News reaches us today that Kevin McCloud’s development company HAB (Happiness Architecture Beauty) has been granted planning permission for a 42-unit housing scheme in Swindon.
The Triangle, as it’s called, will be developed in partnership with housing group GreenSquare and should be completed by the end of 2010.
What kind of steel and glass eco-friendly extravaganza will [...]

Think you’re having a bad day? Well, spare a thought for Hollywood heavyweight Nicolas Cage who, we hear, is being forced by the nasty old IRS to sell off his property portfolio.
And what a portfolio it is – a private island in the Bahamas, a Bavarian schloss, an estate on Rhode Island, homes in Las [...]

Are you a security obsessed real ale drinker who just wants to be left alone to brew beer in the middle of the sea?
Maybe you’re a patch-eyed, cat stroking genius who’s in the market for a discrete bomb-proof bolt hole? (This place used to have anti-aircraft guns mounted on the roof so a giant molecule-melting [...]

This week’s graph comes from our latest House Prices & Affordability Index.
It shows that the two-tier market continues - prices on the rise for home movers (values are up seven per cent year-on-year) but falling for first-time buyers (down 4.1 per cent on last year).
Why the difference?
Those at the upper end of the market have [...]

We’ve just launched a new feature on the site which we think you’ll really like. It’s called My Places, and this is how it works.
What?
My Places allows you to check how many miles a property listed on the site is from up to 5 places that are important to you, such as your [...]

Back in 1997 popular beat combo The Verve wrote themselves into rock history with their acclaimed third album, Urban Hymns.
It’s probably best know for the anthemic “Bitter Sweet Symphony” and the equally cheery “The Drugs Don’t Work” but Richard Ashcroft was obviously in a happier mood when he wrote “Lucky Man”, the third single …maybe [...]

We like a nice homely shed here at Winging It, but we’re also partial to a bit of upmarket architectural eye-candy, so imagine our delight when we discovered that some genius has created a super cool, Kevin McCloud approved … shed for living!
We haven’t been this thrilled by a design ’solution’ since eglu applied a bit [...]

The Property: The Old Girls School
The Place: Butterwick, Boston, Lincolnshire
The Price: £199,950 (Guide)

The Pain: This is Grade II listed and quite old (c.1859), and as a consequence you’ll have to tread carefully with your conversion plans. Any building this old has the potential to throw up costly surprises.
The Gain: It’s a charming old Victorian structure [...]

The last we heard from Jamie Oliver on the property front he was dishing out £3.25 million to buy his neighbour’s house in celeb hotspot Primrose Hill. The plan, apparently, was to knock the two into one vast 19-bedroom mega mansion.
When he’s not there Oliver, presumably, is out at his country estate pottering around like [...]

What do you do when your building plot includes an enormous horse chestnut tree that you’re not allowed to cut down?
Grand Designs devotees will remember that architect Peter Romaniuk and his clients David and Anjana Devoy solved this problem by creating a beautiful curved house that traces the perimeter of the site and extends an [...]