Waterfront
Contemporary Cornish beach house in a ‘sublime’ position offered for £3.85m
An award-winning modern house on the south Cornwall coast has come up for sale, sporting some "fantastic" eco-credentials and a "sublime" position right on the beach.
Plans go in for a 1,500-home riverside scheme in Greenwich
In Pictures: Morden Wharf is U+I's latest massive regeneration project in London, promising to transform a 19 acre former sugar factory site into "a distinctive, green, mixed-use neighbourhood".
Sean Connery’s former Riviera mansion offered for €30m
A magnificent Belle Epoque villa has come up for sale in the South of France, sporting a €30 million (c.£26.65m) asking price and some serious A-List credentials.
Charles Dickens’ clifftop retreat offered for sale as a restoration project
Bleak House, overlooking Viking Bay in Kent, is being pitched as "the perfect canvas for an ambitious renovation project".
Google owner ditches plans for pioneering ‘smart city’
Sidewalk Labs has abandoned its grand plan to create a 12-acre "smart city" on Toronto's waterfront.
Flood risks ‘yet to hit house price growth’
Property prices in many of the UK's most flood-prone locations have increased faster than their surrounding local area over the last ten years...
American billionaire continues ultra-prime buying spree, bagging a fashion designer’s Hamptons compound
Ken Griffin has reportedly bought Calvin Klein's seven-acre Atlantic-front compound in the Hamptons.
In Pictures: Boutique seaside scheme becomes Britain’s first ‘Passivhaus Plus’ multi-unit development
Seaton Beach on Devon's Jurassic Coast is the first multi-unit development in the UK to be certified as “Passivhaus Plus". T
How England’s broken planning system has created (not reduced) the risk of floods
"Urban areas have been creating flood risk," writes Lee Bosher. "And this is largely due to the government’s focus on making land – low cost, flood prone land – available for development."
Hong Kong’s prime Kai Tak development plot goes for HK$15.95bn
A consortium of property developers has acquired the most valuable slice of residential development land on Hong Kong's former airport, for significantly less than the adjacent plot
Developers wanted for key waterfront sites in Liverpool
CBRE is marketing Kings Dock on the Mersey as seven prime development sites totalling 7.6 acres
Acorn acquires 75-home development site in the Cotswold Water Park
40-acre site has plans in place for 75 new homes and two new private lakes