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    Nathan Brooker

    House & Home editor

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    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      House & Home
      Is a frozen market worse than a house price crash?

      UK housing downturns tend to live long in the memory, but a period of stagnation could be even more painful

    • Monday, 23 May, 2022
      FT Globetrotter
      Four of London’s most majestic Platinum Jubilee afternoon teas

      Mark the Queen’s 70 years on the throne in sybaritic style at this quartet of the capital’s smartest hotels

    • Saturday, 3 July, 2021
      FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties
      Nathan Brooker’s fantasy dinner party — Fran Lebowitz, James Joyce . . .  and George Costanza

      The FT’s House & Home editor invites a motley crew of raconteurs and Seinfeld’s pal to the Italian Riviera

    • Thursday, 24 December, 2020
      House & Home
      The year the UK housing market defied gravity

      But there are reasons to believe that the ‘mini boom’ will not survive into 2021

    • Friday, 11 December, 2020
      Prime property
      Hot property: Christmas escapes

      From a Grade II*-listed Elizabethan property in the UK to a ski resort in the French Alps

    • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
      Residential property
      England’s cladding crisis creates 2m ‘mortgage prisoners’

      Many flats left effectively unsellable as government struggles with aftermath of Grenfell disaster

    • Thursday, 5 November, 2020
      Special ReportRisk Management: Property
      Property offers ready shelter for criminal wealth

      Some argue that a cultural shift needs to take place in the property industry, akin to that which has been occurring at financial institutions

    • Friday, 23 October, 2020
      House & Home
      How our cities changed when the tourists stopped coming

      FT correspondents report on the residents reclaiming their home towns

    • Friday, 2 October, 2020
      European prime property
      Hot property: Italy’s Ligurian coast

      From a modern eco-friendly house to a Liberty-style villa

    • Friday, 25 September, 2020
      European prime property
      Hot Property: Provence toujours

      From a bastide with a greenhouse to a château with a vineyard

    • Thursday, 3 September, 2020
      Television
      BingeWatch — This Country combines sharp comedy with pointed social comment

      The BBC mockumentary follows two cousins in a stagnating English village

    • Wednesday, 26 August, 2020
      ReviewFiction
      Thomas Keneally’s The Dickens Boy — an engrossing and transporting read

      A retelling of the plight of Charles Dickens’s sons in Australia

    • Friday, 21 August, 2020
      Prime property
      Hot property: English country houses

      From a Georgian farmhouse with an orangery in Oxfordshire to a three-storey house near the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

    • Wednesday, 12 August, 2020
      Non-Fiction
      Bunker by Bradley Garrett — a look at the world of preppers

      How fears of disaster have created a multi-billion-dollar doom industry

    • Friday, 10 July, 2020
      Prime property
      Homes for sale now: for celebrating summer

      From a farmhouse in Italy with picturesque gardens to a villa in France that would make a great setting for family reunions

    • Thursday, 2 July, 2020
      Prime property
      What next for Santorini's property market?

      Holiday rental investors hope to save summer season as tourists return

    • Friday, 26 June, 2020
      Prime property
      To buy now: the best homes converted from workplaces

      From a brewery in London to a terracotta factory in Tuscany

    • Tuesday, 2 June, 2020
      Menswear
      Savile Row tailor looks to lend some swagger to WFH

      With suits out of favour for now, Richard James is launching a new athleisure line

    • Friday, 29 May, 2020
      Prime property
      Is now the right time to move to the country?

      Life in packed, polluted and pandemic-ridden cities has pushed many to dream of the rural life

    • Friday, 29 May, 2020
      FTWeekend Live Q&A
      Live Q&A: Everything you wanted to know about moving to the countryside

      Join our live discussion with FT columnist Luke Edward Hall and buying agent Mark Parkinson at 12 noon on Friday May 29

    • Wednesday, 20 May, 2020
      UK property
      How to navigate the post-lockdown property market

      Sellers can market their homes and buyers can view them — but it’s logistically complex

    • Friday, 15 May, 2020
      UK property
      The Covid-19 shutdown could harm first-time buyers for years to come

      Young people will be hardest hit financially by the pandemic, says a new report

    • Friday, 8 May, 2020
      FTWeekend Live Q&A
      What will the UK property market look like after lockdown?

      Join our live discussion with buying agent Henry Pryor on Friday May 8 at 12 and 5pm UK time

    • Friday, 20 March, 2020
      Weekend long reads
      Uncovering London’s hidden property wealth

      New laws are combating money laundering in the capital’s luxury homes market

    • Friday, 13 March, 2020
      UK property taxation
      The problem with the new stamp-duty premium for overseas buyers

      Intended to deter foreign purchasers and bring down prices, it could do the opposite

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