Katherine Salant is a journalist and nationally syndicated real estate newspaper columnist, author, and blogger whose most famous column "Housewatch" appeared in The Washington Post from 1994 onward.[1][2]
Salant grew up in Northern Virginia and received her Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College. In 1968, she went to Harvard University to study architecture and received a Fulbright scholarship in 1972.[3] She has lived in Nepal, studying village housing.[4]
In 1994, Salant began writing a column about the many facets of home owning for The Washington Post called "Housewatch" which has since become syndicated under the name “Your New Home” to over 40 media outlets, some of which include the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Houston Chronicle, The Denver Post, Miami Herald, Orlando Sentinel, and The Sacramento Bee.[5]