Mortgages & Property
I write about mortgages and property for both consumers and business-to-business.
I’ve written for a number of leading trade magazines aimed at mortgage brokers, independent financial advisers and financial institutions. These include Mortgage Introducer, Mortgage Solutions and Niche Commercial Finance.
I also completed a three-month stint at Money Marketing in Spring 2004 covering mortgages.
On the consumer side I’ve written numerous articles for both the national press and financial websites about mortgages, first-time buyers, the housing market and property.
- Mortgage Introducer: One bad apple
- Mortgage Introducer: Into the mix
- Mortgage Solutions: looking for clues
- Orange: Low base rate? Pay off your mortgage early
- What Mortgage: Flex your mortgage muscle
- The Daily Telegraph: Do your offset sums
- lovemoney.com: Is Woolwich’s lowest ever fixed rate mortgage any good?
- lovemoney.com: What’s your property worth?
- lovemoney.com: Don’t be swayed by estate agent jargon
- Orange: Mortgage lending shake up
- The Sun: Don’t be a lodger dodger
- Orange: Where house prices are falling fastest
- Orange: Escape the interest-only mortgage trap
- Orange: Fraudsters target tenants
- Thisismoney.co.uk: High street vs online estate agents
- Thisismoney.co.uk: Watch out for the costs of fixed rate mortgages
- Lovemoney.com: You’re too old for a mortgage
- Thisismoney.co.uk: Lenders cut buy-to-let mortgage rates
- Mindfulmoney.co.uk: Could you, should you – cash in on US repossessions?
- Lovemoney.com: How to be the perfect tenant
- The Guardian: Buy-to-let landlords: behind the bad image
- Thisismoney.co.uk: Would you trade cheaper mortgage payments for a slice of your home’s equity?
- Thisismoney.co.uk: Are letting agents ripping off landlords and tenants?
- Thisismoney.co.uk: The world’s eight most distressed property markets: could you grab a bargain home?
- The Independent: No cash in the attic? Perhaps there is some in a spare room?
- The Independent: Part exchange could be the key to the door of a new home
- The Guardian: Tenants and landlords: now you can air your grievances online
- The Independent: When tenancy agreements go bad: how to get them out
- The Independent: The owners of homes abroad fight legality of new tax plans
- Lovemoney.com: Five reasons you should never buy leasehold
- The Guardian: Unregulated admin fees hit leaseholders as they try to sell
- The Daily Telegraph: First time buyers hit by mortgage aparthied
- Thisismoney.co.uk: Why it has become harder for self-employed home buyers to find a mortgage
- Evening Standard: Beware speedy home sale deals that come at a cost
- Thisismoney.co.uk: Is it worth buy-to-let landlords insuring against tenants not paying the rent?
- The Observer: Beware the ‘cheaper’ leasehold option that could cost more in the long run
- Lovemoney.com: Lodgers vs tenants: how your rights and responsibilities change
- Thisismoney.co.uk: Mortgage advert blunders making comparing home loans an even tougher task
- The Independent: Help to buy ‘fuelling a new housing boom’
- Lovemoney.com: Homebuilders using Help To Buy scheme to mislead buyers
- Buytolet.com: How do you check a tenant’s immigration status?
- Buytolet.com: New mortgage options allow landlords to offer long-term tenancies
- Buytolet.com: Row after new rental price index shows lower increases
- Buytolet.com: London micro-market skews house price figures
- The Guardian: Rent-to-rent: the latest property get-rich-quick scheme
- Lovemoney.com: Don’t be an accidental mortgage fraudster
- Lovemoney.com: Councils are to blame for rising rents
- The Guardian: When leasehold property takes a grip on your finances
- The Guardian: Rent-to-rent guru disappears – leaving hundreds of tenants out of pocket
- Lovemoney.com: Why Eric Pickles’ tenants’ charter will never work
- The Observer: Landlords and letting agents in line of fire as tenants join fightback
- The Guardian: Lease options – win win… or lose lose?
- The Observer: Dig deeper before opting to buy your home off-plan
- The Guardian: Renting property: Living overseas is no easier than life in the UK
- The Guardian: Buy-to-let supremo shuts door on housing benefit tenants
- The Guardian: Renting: It’s war as desperate tenants face bidding for properties
- The Guardian: Landlords in the spotlight: how tenants can avoid getting stung
- This Is Money: Landlords complain of heavy-handed tactics by taxpayer backed ‘bad bank’
- The Observer: Are house part-exchange schemes good value for money?
- MSN Money: Tales from the crazy property market
- The Guardian: Landlords are wrong and tenants are right? The two sides of the eviction story
- Moneywise: Is this the end for cowboy letting agents?
- The Telegraph: Get-rich-quick property seminars make a comeback
- The Telegraph: Student “digs” offer a harsh lesson for investors
- The Independent: Shame on Wandle Housing – the not-for-profit association that gazumped its own buyers
- The Guardian: Rogue landlords exploit deposit protection loophole
- The Guardian: Landlord fined for renting room that could only be entered on all fours
- The Guardian: Housing association residents ‘cut off from heating five months of the year’
- Newcastle building society: Understanding house price indices
- The Independent: We can give tenants more protection but are landlords really motivated by revenge?
- The Guardian: Tenant power: how to battle a bad landlord
- Lovemoney: Barclays and Saffron revive stepped mortgages
- Lovemoney: HSBC launches 0.99% mortgage
- Lovemoney: Lloyds Bank: get one month’s mortgage repayment back
- Mail on Sunday: “We paid £12k for just a signature”: Flat owners must keep track of the years left on their lease – and act fast before it slips below 80
- Moneywise: Is it goodbye to buy-to-let?
- The Guardian: £10 to have a friend to stay? The hidden costs facing generation rent
- The Mirror: Two-bed flat in London sells for just £167,000 – but there’s a catch
- The Guardian: When sky high repairs bills can make right to buy the wrong choice
- Moneyweek: Should you incorporate to save on tax?
- Moneyweek: The trials of the expatriate landlord
- Moneyweek: Slash your capital gains tax bill
- Online Mortgage Advisor: The connected home
- The Observer: Owners of ex-local authority homes face horror bills running into thousands
- The Guardian: Self-employed? Here’s how to get a mortgage
- The Guardian: ‘Fleecehold’ complaints flood in as residents battle to turn tide
- The Guardian: Homeowners trapped by ‘fleecehold’ – the new cash cow for developers