Roger Hunt

Journalist, Judge and Period Property Specialist

Roger Hunt is an award winning writer with a particular interest in both sustainable and vernacular architecture and the materials and techniques used in construction.

His work appears in a variety of magazines including Period Living, Homebuilding & Renovating and Real Homes. He is the co-author of Old House Handbook - published by Frances Lincoln in association with the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) - and author of a number of other books. He is currently writing a follow up to Old House Handbook which will look at retrofitting buildings to make them more sustainable.

He was named B2B Property Journalist of the Year at the Headline Property Awards 2008; was highly commended in the Sustainable/Environmental Property Journalist of the Year category of the LSL Property Press Awards 2011; and was runner up as Best Newcomer in the primelocation.com Blog Awards 2010.

Roger is a judge of the What House? Awards for new housing and is on the editorial board of Cornerstone, the magazine of SPAB. His latest renovation project is Tashmoo, a 1900 house which is available for holiday rental in the summer, on Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts, USA.

Roger Tweets @huntwriter and regularly blogs at www.huntwriter.com  You can speak to Roger in The Advice Centre at the show, or listen to him talk in the Real Homes Live! Theatre.