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WSJ taps Taylor as bureau chief for Mansion

January 23, 2026

Posted by Chris Roush

Candace Taylor

Candace Taylor has been named the bureau chief for Mansion, the luxury real estate section of The Wall Street Journal.

She was a features editor for the past four years.

Before that, Taylor was a residential real estate reporter. She joined the paper in 2013.

Taylor joined the paper from The Real Deal, where she was deputy managing editor. Before that, she was a senior reporter for several years, routinely breaking news and landing scoops on big real-estate deals, as well as writing in-depth feature and investigative stories, including a look at the behind-the-scenes tumult at a new condo building and a special series on real-estate crime and corruption.

At the Journal, she was the lead reporter on the Private Properties column.

She also worked at the New York Sun and the New Haven Register. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College and a master’s degree from Columbia University.

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