About

Troy McMullen is an executive editor at ABC News in New York where he helps guide journalism ethics and standards at all of the network’s platforms, including Good Morning America and ABC News Digital. Before that he reported for ABC from across Europe and the Middle East, including from Baghdad in the aftermath of the US-led war in Iraq.

He’s also spent more than two decades writing and reporting on global trends in real estate, design, and architecture. First as a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal in Berlin and New York and later as a regular contributor to the Financial Times and Forbes magazine. These days he’s a regular contributor on housing and property issues for the Washington Post, Architectural Digest, and Connecticut magazine.

(View Troy’s latest work here.)

At the Washington Post, he often reports on the intersection between real estate and race. Cover stories for the Post include the economics behind a startling decrease in Black homeownership in the U.S., historically Black beach enclaves fighting to save their history, and the hurdles to homeownership for millennials of color. Other cover stories for the Post included a look at how the luxury sector is affected in the era of Covid-19, why an increasing number of first-time homebuyers are opting for multifamily homes, and how wealthy Chinese buyers are a growing force in some U.S. markets.

His work for the Financial Times canvassed real estate trends in the U.S and Europe, where he was based for several years. Stories for the FT included a report on coastal Oregon properties under threat from rising tides, how wildfires in the west are effecting housing values, and the way the booming art market in Manhattan’s Chelsea district is reshaping the real estate. At Home profiles reported for the FT include a look at musician Moby and his home in Los Angeles and a Nobel laureate in economics at his home in Boston.

At the Wall Street Journal, Troy covered all facets of the residential real estate over his nearly seven years with the paper in Berlin and New York, including a year as the “Private Properties” columnist. Cover stories he reported for the Journal include a look at star architects who designed single-family homes, museum architects that created art galleries for private collectors, and luxury homes with stigmatized histories. A cover story he reported on the rise in bias complaints by minority homeowners in affluent second-home communities was cited by the National Association of Real Estate editors.

He even profiled a Manhattan real estate developer who eventually became the 45^th president of the United States.