Esther Fung is a New York City-based reporter writing about commercial real estate across the United States, focusing on retail real estate. She covers property news for The Wall Street Journal and was previously based in Shanghai for seven years. In China, her coverage focused on the housing market, ghost cities and the massive impact the property sector had on the country. Her journalism career began in Singapore with MediaCorp's TODAY paper, where she covered local business news.

Esther received a Bachelor of Communication Studies (Hons) from Nanyang Technological University majoring in journalism and publishing. She also speaks Mandarin Chinese.