Rupert founded Show House magazine in 1995. He has been a property journalist for 20 years, writing regularly on UK and overseas property for The Daily Telegraph. He hosts the annual What House? Awards and is a property expert on national television and radio. Rupert is also property correspondent of The Field magazine and a sports writer for The Sunday Telegraph.
It has been a quiet month in the life of this superhero. Nobody’s bothering to save the planet; they are more concerned with saving their jobs. I did ask some of the bankers at Lehman brothers leaving their desks with cardboard boxes full of their possessions if they would be recycling the boxes, but the green air suddenly turned blue. Kevin Brennan, head of sustainability at VELUX, warns that the parlous state of the UK property market is posing a serious threat to the UK’s green agenda and hindering further development of eco-technologies. More »
There's luxury property and then there's luxury property. Rupert Bates meets Mark Collins, managing director of Harrods Estates, to discuss how the other half do business. More »
That is the damning verdict from Eddy Shah, the media legend turned housebuilder. In a showhouse.co.uk exclusive, Shah says the construction industry is worse than the old print unions. More »
In a market where amateur investors are pulling back, it is refreshing to meet a man who is willing to put his money where his mouth is. Rupert Bates talks to buy-to-let entrepreneur, Grant Bovey. More »
Ian Sutcliffe was delighted when the merger of George Wimpey and Taylor Woodrow catapulted Taylor Wimpey in the FTSE 100. But when it comes to hunger for the hundreds, the UK chief executive of the £5 billion giant does not stop there. More »
Wootton Bassett is a place you would expect to find Gussie Fink-Nottle, one of Bertie Wooster’s Wodehousian chums, not union-basher, no-nonsense, highly successful businessman Eddy Shah. More »
