'Location location location' formula helps Michael Fish 'reign' for 30 years

Distinguished weather forecaster Michael Fish has revealed how the property mantra “Location, Location, Location” helped him avoid a storm in the property market when choosing his first home.

He drew concentric circles around FOURTEEN different Met Office weather centres in the UK – and then bought a house where the lines intersected.

His strict mathematical approach automatically narrowed down the long list of possible locations to just one small area.

Interviewed on Overseas Property TV Michael said that the resulting home, in Richmond, Surrey, was ideally located, no matter to where he was posted during his long career.

Speaking to interviewer John Daly on the channel’s Snap programme, Michael said: “As a trained meteorologist, I was employed by the civil service and could have been sent to work anywhere in the country.

“However, I didn’t want to move with each new posting, so finding a home located equi-distant from each office was the ideal solution.”

So successful has his approach been that Michael and his family have moved only once in the last 30 years – to a house just a few yards away from that first home.

Michael, famous for dismissing rumours of a hurricane just hours before the UK was devastated by the worst gales for a century, was the latest celebrity guest to appear on Snap, broadcast on satellite channel 287.

It asks contestants to guess the value of their first home – and then discover what overseas properties could be bought for the same price today.

The programme will be aired later this month.