A top anchor at ABC News is looking to sell his West Village townhouse.
World News Tonight host David Muir has listed the 2,300-square-foot prewar property on West Fourth Street for $7.5 million, according to an ad that appeared this week.
The narrow, 15-foot-wide home contains five levels, three bedrooms and three baths and details such as four decorative fireplaces, a formal dining room and a primary suite with a home office that takes up an entire floor.
Muir, one of the best-known faces in the broadcast news world, purchased the renovated Second Empire-style property near Charles Street for $4.2 million in 2013, according to the city register. The acquisition came a year before ABC tapped Muir for the nightly anchor seat, a selection that has paid off.
Indeed World News Tonight has regularly led rival newscasts on NBC and CBS, based on Nielsen ratings data. The week of April 21, for instance, Muir’s program drew an average of 7.4 million viewers, which easily bested NBC’s 5.7 million and CBS’ 3.8 million, according to Nielsen numbers compiled by the publication Adweek.
Similarly, World News Tonight attracted just over 1 million viewers in the coveted 25- to 54-year-old demographic during that time frame, which put it ahead of NBC Nightly News’ 907,000 and CBS Evening News’ 558,000, Adweek reported.
Why Muir, who reportedly enjoys a long-term contract with ABC worth about $8 million a year, is selling is unclear. Henry Hershkowitz, the Compass agent marketing the townhouse, declined to comment.
But in recent months the neighborhood has been awash in townhouse listings from TV talents and other notable media figures, though some of those sellers have found much more success than others.
A circa-1800 single-family dwelling on nearby Bedford Street belonging to Roseanne creator Matt Williams came to market in January for $12 million and found a taker just a couple of months later, though the sale price has not yet been recorded in the city register.
Hollywood megaproducer Scott Rudin, meanwhile, struggled to find a buyer for his 4,000-square-foot townhouse on Bank Street for nearly two years after listing the prewar property for $26 million in 2023. It finally traded at the end of December for about $20 million, or more than 20% less, according to the register.
More recently, in April, an eight-bedroom townhouse on West 11th Street owned by another executive connected with the hit show Roseanne, its late producer Eric Gilliland, came to market for about $23 million.
For his part, Muir has conducted interviews with a long list of world leaders, including both former President Joe Biden and President Donald Trump, as well as Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.
He’s also come under fire from Trump along the way. After the September presidential debate between Trump and former Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump accused Muir, the debate’s co-moderator, of bias. Muir had fact-checked Trump on live television after he falsely accused Haitian immigrants in Ohio of eating pets.
