About Us
Since 2010, Holiday Home Times has been the publication of record for people who buy, own, rent, and invest in property beyond their primary residence — across more than sixty destinations worldwide.
Holiday Home Times grew out of a syndicated weekly column written by founder Roshan L. Dsilva for the Property Times — a guide for buyers navigating second home and investment property markets across Asia and the Gulf. Readers began writing in with questions that were too detailed and too consequential for a weekly newspaper slot to answer properly.
In 2010, Roshan launched Holiday Home Times as a dedicated publication: editorially independent, free of developer and agency sponsorship, and focused exclusively on the interests of the buyer. That commitment has not changed.
We publish independent editorial on second home buying, holiday rental strategy, property investment, citizenship and residency by investment, and international tax planning. Our journalists are specialists, not generalists — each covering a single beat across a global patch, from the same desk, over years.
We also run curated property showcases and live webinars — giving buyers the direct access to markets, developers, and local expertise that no amount of reading can fully replace.
Independence & Standards
Holiday Home Times is editorially independent. We accept no payment for editorial coverage, no developer-funded advertorial, and no affiliate fees from the properties, funds, or programmes we write about. Our editorial standards, conflict-of-interest policy, and correction process are published in full in our Trust Centre.
British · London, UK
Julian Ashworth has spent more than two decades writing about property, travel and the art of finding a life worth living beyond your primary address.
julian@holidayhometimes.comIrish · Lisbon, Portugal
Sophie covers citizenship-by-investment programmes, residency visas and the legal frameworks that govern how high-net-worth individuals build a life across borders. Based in Lisbon since the launch of Portugal's Golden Visa, she has tracked its evolution closely and has reported on programmes across Malta, Greece, UAE and the Caribbean.
sophie@holidayhometimes.comArgentine · Barcelona, Spain
Valentina writes about property markets across southern Europe and Latin America, with a particular focus on Spain, Italy, Greece and Brazil. She has a background in architecture and urban planning, and her reporting often explores the relationship between built form, planning law and investment value.
valentina@holidayhometimes.comBritish · Geneva, Switzerland
Marcus specialises in the tax and legal structures that sit beneath cross-border property ownership - from offshore holding companies and treaty networks to inheritance planning and currency exposure. He previously worked in private client advisory at a Big Four firm and brings a practitioner's eye to complex ownership structures.
marcus@holidayhometimes.comBritish-Indian · Dubai, UAE
Nadia covers property investment strategy, buying processes and market intelligence across the Gulf, South Asia and East Africa. She has a background in financial analysis and spent five years covering emerging-market real estate for a specialist research house before joining Holiday Home Times.
nadia@holidayhometimes.comIndian-Portuguese · Goa, India
Priya writes about the lifestyle dimension of second-home ownership - the communities, the culture, the schools, the restaurants and the invisible infrastructure that makes a place feel like home. Her base in Goa gives her an insider view on one of Asia's most dynamic second-home markets.
priya@holidayhometimes.comGerman-Swiss · Zurich, Switzerland
Cleo covers ski resort markets, Alpine property and second-home markets across Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Scandinavia. She grew up between Munich and the Bernese Oberland and has a long-running interest in how seasonal markets respond to climate change and shifting travel patterns.
cleo@holidayhometimes.comSerbian · Podgorica, Montenegro
Aleksandra Djordic is the publication's specialist for the Adriatic coast and the western Balkans, a region she has tracked closely since Montenegro's first wave of luxury marina development in the early 2010s. Born in Belgrade and educated at the University of Arts in Belgrade before completing a journalism degree at City, University of London, she has spent the better part of a decade based between Tivat and Podgorica.
aleksandra@holidayhometimes.comAnd 14 more correspondents across five continents — read the full masthead.
Indian · North America
Roshan is the founder and publisher of Holiday Home Times. He was raised in Qatar, went to university in Mumbai, and has lived and worked in Singapore, Bangalore, Dubai, the United States and Canada. A property investor himself, he launched HHT in 2010 with a syndicated column in the Property Times — a weekly guide for buyers navigating second home and investment property markets across Asia and the Gulf. He handles all commercial responsibilities at Holiday Home Times and remains its driving editorial voice on investment strategy.
roshan@holidayhometimes.comFor editorial enquiries contact research@holidayhometimes.com. For advertising and partnership opportunities contact advertising@holidayhometimes.com. Our editorial independence policy is set out in our Trust Centre. Find us at our global offices.