Julia Hatmaker
Julia Hatmaker distinguishes herself through deep expertise in sustainable real estate development across Northern England, with particular focus on public sector projects and senior living facilities.
As deputy editor at Place North West since 2021, Hatmaker covers the property market across Northern England with a distinctive emphasis on sustainability initiatives and public sector real estate decisions. Her reporting consistently connects environmental considerations with economic development, particularly in Greater Manchester's sustainability policy framework.
Sustainability-focused development coverage
Hatmaker regularly reports on green building practices including Passivhaus standards, having covered Seddon's delivery of 177 Passivhaus-designed residences to a city council. She examines how developers implement Greater Manchester's sustainability policy, bringing together guidance authors, the combined authority, and developers like Harworth to explore practical implementation challenges. Her reporting on VINCI's Liverpool Pall Mall project demonstrates her attention to major commercial developments with sustainability components.
Public sector property expertise
Hatmaker has developed specialized knowledge in public sector real estate decisions, covering Westmorland and Furness Council's closure of County Hall office and staff relocation to refurbished facilities. She reports on government building projects including Willmott Dixon's £14m Cheshire Constabulary base replacing a RAAC and asbestos-impacted police station. Her coverage extends to pharmaceutical company facility expansions representing significant UK investment.
Senior living and investment market analysis
Hatmaker chairs industry discussions on senior living developments and has produced event coverage with photo summaries on this specialized housing sector. She analyzes the UK residential investor market, publishing insights from Handelsbanken's Property Investor Report including commentary from Phil Basten on investment trends. Her reporting at major industry events like MIPIM and UKREiiF demonstrates engagement with property investment professionals.
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Aasma Day
Aasma Day tells the story of money through the lives of ordinary people, showing how housing costs, pensions, benefits and everyday bills shape households’ fortunes. She is Money People Reporter at The i Paper, drawing on more than two decades in journalism and a deep background in investigative and regional reporting. Her beat is money people and household finances, with a focus on personal finance, housing pressures, property charges and real estate traps. She reports on state and private pensions, changes to benefits and allowances, and complex service charge regimes, using clear sums, named benefits and direct testimony. Her pieces are reported features built around individual cases, with plain, direct tone, detailed interviews and close scrutiny of the rules and institutions involved. Her earlier work at the Lancashire Evening Post earned a Specialist Writer of the Year award.
Aditi Ganguly
Aditi Ganguly is a financial writer who shows how market windfalls and headline-making companies turn into real-world spending, investing, and property decisions. She writes for Yahoo Finance and personal finance outlets that syndicate there. Her beat is sudden wealth, retail investors, and the shift from paper gains into luxury real estate and other big-ticket assets, with detailed reporting on newly minted millionaires from events like the SpaceX IPO. She compares familiar stocks so small investors can choose between names like Gap and American Eagle or Facebook and Pinterest, and tracks frontier themes from artificial intelligence to cryptocurrency through their impact on portfolios. She explains surges in gold, shifts in consumer spending, and policy or credit moves in plain language, using specific stories, earnings, and advisor input to link big economic and market stories to concrete decisions about building long-term wealth.
Adrian Darbyshire
Adrian Darbyshire is a senior reporter whose work is driven by official documents, archives and on-the-ground detail, giving his stories a factual, report-led tone rooted in the character of specific places. He is a senior reporter at Isle of Man Today, covering how property, heritage and public decisions shape where people live and work. He links real estate stories with politics, history and environmental pressures, reporting closely on government reviews, parliamentary scrutiny, legislative proposals and ministerial conduct. He writes about historic structures, abandoned and threatened infrastructure, major property moves and residential sales, treating buildings as part of a continuing story about place. He also reports on environment, wildlife and land-use, focusing on how planning and infrastructure decisions affect heritage and ecology. He has worked in local journalism for more than two decades, with bylines spanning politics, health, environment, heritage and property.
Alexandra Goss
Alexandra Goss is an award-winning freelance property journalist who treats housing as both an asset class and the backdrop to people’s lives, using detailed case studies to show how money, family and lifestyle decisions meet. She writes regular features on buying, selling and living in homes for The Telegraph, and covers prime and super-prime real estate and its culture for outlets including the Financial Times, Spear’s and PrimeResi. A former deputy editor of The Sunday Times Home section, she reports on the UK housing market’s human impact, from divorce, later-life moves and intergenerational ties to the effects of mortgage rates, stamp duty, school fees and auctions. Her work blends narrative reporting, interviews and practical guides, giving readers clear context, concrete tips and insight into both mainstream and high-end property.