Senior Content Editor

Christopher Nye

Christopher Nye has been writing about finance and currency for 15 years, following a career in the international hotel and cruise ship industries. He has been a copywriter for Barclays Bank and the NHS, freelance business and property writer, editor of the UK government’s Act on CO2 website and author of several travel and business books.

Your pound and the Seven Brexits

by Christopher Nye | Nov 20, 2018 | Currency Market Updates

If you’re planning to buy a home in the next 12 months, your pounds are balancing on a seesaw right now. Here we run through seven plausible Brexit scenarios and analyse the likely affect on the exchange rate. Don’t think this just applies to the GBP/EUR. Every...

What are the risks of Brexit to property buyers?

by Christopher Nye | Nov 9, 2018 | Currency Market Updates

These are exciting times for anyone looking to move abroad or buy a home abroad. Or indeed, move back to the UK. When it comes to changing your pounds for that big transaction, they’re interesting times indeed! So much is in the air at the moment and that uncertainty...

What will impact the exchange rates in this quarter?

by Christopher Nye | Oct 22, 2018 | Currency Market Updates

We’re almost a month into the new quarter and it’s certainly proving to be an interesting one. With just five months until Brexit, political volatility is dominating the headlines – and, with so many false starts over the last few weeks, what lies ahead is...

Behind the scenes of the currency markets: top 5 influential factors in the exchange rate

by Christopher Nye | Oct 5, 2018 | Currency Exchange Explained

We all know that exchange rates are constantly changing – all you need to do is to look at our live rates if you ever needed confirmation. But for many of us, what it actually is that pulls the markets back and forth isn’t so clear. This week, we’re...

Organising currency for viewing trips

by Christopher Nye | Sep 21, 2018 | Currency Exchange Explained

At what point in the process of buying a home overseas should you be using a specialist in international property payments rather than just changing cash as if for a holiday? As early as possible! There will be significant costs on viewing trips and then the payment...