Anthony Cappaert

2 months ago | thetimes.com | Oliver Wright |Dan Atherton |Anthony Cappaert |Darren Burchett

Jan 15, 2025 | thetimes.com | Venetia Menzies |Laerke Christensen |Cecilia Tombesi |Anthony Cappaert

Oct 21, 2024 | thetimes.com | Michael Keith |Tom Calver |Ryan Watts |Anthony Cappaert

Forecasting house prices is something of a national obsession — just not one that the British are very good at. When mortgage interest rates soared in autumn 2022, some economists on the doom-mongering side predicted house price Armageddon, while others were calmer. In recent months, mortgage rates have fallen (a host of lenders are now offering loans with rates below 4 per cent) and the market is looking more buoyant than it has at any point since the Liz Truss mini-budget of September 2022.

Oct 19, 2024 | thetimes.com | Oliver Shah |Anthony Cappaert

Dame Sharon White has a new job. In January, the former civil servant and Ofcom boss will succeed Lord O’Donnell to become chairwoman of the consultancy Frontier Economics. Like the John Lewis Partnership, Frontier is owned by its staff, although White will be hoping for a smoother ride than she experienced in her four-and-a-half years chairing the retail mutual, where she faced internal dissent over cost-cutting and an aborted plan to bring in an outside investor.

Oct 6, 2024 | thetimes.com | Venetia Menzies |Laerke Christensen |Cecilia Tombesi |Anthony Cappaert

A little over a year ago, Ahmed al-Mughni proposed to the love of his life. They planned to marry surrounded by friends and family and dance until the small hours. Last month they got married in a plastic tent, one of many within a sprawling camp housing millions of displaced Gazans. Their surviving friends and family tried their best to celebrate the couple, but the atmosphere was far from happy. “I used to work as an accountant for a company specialising in electronic appliances.