Lucy Alexander

Lucy Alexander is an English television presenter and property expert best known for fronting long-running UK property shows including BBC One’s Homes Under the Hammer and Channel 4’s A Place in the Sun and Bang on Budget. She now combines TV work with property development and live presenting.

Lucy continues to work as a property and lifestyle presenter, including on Channel 4’s A Place in the Sun, which she joined in the early 2020s. She also appears on other factual and consumer programmes and is available as a live event host and speaker, particularly for property and interiors-related events.

Lucy Alexander was born in East Dulwich, London, England. She bought her first property at the age of 18, beginning a long-standing personal involvement in buying, renovating, and selling homes with her husband.

Alexander began her TV career as a children’s presenter, working for Nickelodeon and presenting shows such as Milkshake! and It’s a Knockout in the late 1990s. She later moved into travel and property programming, becoming one of the main presenters on TV Travelshop before joining the BBC. From 2003, Lucy co-presented BBC One’s daytime property auction series Homes Under the Hammer alongside Martin Roberts, becoming closely associated with the show. She left the series in 2016 after more than a decade, although episodes she had filmed continued to air intermittently until 2018, and she has featured in later anniversary and special broadcasts.

Beyond Homes Under the Hammer, Lucy has presented and appeared on programmes including Matron, Medicine and Me: 70 Years of the NHS, Best of Both Worlds, Bang on Budget, Lost and Found, and The Customer Is Always Right. She also undertakes commercial voiceover work and corporate presenting, drawing on her expertise in property, interiors, and lifestyle.

Lucy is married to former professional footballer Stewart Castledine, and together they have bought, renovated, and sold more than a dozen properties. Her family’s experience with her daughter’s diagnosis of transverse myelitis led to her contributing to documentaries exploring disability, rehabilitation, and the NHS.

Lucy lives in Surrey with her husband, daughter Kitty,  an actress who plays Penny Branning in Eastenders & her son Leo, a professional footballer playing for Middlesborough FC.