No, it’s not a regular blog posting (yet), but to be quite honest, with the amount of dubious data out there it easily could be.
The questionable claim that has caught my eye on this occasion comes courtesy of a survey into the saving habits of first-time buyers.
Finance site Fairinvestment.co.uk surveyed around 2,500 individuals and found [...]

It seems like Halloween may have come early given the ghostly goings-on at one Nottinghamshire mansion.
Now I doubt I’ll be saying this too often, but surely you’ve got to pity the poor millionaire who bought the 52-room pile (for a cool £3.6 million) in the belief he’d be breaking a sweat in the exclusive gym, [...]

Here’s possibly the coolest thing I’ve seen all day. Some deck builder (that’s skateboards not verandas) over in Canada has specced out his board-building school with a very special staircase
As eager students hurry towards the basement to learn the ancient craft of skateboard construction, their scuffed up Supras and dirty Vans will have to navigate [...]

Here’s a great way to get yourself a free house. Pose as an artist, say you want to create a gallery/meeting space that’s environmentally sound and get your local community to donate all their scrap wood and raw materials that would otherwise end up lying in a skip somewhere.
Now that’s not entirely what German designers [...]

Okay, I absolutely promise that this is my last blog on Kevin McCloud for the rest of the year month week.
But as reported here, Kev’s company Hab (Happiness architecture beauty – and yes the lowercase acronym is intentional) got a bit of bad press over their decision to part ways with architects Wright and Wright.
In [...]

One I made earlier? Not quite … still
Lily Allen, the prolific blogger and occasional popstar who always sometimes gives the impression she simply must tell the world about every thought as it enters her head, has created a small yet important ripple in the world of architecture.
Why? She simply let slip, in typical brazen-as-you-like style, [...]

This blogging malarkey appears to have triggered an unexpected impulse within my synaptic gap, namely the constant need to reference the deity of property putdowns that is Kevin McCloud.
“I’m not obsessed!” I wailed at my boss on presentation of this latest subject.
“You have a picture of him on your computer,” he replied, in an annoyingly [...]

Route 1 West in the real Anniesland-
not a pair of mouse ears in sight
Not content with sharing my name with an ingenious piece of eco design, I have just discovered, via a plug by Redrow for their Route 1 West  development, that there exists in Glasgow a district proudly bearing my moniker.
Anniesland - originally the [...]

Shoreham Harbour
Last year (October 2007), I heard a rumour that a super-size me development could be sprouting forth from Shoreham Harbour.
This was hardly news to me, a coastal dweller whose daily commute requires travelling past the Harbour along the narrow and congested strip (the A259) between Shoreham and Brighton.
Back in 2003 the kibosh was put [...]

Acoustic cloaking? Sonic crystals? Have I unwittingly staggered across some new age musical therapy? The kind that involves mantras and chakras, auras and a heavy dose of unreserved middle class self-indulgence?
Actually no, these techie terms bear no reference to spiritually inspired incantations per se, but they could one day protect your home – and your [...]