- Phil Spencer
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name = Phil Spencer
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birth_date = Birth date and age|1969|10|11|df=y
birth_place =United Kingdom
age = 38
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occupation =TV Presenter /Businessman /Journalist
gender =Males
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family =
spouse = Fiona Spencer
children = Jake, Ben
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ethnic = White
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credits = Co-Presenter of Channel 4's "Location, Location, Location"Co-presenter of Channel 4's "Relocation, Relocation"
Columnist for
The Sunday Times Chief executive of Garrington Home Finders
Phil Spencer (born
11 December 1969 ) is a Britishtelevision presenter who appears withKirstie Allsopp in a variety of home-buying programs onChannel 4 including "Location, Location, Location " and "Relocation, Relocation". [ [http://www.channel4.com/4homes/ontv/presenters/phil_spencer.html Phil Spencer's biography on Channel4.com] ] Spencer also writes for several UK publications, including "GQ ", "The Sunday Times " and "Lusso Magazine ". [ [http://www.garrington.co.uk/about/press/ Garrington - Garrington Home Finders - Press & Editorial ] ]Career
Spencer is the chief executive of Garrington Home Finders, [ [http://www.garrington.co.uk/about/uk/headoffice/phil_spencer/ About page] , Garrington Home Finders] a property search agency he established in 1996 to help buyers with property search, negotiation and purchase process. It was his promotion of Garrington and the concept of using a
buying agent to find a home that led Spencer to become the co-host of "Location, Location, Location" and "Relocation, Relocation".Fact|date=July 2008Criticism
"Location, Location, Location" has been fiercely criticised by many for ramping property prices, most recently by the BBC's "Panorama" (
2 June ,2008 ) which identified the show as one of the property programmes that contributed to a property bubble.Fact|date=July 2008 After an article in the "Sunday Telegraph " (13 April ,2008 ) where Spencer suggested that the falls in property prices at the beginning of 2008 should not be viewed as the cracking of a bubble and that property was still a good long term investment, Spencer was roundly criticised by readers, who called him a "confidence trickster". [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1583291/It's-not-just-the-housing-market-that's-overheated.html "It's not just the housing market that's overheated"] , Sunday Telegraph, April 18, 2008]Personal life
Spencer grew up in
Littlebourne ,Kent and now lives in the Tonsleys area ofWandsworth . Spencer and his wife, Fiona, have two sons, Jake and Ben.Spencer is a celebrity sponsor of the 2008 SOS Children's Villages UK's World Orphan Week. [ [http://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/charity-news/2007-10-17.htm 'wear something WOW' for World Orphan Week ] ] and [http://broadway.jamkit.com/Home Broadway] , a
London homelessness charity.References
External links
* [http://www.garrington.co.uk/index.php Garrington Home Finders]
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