From time to time I am quoted in a national newspaper, magazine or on a website. I haven’t recorded pre-Pandemic years but apparently linking to them is something that Google likes. Most are property stories but occasionally there’s gossip or something about pigs!
2023
- 11th May – UK house prices could fall by 10% before the end of the year after interest rates rise – iPaper.
- 9th May – How far can an estate agent stretch the truth on a floor plan? – ThisIsMoney
- 5th May – We’re house hunting: Should we go for the property that offers the best price per square foot or is there a better way to measure value? – ThisIsMoney
- 5th May – How to solve the housing crisis — for the long term – Times
- 5th May – As Michael Gove is taken to court by Berkeley Homes for blocking an ‘ugly’ housing development, should the UK’s new homes be easier on the eye? – ThisIsMoney
- 30th April – For years, holiday lets were a lucrative investment – often more profitable than traditional buy-to-let properties, but will crackdown wreck your returns? – ThisIsMoney
- 26th April 2023 – Why a shed-office adds £22,000 to your house price – ThisIsMoney
- 6th April – What the heck is going on with house prices? – Evening Standard
- 31st March – Don’t trust the asking price: Seven things that WON’T determine what your home is worth – ThisIsMoney
- 24th March – Could a ‘sweetener’ tempt you to buy a new home? – Financial Times
- 21st March – ‘I saved for my first home by investing in cryptocurrency’ – The Times
- 21st March – Why are asking prices in the capital rising AGAIN? – ThisIsMoney
- 2nd March 2023 – The optimal number of days a home needs to be on the market to get the best price from its sale – Daily Mail
- 28th Feb – ‘I’m a snob – I’d never buy a house with an artificial lawn’ – Telegraph
- 27th Feb – House prices at risk as buyers shun properties near polluted rivers – Telegraph
- 27th Feb – Property wealth held by homeowners ticks past £7tn – ThisIsMoney
- 21st Feb – How do I choose the best estate agent? – ThisIsMoney
- 10th Feb – Retreat of buy-to-let investors laid bare in stamp duty data – FT
- 29th Jan – Housebuilders call for revival of Help to Buy – Sunday Times
- 24th Jan – Is the property market facing a Mexican standoff? – Daily Mail
- 18th Jan – What NOT to buy now: nine features to avoid when house hunting in 2023 – Evening Standard
- 17th Jan – How to find a home to buy now – Evening Standard
- 6th Jan – Thatcher property revolution undone by plunging ownership – Telegraph
- 6th Jan – When should you buy a house in 2023? – The Times
2022
- 26th Dec – Experts predict housing market will cool in 2023 as UK enters a recession – Guardian
- 10th Dec – Six things buyers should never do when dealing with an estate agent – Evening Standard
- 2nd Dec – Fancy sinking your cash into a Grand Design? – Daily Mail
- 19th Nov – Votes for rent as Autumn Statement squeezes younger workers – FT
- 19th Nov – What a time to be a first-time buyer – ThisIsMoney
- 5th Nov – Collapsing chains are forcing house buyers out of the market in favour of lower offers – Independent
- 5th Nov – Will the Government tinker with taxes on capital gains and dividends? – ThisIsMoney
- 28th Oct – The end of cheap borrowing? – FT
- 19th Oct – How to secure a property bargain in this buyer’s market – Telegraph
- 16th Oct – How far do house prices need to fall for a property ‘crash’? – Sunday Times
- 3rd Oct – Will Liz Truss’ 45p Tax U-Turn Make Any Difference To Markets? – HuffPost
- 2nd Oct – How the mini-Budget triggered a week of chaos in Britain’s property market – Telegraph
- 1st Oct – First time buyers are ‘f**ked’ unless parents already own a home, expert says – Ladbible
- 27th September – UK lenders pause new mortgages amid market turmoil – Financial Times
- 21st September – Stamp duty cut could cause house prices to rise, cancel out any savings and price out first-time-buyers – iPaper
- 18th September – After an autumn flurry, is the UK housing market going to fall at last? – Guardian
- 31st August – Will UK house prices crash due to cost of living and inflation? The Money Edit
- 2nd August – Interest rates are rising – so why are mortgage rules being scrapped? – Guardian
- 25th July – Record number of £10m-plus London properties sold as pound falters – Guardian
- 8th July – Experts reveal their off market property buying and selling tips – Your Money
- 8th July – End of the affair: London’s super-prime market breaks up with Russian money – FT
- 12th June – Rate rises set to dampen red-hot housing market – Sunday Times
- 5th June – House prices 2022: why it is harder to trade up the property ladder – Sunday Times
- 4th June – Make ‘compromises’: How to save up for a house deposit – Daily Express
- 27th May – ‘A dating app for property’ – this is money
- 21st May – Bridging loans surge as UK buyers scramble for property – FT
- 3rd May – Can a new Right to Buy scheme revive Maggie’s home ownership dream? – Mail+
- 13th April – Breathing rooms: pollution and the property market – FT
- 1st April – Are estate agents tricking us, and do we really need to sign up for annoying emails? – ThisIsMoney
- 23rd March – Should we ask for offers in excess of, a guide or asking price for our home – ThisIsMoney.
- 21st March – I’ve broken up with my boyfriend and want to sell our home fast: Should we use a ‘quick sale’ firm – ThisIsMoney
- 4th March – Why does UK seem so slow at acting against Putin’s oligarchs? – Guardian
- 1st March – Property start-up Boomin says it has four tricks to get buyers ahead in a hot market – ThisIsMoney
- 25th Feb – Will flat prices see a post-pandemic boom as life returns to normal? – ThisIsMoney
- 19th Feb – The rise of the secret property market… and how to break in – Telegraph
- 23rd Jan – Would you pay thousands to a buying agent to find your dream home? – Sunday Times
- 21st Jan – ‘The Aga’s not included’: tales from an overheated property market – FT
- 20th Jan – 5 foolproof tips for a stress-free house move – Daily Express
2021
- 29th Dec – The house price winners and losers of 2021 – ThisIsMoney
- 26th Dec – Tired of life? No, just tired of London – Guardian
- 13th Dec – Unhappy birthdays in December – Eleanor Doughty – The Oldie
- 10th Dec – Will reservation agreements make it easer to buy and sell property in England and Wales? – The Times
- 23rd Nov – Home buyers gain £6bn tax break from Covid stamp duty holiday – FT
- 29th Oct – First-Time Home Buyers, Here’s What You Need To Know Right Now – HuffPost
- 21st Oct – State pension shock: how you can make up the shortfall – Interactive Investor
- 19th Oct – The art of being a ‘power buyer’ in a seller’s market – thisismoney
- 8th Oct – UK house prices hit ‘record’ high after biggest monthly surge in 14 years – iNews
- 21st Sept – Mind the gap! How much it costs to live near London’s two new Underground stations – Daily Mail
- 3rd Sept – UK enjoys property sales boom amid Covid-19 pandemic – Guardian
- 20th July – Don’t buy into the housing hype – ThisIsMoney
- 5th July – Are house raffles too good to be true? – Sunday Times
- 28th June – Buying agents reveal the nine key questions you should ask – ThisIsMoney
- 25th June – Runaway house prices: the ‘winners and losers’ from the pandemic – FT
- 25th June – Almost four in ten properties beat their price tag in red hot market – Daily Mail
- 12th June – The frantic race for the stamp duty deadline – The Times
- 9th June – The pandemic property boom is leaving our children with nowhere to go – Telegraph
- 8th June – How will the housing market fare after the stamp duty holiday? – FT Advisor
- 17th May – Trying to move home before the stamp duty deadline? – ThisIsMoney
- 14th May – People are panic buying homes as prices skyrocket around the world – CNN Business
- 7th May – Boom in off-market property sales – FT
- 28th April – How to deal with estate agents if you are buying a home in the current UK property market – iNews
- 17th April – How to win a bidding war but not spend too much – ThisIsMoney
- 10th April – South-facing gardens have become even hotter property during the pandemic – but how much is having one really worth? – ThisIsMoney
- 2nd April – House prices: what is your home worth in today’s property market? – The Times
- 26th March – Are you in a buyer’s or seller’s market? – ThisIsMoney
- 5th March – Stamp duty holiday extension: how to make the most of it – The Times
- 4th March – Budget 2021: stamp duty holiday extension will mean ‘spring stampede’ of buyers, say agents – Evening Standard
- 27th February – Need a quick sale to cash in on the stamp duty holiday? – Daily Mail
- 18th February – A third of bashful Britons don’t negotiate on their house price – ThisIsMoney
- 17th February – Is the property market hanging by a thread? – ThisIsMoney
- 2nd February – The coolest home in Britain? – Daily Mail
- 2nd February – Penthouses and poor doors – The Guardian
- 22nd January – Is the holiday over for rising property prices – The Times
- 22nd January – Ideal for an aspiring Fred Flintstone! – Daily Mail
- 18th January – First-time buyers taking longer mortgage terms as they prioritise monthly payments over house price – Telegraph.
- 14th January – Property values could be slashed by 30 per cent under plans to make leaseholders pay for £40,000 cost of replacing Grenfell-style cladding – Daily Mail
- 7th January – How will Brexit affect my finances – The Times.
- 4th January 2021 – How can we choose the best estate agent – and what should we pay them? – ThisIsMoney
2020
- 19th December 2020 – The most expensive streets in England and Wales revealed – Daily Mail
- 5th December – How the looming threat of forced sellers could hit house prices despite the vaccine – Telegraph
- 4th December – Are house raffles too good to be true? – The Times
- 2nd December – Why doing up houses can be a flipping good idea… This Is Money.
- 17th November – how a Covid vaccine could affect the London property market – Evening Standard
- 14th November – Super-rich buying up Downton Abbey estates to escape the Pandemic – Guardian
- 10th November – The stamp duty holiday has created a cliff edge which will only help homebuyers in the short-term – iNewspaper
- 5th November – UK house prices rise in October ahead of second lockdown – Financial Times
- 4th November – Is now a good time to buy a home in London? – Evening Standard
- 31st October – Three spooky homes for sale this Halloween – Daily Mail
- 25th October – Final furlough: will a jobs cull crash the housing market? – Sunday Times
- 9th October – Last orders? Not here! – ThisIsMoney
- 7th October – The aristocrat renting out his home to millionaires for £20,000 wants ‘no lefties, no Marxists’ – iNewsPaper
- 7th October – Banking industry sounds alarm on Johnson’s housing plan – Financial Times
- 6th October – “I’ve left London but I’m still struggling to buy a home on my own” – Times
- 30th September – Mortgage approvals rise sharply in rush to escape Britain’s cities – Guardian
- 25th September – We’ve had our house on the market for months and plenty of viewings but no offers, how can we get it sold? – MailOnLine
- 18th September – What’s the best way to get a lower offer accepted? – thisismoney
- 17th September – Can you save on Stamp Duty by buying with an annex? – Daily Mail
- 11th September – Do you really need to buy a property now? – Financial Times.
- 8th September – House prices to fall as ‘true scale’ of coronavirus becomes clear despite record high – Express.
- 5th September – When will UK house prices start to fall? – The Times
- 2nd September – will job cuts and a stamp duty holiday hangover pull the rug from under the property mini-boom? – ThisIsMoney
- 19th August – It’s just missing Christian Grey! – Daily Mail
- 14th August – HSBC increases minimum deposit for flats to 15% or 20% for new-builds – The Sun
- 3rd August – Nationwide cracks down on buyers who borrow from ‘Bank of Mum and Dad’ for home deposit – Independent
- 3rd August – Purple Bricks looks to abandon cheap fixed fees and start charging some traditional estate agency-style commission from autumn – ThisIsMoney
- 3rd August – Nationwide BoMaD restriction: the industry reacts – Mortgage Strategy
- 1st August – Should you move home now or wait? – ThisIsMoney
- 29th July – Property sales are 28% higher than before lockdown – but will it last? MoneyWise
- 27th July – Shift to home working could lead to drop in demand for commuter belt homes – Daily Telegraph
- 19th July – When should I buy? – Sunday Times
- 18th July – Stamp duty holiday: what it means for first-time buyers, home movers and landlords = Which?
- 17th July –Stamp duty cuts are already reinforcing a harmful cycle of housing wealth inequality – iNews
- 16th July – Coronavirus to cause average property value to plummet by £30k – Express
- 14th July 2020 – Why holiday lets are suddenly hot property – ThisIsMoney.
- 12th July 2020 – how will the stamp duty holiday affect the housing market? – Sunday Times
- 10th July – A plant lover’s paradise! – Mail Online
- 9th July 2020 – Summer Statement 2020: Homebuyers and sellers respond – Times Money Mentor
- 6th July 2020 – ‘Make your mind up!’ – ThisIsMoney
- 6th July 2020 – Rishi Sunak is told to slash stamp duty now – The Mail
- 6th July 2020 – How a stamp duty holiday would affect the property market and house prices – The Sun
- 27th June 2020 – Want to escape the city? Here are 10 UK property hotspots – Guardian
- 26th June 2020 – Is there a property crash coming? How to play the market now – The Times
- 25th June 2020 – Will house prices go up? – The Times
- 24th June 2020 – This time last year there were 145 deals for buyers with a 5% deposit… Now there’s ONE – ThisIsMoney
- 21st June 2020 – Northern towns & cities offer the biggest discounts as house prices are cut by up to 11% to help judder the market back to life – Daily Mail
- 16th June 2020 – Are properties that didn’t sell before coronavirus going back on the market at a higher price as sellers expect to be asked for a discount? – Daily Mail
- 6th June 2020 – Super-rich spot bargains as luxury London townhouse sells for just £15m – The Guardian
- 5th June 2020 – Meet the estate agents turning themselves into superstars – FT
- 30th May 2020 – House prices may fall 14% this year, says Nationwide, as recession hits and people stall on moving after lockdown – ThisIsMoney
- 30th May 2020 – Housing market signs of recovery but insiders warn the risk of down valuations is rising – ThisIsMoney
- 21st May 2020 – What is happening with house prices in London? – The Times
- 20th May 2020 – How to navigate the post-lockdown property market – FT
- 20th May 2020 – Millions of homebuyers face heartbreak as nervous lenders demand ‘unaffordable’ mortgage deposits amid fears prices will plummet 30% in two years in estate agents’ ‘worst nightmare’ – Daily Mail
- 19th May 2020 – We found a house before lockdown that we like, can the estate agent tell us how much other potential buyers have offered? – Daily Mail
- 19th May 2020 – Should you make your move? With the freeze on property sales finally over, find out if now REALLY is a good or bad time to buy or sell – Daily Mail
- 18th May 2020 – Homebuyers can check pollution rate – The Times
- 18th May 2020 – ‘Our buyer is demanding a 20pc house price cut’: the property market reopens with a price war – Telegraph
- 16th May 2020 – Housebuying is back: but the market’s mood is in need of refurbishment – The Guardian
- 16th May 2020 – Home buyers could be subjected to ‘health screenings’ from estate agents over the phone, Rightmove claims – but online browsing soars as property market reopens – ThisIsMoney
- 15th May 2020 – The Covid-19 shutdown could harm first-time buyers for years to come – FT
- 14th May 2020 – House buyers urged to ask for 20% discount as housing market restarts after coronavirus lockdown – The Sun
- 14th May 2020 – Mortgage firms could pull their deals even AFTER home buyers have exchanged contracts in coronavirus house price slump as 80 per cent of surveyors report deals falling through – Daily Mail
- 14th May 2020 – Buyers are demanding huge discounts up to 20% as housing market bursts back into life following coronavirus lockdown – Daily Mail
- 14th May 2020 – Piers Morgan vents he cannot visit ‘second home’ as property market reopens – Express
- 13th May 2020 – Piers Morgan says he can book 50 viewings of houses ‘full of families’ as he slams decision to reopen property market – The Sun
- 13th May 2020 – UK housing market to restart as viewings, moving home and visiting estate agents now legal as lockdown is eased – The Sun
- 12th May 2020 – Can I move house now? – Express
- 8th May 2020 – What will the UK property market look like after lockdown? – FT
- 8th May 2020 – How will Britain’s property market get moving again? Virtual viewings, looking further afield and a stamp duty holiday could be the way forward – Daily Mail
- 30th April 2020 – Lloyds expects house prices to fall 5% due to coronavirus – The Sun
- 24th April 2020 – Should you buy or rent a house based on a virtual viewing? – Which?
- 23rd April 2020 – What happens to house prices after you stall the economy and the property market? – ThisIsMoney
- 19th April 2020 – Coronavirus outbreak will halt 520,000 UK house sales in 2020 – The Guardian
- 15th April 2020 – What is the outlook for the UK housing market? – FT
- 9th April 2020 – UK property market moves into cold storage – FT
- 3rd April 2020 – Moving house during coronavirus: our experts’ advice – The Times
- 31st March 2020 – Coronavirus and house prices: how the UK housing market could be affected by the outbreak and lockdown measures – iNews
- 31st March 2020 – Can I move house during lockdown? How coronavirus is affecting the UK property market and house prices – iNews
- 28th March 2020 – ‘We were weeks away from moving’: What ARE buyers and sellers allowed to do as lockdown freezes the property market? – ThisIsMoney
- 27th March 2020 – Coronavirus Put a Stop to the Boris Bounce, So Patience Will Be Key for Buyers and Sellers – Mansion Global
- 27th March 2020 – How do you buy a house when you cannot leave home? – FT
- 27th March 2020 – What does the coronavirus crisis mean for UK house prices? – MoneyWeek
- 27th March 2020 – Coronavirus advice for homeowners and renters: your property questions answered – The Times
- 26th March 2020 – Number of homes sold in UK expected to plunge by 60% in next three months – The Guardian
- 25th March 2020 – Coronavirus: Banks and building societies stopping mortgage lending as homebuyers in limbo – The Times
- 25th March 2020 – Chaos for the housing market as banks stop mortgage lending and Michael Gove tells home-buyers ‘don’t exchange contracts’ – Daily Mail
- 24th March 2020 – Agents urged to embrace technology to ensure property market survival – Property Reporter
- 17th March 2020 – Coronavirus fears hit UK property market as viewings dry up – FT
- 7th March 2020 – Trendy coloured homes help house prices soar, research shows – Telegraph
- 4th March 2020 – Bucketheads and psychic readings: Britons take extreme measures as coronavirus panic takes hold – Telegraph
- 2nd March 2020 – British house prices to rise as UK-EU uncertainty fades – Reuters poll – Reuters
- 10th Feb 2020 – Dorchester Prison: Developer selling ‘at expense of taxpayer’ – BBC
- 7th Feb 2020 – Where are we in the property cycle? – FT
- 31st Jan 2020 – House prices after Brexit: here’s how the UK leaving the EU tonight will affect the property market – iNews
- 24th Jan 2020 – Chiswick property sellers demand top prices – FT
- 23rd Jan 2020 – Home ownership among young people rises for the first time in ten years in boost for housing market – Daily Mail
- 22nd Jan 2020 – ‘Mr Super Prime’ resigns after posting luxury home on Instagram – FT
- 20th Jan 2020 – House prices have surged by 2.3% following Boris Johnson’s general election win – The Sun
- 15th Jan 2020 – Buying a house: The deposit, the mortgage, and why I couldn’t do it – BBC 3
- 15th Jan 2020 – Turning Japanese… in Cambridge! Timber-framed house with an ENTIRE wall of sliding glass doors and windows is for sale for £1.29m – Daily Mail
- 3rd January 2020 – Will house prices rise or fall this year? – BBC