Catherine Carlock

Catherine Carlock is the real estate and development reporter at The Boston Globe. She has covered commercial real estate for more than a decade, chronicling changes to Boston’s skyline and the power brokers behind both the city’s building boom and development slowdown. She was previously the real estate editor for the Boston Business Journal, where she also covered women in business.

Carlock was part of the Spotlight team honored as finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service for its investigation into the for-profit Steward Health Care, a Boston-born hospital chain that's now bankrupt. The investigation won a 2025 Gerald Loeb Award and top honors from the Scripps Howard Fund, the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) and the Association of Health Care Journalists. In 2016, Carlock won a SABEW for original coverage of Boston’s 2024 Olympic bid. She was named a "Boston Power Woman" by Bisnow and won several awards from the New England Newspaper & Press Association on original real estate and government reporting.

A regular contributor to radio and television, Carlock’s work has appeared in The Virginian-Pilot, The Charlotte Observer, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Triad Business Journal, WBUR and WFDD. She interned at CNBC and was a Dow Jones News Fund intern with MarketWatch.com.

Carlock hails from Richmond, Virginia and arrived in Boston shortly before the record-breaking winter of 2015. She holds a degree in journalism and English from Washington and Lee University, where she won an award from the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) for online in-depth reporting. Reach her at catherine.carlock@globe.com or @bycathcarlock.bsky.social.