Lifestyle
Banda founder to marry princess
Princess Beatrice is engaged to the property developer Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi, her parents have announced...
Notes from the country: It’s oh so quiet – or is it?
Listening is a key part of the country buying agent's job, explains Prime Purchase's Robin Gould...
‘A completely new way of working’: JLL unveils ‘blueprint’ design for national office network
The global agency is looking to overhaul the way its employees work and engage with one another, which means fewer desks, a focus on health & wellbeing, and much more foliage...
How to build the perfect country house (part two): Critical factors
Building a new house is probably one of the most exciting and creative adventures one will ever embark on, but there is no doubt it is daunting. However, help is at hand
How to build the perfect country house (part one): New possibilities
An extraordinary and little-noticed change has swept over the countryside in the past 10 years
‘These houses cost an arm, leg & lung’: Air pollution tool encourages London house-hunters to cut property prices
Londoners are being urged to use air pollution data to drive down house prices and rents; "this is going to be industry standard", says the NAEA's chief
RIBA launches weekly ‘live magazine’ at 66 Portland Place
Held at the Institute's iconic Art Deco HQ each Wednesday evening, The Architects Underground is aimed at 'everyone who has a love of, an interest in or an opinion on architecture and design'
‘Coastal residents may need to systematically retreat’
The Global Commission on Adaptation - led by Ban Ki-Moon, Bill Gates and Kristalina Georgieva - has warned that "coastal residents may need to systematically retreat" as a result of climate change and r…
Spectator competition winners: If Shakespeare had been an estate agent
How would The Bard have sold a house? Would Hemingway, Thoreau or Pinter have been able to stir up interest with syntax alone? Spectator readers rise to the challenge of reimagining sales particulars in…
Ignore liveable cities rankings – they do citizens a disservice by trying to quantify urban life
Ranking different cities against each other according to specific criteria destroys the essence of that city as a whole, argues Oli Mould
Ranked: The world’s ‘most liveable’ cities in 2019
Vienna, Melbourne and Sydney have been named 2019's "most liveable cities" by The Economist's Intelligence Unit, after securing high scores for stability, healthcare, culture & environment, education and…
FT – Millennial movers: how young tech tycoons are shaking up the prime housing market
Buyers flush with tech fortunes are changing the face of high-end property, writes Judith Evans in the Financial Times