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 D'Silva 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 investment tours, 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 · Lisbon, Portugal
Julian read English at Oxford and spent two decades as a foreign correspondent for The Times and the Financial Times, reporting from more than sixty countries. He joined Holiday Home Times in 2024 as Editor-in-Chief, overseeing all editorial commissioning and leading the team's global coverage.
julian@holidayhometimes.comIrish · Barcelona, Spain
Sophie studied architecture at University College Dublin before moving into property journalism at The Irish Times. She brings a trained eye to planning permissions, construction timelines, and building standards across jurisdictions.
sophie@holidayhometimes.comMexican · Porto, Portugal
Born in Guadalajara and trained in fashion journalism in Mexico City, Valentina spent years in Milan and São Paulo before relocating to Porto. She writes about the intangible things that make a second home feel like a real one.
valentina@holidayhometimes.comAustralian · Mallorca, Spain
Marcus holds a marketing degree from the University of Melbourne and spent his mid-twenties building and then selling a short-term rental management company in Sydney. He covers yield analysis, platform strategy, and the honest economics of holiday home ownership.
marcus@holidayhometimes.comBritish · London, United Kingdom
After a decade in Goldman Sachs's structured finance team, Nadia left to write about alternative assets and private wealth strategies. At HHT she covers the investment case for cross-border property, purchase structures, and legal due diligence.
nadia@holidayhometimes.comIndian · Cascais, Portugal
A law graduate of NALSAR University of Law, Priya practised corporate immigration law in Mumbai before transitioning to journalism. HHT's most-cited writer, she is especially widely read in Southeast Asian and Gulf expat communities.
priya@holidayhometimes.comGerman-British · Nomadic
Half-German, half-British, Cleo has spent the past five years travelling across more than forty countries. Her Destinations column is consistently HHT's most-read section. She writes about places as they actually are, not as the tourism board would prefer.
cleo@holidayhometimes.comIndian · Global
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.