News about Chris Roberts

We're stuck in Britain's downsizing gridlock: Older homeowners call for Stamp Duty cut

www.dailymail.co.uk, February 27, 2024
Anne Savory (pictured) and her partner Ted Want to sell their three-bedroom bungalow in West Suffolk and move closer to their children. However, the cost of buying houses in these locations is deceptive. For example, a two-bedroom bungalow in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, where one of their children lives, would cost about £450,000, with a stamp duty bill of £10,000.

After 35 years, Mulberry chairman Godfrey Davis is expected to step down

www.dailymail.co.uk, August 23, 2022
Godfrey Davis, 73, (pictured) joined the luxury handbag manufacturer in 1987 as the finance manager before being named as CEO in 2002. He has been Mulberry's chairman for ten years, working with new CEO Andretta since 2015. Davis, according to Andretta, he and the board received "sound advice, direction, and assistance."