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Watch: Singapore floats extraordinary ‘island playground’, designed by WilkinsonEyre & Grant Associates
Singapore developer Sentosa Development Corporation has revealed a remarkable proposal to transform a couple of neighbouring islands into a vast "island playground in a global city", offering a realm…
To sell luxury, should it still be called luxury?
While the luxury sector is experiencing unprecedented worldwide success, it is also facing an existential crisis, as Professors Jean-Noël Kapferer and Anne Michaut explain...
In Pictures: The grand opening of Finchatton’s Twenty Grosvenor Square
Finchatton officially opened its flagship super-prime development, Twenty Grosvenor Square, last night, throwing a celebrity-infused party that included a performance by pop star Paloma Faith.
New UCL project aims to profile every building in London
"Colouring London" is a new citizen science platform that collects, collates, visualises and allows people to download statistical data about every building in London
The Lady launches training school for household staff
Venerable women's glossy diversifies into training and recruitment at 'Norfolk’s answer to Downton Abbey'
Award-winning Welsh vineyard seeks £15m
The open market sale of Ancre Hill Estates is 'unusual to say the least', says Savills
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