Biography:
About: "I am editor of Bricks & Mortar - The Times's property section which appears every Friday; I also write news and commentary for the rest of paper on the economy, housing and retail. At Bricks & Mortar, we also provide a daily online property update - Bricks Insider" - LinkedIn
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Career: Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday; The Times: November 1994 to the present as: personal finance editor, assistant editor (property)
Current position/role: Assistant Editor and Property Editor of The Times
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Broadcast media: regularly appears on TV discussing property, financial and retail subjects
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Awards/Honours: Headline property awards: Best Property Supplement, Property Editor of the Year and overall Property Journalist of the Year, 2008 (see: Times' Anne Ashworth scoops hat-trick at headline property awards, Press Gazette, 16th June 2008)
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Articles:
- Britain is a collection of micro-markets - As always, the respondents to RICS’ monthly canvass of estate agency firms shows that the UK - 14th June 2013
- Even tenants at the top are joining the squeezed middle and trading down - For £6,500 a week, that’s £26,000 a month (35 times the average rent in England and Wales, since you asked) you can lease a flat in a Holland Park mansion - 7th June 2013
- Cold pizza on the kitchen counter – it’s a sign that a home may be overvalued - The leftovers of the previous evening’s takeaway supper littered the surfaces of the grubby and decrepit kitchen, filling the room with the odour of stale pizza - 31st May 2013
- New property debates to be had - Coffee shop and supper party conversation this Bank Holiday weekend is likely to focus on the property market recovery, a source of contention among those who fear a bubble and those whose who have yet to see prices revive in their neighbourhood - 24th May 2013
- It is too early to be jumping for joy over the housing market’s bounce - The words “increase”, “increases” and “increased” collectively appear 67 times in the latest RICS survey of estate agents - 23rd May 2013
- It is too early to be jumping for joy over the housing market’s bounce - The words “increase”, “increases” and “increased” collectively appear 67 times in the latest RICS survey of estate agents - 17th May 2013
- Will the lettings market still be the Wild West? - The appropriate response to the news that lettings agents are to be regulated is not a loud “Hurrah!”, but there should be a small cheer - 19th April 2013
- Do you suffer from HPSO? It’s a dangerous complaint - The LSL/Acadametrics survey for March reports that house prices are 3 per cent higher than a year ago. This survey says that the value of the average property is £230,708, an increase of £6,700 over the period, but, if London were excluded from the figures the rise would be £1,117 - 12th April 2013
- A new way to buy new-build homes - It’s a new property market divide. The economic gurus are not impressed, but twentysomethings and growing families see an opportunity - 11th April 2013
- A new way to buy new-build properties - It’s a new property market divide. The economic gurus are not impressed, but twentysomethings and growing families see an opportunity - 29th March 2013
- The housing market in 2014 is guaranteed to be different following the Budget - For one thing, the tone will be distinctly North American. Mark Carney, the Canadian who takes over this summer as Governor of the Bank of England, will be enjoying powers as extensive as a prairie to keep interest rates low - 22nd March 2013
- Forget mansion tax for now, Chancellor, and focus on stamp duty reform - The ideal British home is “absolutely not a mansion”, although it would have many features of such an edifice, including a multicar garage, walk-in wardrobes and a large garden, according to a survey by the PrimeLocation website - 15th March 2013
- New recipe for kitchen supper property chats - Blue is the colour of 2013. Or, to be more exact, the particular shade of indigo blue paint applied to the wall pictured here - 8th March 2013
- New recipe for kitchen supper property chats - Blue is the colour of 2013. Or, to be more exact, the particular shade of indigo blue paint applied to the wall pictured here - 1st March 2013
- How are Lord Prescott, Ringo Starr and the year 1989 connected? - It has been a week of property market records. All are the result of government policies of widely varying degrees of efficacy and wisdom, but Ringo also has some involvement. You can now buy a Victorian terraced house for the price of £1 Liverpool - 22nd February 2013
- Is a tectonic shift moving Newcastle to the Midlands? - The newest way of looking at the property market has the potential to cause both offence and confusion - 15th February 2013
- The house that gained £400,000 in a week - Within the past week, the value of a home in Clapham, South London jumped from £1.6 million to £2 million - 1st February 2013
- Would you really want to raise a family in an old office block? - it has emerged that redundant commercial buildings could soon be turned into dwellings without planning permission, an exemption that would last for two years - 25th January 2013
- Streetwise: A little more confidence - Homeowners seem to have decided to defy the pessimists among the property commentariat, some of whom argue that homes are still expensive relative to average incomes - 18th January 2013
- It’s diet season, but we’re happy to feed our hunger for homes - In this season of self-denial, there is one addiction that the British will not renounce - 11th january 2013
- Next year lenders will still thwart our love affair with homes - Some pundits believe house prices will rise by 2 per cent or more in 2013, after this year’s dazzling, desultory or disastrous performance, depending on region. But whatever the outcome, the relationship of the British with the housing market will remain dysfunctional, thanks mostly to lenders - 14th December 2012
- Osborne must build us a housing policy soon - George Osborne, the owner of a nice place in West London, skipped the opportunity to improve the lot of other homebuyers or tenants in the Autumn Statement - 7th December
- Floods of tears if no deal is struck - Just as the flood waters surged over many parts of the nation, we learnt the name of the man who will help to determine the future climate in the housing market - 30th November 2012
- No wonder the landlord game looks beautiful - The conclusion “If it’s good enough for the footballer Frank Lampard, it’s good enough for me” may be the consequence of the latest rumours on possible changes in next month’s Autumn Statement - 23rd November 2012
- Housing: are you ready for the new normal? - The aspiration of the average affluent urbanite is to quit the city for the shires; the clientele of the private rented sector is almost exclusively young and childless. These are just two of the assumptions about the housing market that you should now be setting aside, according to the pundits - 16th November 2012
- Signed, sealed but when will those funds be yours? - Seven more years. Or should that be 19? Whatever the time period, it’s not a prospect that will inspire tumultuous applause or a shower of confetti - 9th November 2012
- Only more borrowing will start housing revival - There are no pictures of cats doing the funniest things, or of celebrities in bad outfits. Nevertheless, this website — or, to be exact, one of its pages — will be much bookmarked this month - 2nd November 2012
- First-timers shouldn’t bank on this retro scheme - The latest initiative to help first-time buyers on to the housing ladder involves a return to the 1980s. If the idea comes to fruition, then the music in the promotional advertising will surely be that hit of the era, Spandau Ballet’s Gold - 26th October 2012
- Rose-tinted specs won’t speed homes recovery - The psychological benefits of a glass-half-full stance are well known. But this attitude, however commendable, could have its risks in the current housing market — if you put your trust in the wrong places - 19th October 2012
- Landlords should follow the cycle path - Good bike storage - the ‘Pendleton effect’ is future-proofing incomes for landlords in the private rented sector - 5th October 2012
- The housing pecking order needs to change - Some quality pieces of property gossip were almost sufficient this week to divert our attention from larger concerns - 28th September 2012
- The launch of One Hyde Park demonstrates that the rich still want Candy - The high-profile launch of One Hyde Park in October 2010 was based on several bets. Would the prime Central London postcodes continue to be viewed as a safe haven by the rich who collect homes in elite locations — oligarchs, Bollygarchs and other “charm bracelet” buyers? - 21st September 2012
- New man at housing can cajole but not compel - Mark Prisk, the new housing minister, is not yet a household name, or even a property-sector personality - 7th September 2012
- Generation Boomerang will skew the market - On discovering my line of work, people tend to talk to me about homes - 31st August 2012
- As the nation’s fuel bills rise the allure of period features fades - Back to life, back to reality. The struggle to sort the property market’s sundry problems has resumed - 24th August 2012
- Should we stamp out duty? - Studies show the stamp duty changes are dampening enthusiasm in the formerly ebullient prime central London sector - 3rd August 2012
- Do you trust Whitehall’s choice of price index? - Suddenly there is even more jostling for position than usual in the overcrowded house price statistics industry. Is this some strange Olympic side effect? - 20th July 2012
- The sun should come out – but not tomorrow - Midsummer is not usually the time for house price predictions. But the current abnormal meteorological events could be disrupting the scheduling of economic forecasts, as well as everything else - 13th July 2012
- Our love affair with property is on a break - Who’s suddenly scared for the first time by the pronounce-ments of Sir Mervyn King? The wealthy, it appears - 29th June 2012
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