt markets, with frequent scoops on land acquisitions and large-scale projects. Specialties: Texas development, industrial and mixed-use, major site deals

Jon Banister Bisnow

Deputy East Coast editor at Bisnow reporting on D.C.-area and East Coast development, zoning and major land deals. Specialties: Mid-Atlantic development, mixed-use, federal/municipal land actions

Jarred Schenke Bisnow

Atlanta-based Bisnow reporter covering Sun Belt development and the capital trends shaping new sites from raw land to delivery. Specialties: Southeast growth corridors, industrial/logistics, public-private projects

Eric O’Keefe The Land Report

Editor of The Land Report, the go-to publication on America’s largest landowners and significant undeveloped land sales. Specialties: U.S. landowners, ranches/timberland/farmland, mega-land transactions

Joe Gose Urban Land Magazine (ULI)

Freelance contributor to ULI’s Urban Land covering transformational developments and long-horizon land strategies across U.S. metros. Specialties: Urban development, public-private partnerships, land revitalization

J.K. Dineen San Francisco Chronicle

San Francisco Chronicle reporter covering development, land use and housing across San Francisco and the Bay Area. Specialties: Land use, zoning, major Bay Area developments, housing pipeline