Ruth Bloomfield

Ruth Bloomfield | Property writer

Ruth Bloomfield has been a journalist for more than 30 years, and has specialised in property, housing, and architecture for more than ten years. She's been named Property journalist of the year at the Property Press Awards, and has picked up ten individual awards too.

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28/03/25.  Metro Home - How we are DIYing ourselves up the property ladder.  Picture shows Stuart Allen & his wife Rebecca Wilde-Allen photographed with their pet Cavapoo Reggie, 7 at their DIY house in Stamford Brook, West London.  Credit : Daniel Lynch 07941 594 556 www.lynchpix.co.uk

We added almost £1,000,000 to the value of our home — but we'd never do it again

Channel: Property Property April 14, 2025
The London Barbican Residential Building Complex  in The City of London

London’s ‘ugliest’ brutalist estates where flats cost £1,000,000

Channel: Property Property March 2, 2025
The London Barbican Residential Building Complex  in The City of London

London’s ‘ugliest’ tall buildings where flats can cost £1million

Channel: Property Property March 2, 2025

This south east London estate is the buzzing next neighbourbood to be

Channel: Property Property September 5, 2023
Money under floorboards

Mortgage on the up? Here's how your home can make you money

Channel: Money Money August 1, 2023
View across city of London from Muswell Hill

London areas to consider buying a home in if you're priced out of your borough

Channel: Property Property January 31, 2023
01/12/22  Metro Home : No Outside Space? No Problem.  Picture shows Jim Hurlin's apartment in Spitalfields, East London which has a wraparound living feature wall.  Picture shows Owner Jim Hurlin with his friend's whipped Olly, 3 (he is dog-sitting).  Credit: Daniel Lynch 07941 594 556 www.lynchpix.co.uk

How one homeowner brought the outdoors inside with a green wall featuring 1,200 plants

Channel: Property Property January 24, 2023
T2BAWK Period buildings, Hornchurch High Street, Hornchurch, London Borough of Havering, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Move over Hoxton: Where to buy a house in 2023... if you're a Millennial

Channel: Property Property January 10, 2023

The fresh mortgage deals on offer that could help buyers afford a new home

Channel: Property Property November 15, 2022

Energy efficiency is now top of house hunters' wish lists - here's where to buy

Channel: Property Property November 8, 2022

Carbon negative houses: Inside the homes that could save the world

Channel: Property Property July 19, 2022
Adele Parks

Novelist Adele Parks manifested the dream home she drew on a napkin

Channel: Property Property June 28, 2022

Forget Borough, these up and coming London markets will bag house-hunters a bargain

Channel: Property Property April 5, 2022
18/01/22 Metro Home : Auction House. Alex & Hortense Woodleigh Smith photographed at their auction home in Clapham, South-West London. Credit: Daniel Lynch 07941 594 556. www.lynchpix.co.uk

How these three people used buying at auction to create million pound homes

Channel: Property Property March 29, 2022
Regenerated areas of London

Major regeneration projects planned for five different parts of London

Channel: UK UK March 22, 2022

Meet the women breaking the glass ceiling in the property industry

Channel: Property Property March 8, 2022