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 [...]

Psssst! Fancy a sneak preview of the new Apprentice house?
Well, come with us, fellow fans, to Bloomsbury’s Bedford Square, and catch a glimpse of the snazzy Georgian townhouse where next year’s contestants will soon be ensconced:

Suitably impressive exterior, huh?  And here’s a list of what we think are Potentially Fabulous Features (in TV terms):
Outstanding Master Bedroom:
Cue the catfights [...]

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 [...]

I came across a property the other day advertised with “duel aspect windows” (sic).
I was immediately put in mind of the incident when Lord Sash-Windowe famously called out Major P.V.C. Casement for suggesting he’d defenestrated his wife …

Both parties were injured, the local constabulary was called and the case eventually went to court where the [...]

In last week’s Brighton-focused Five to View, I featured a pea-green house as the first property.
Granted, it might be a shade too lurid to suit all tastes, but I think it’s a great example of the many brightly coloured homes that are dotted around Brighton.
Coincidentally, a couple of days later I read a Telegraph article [...]

You should never underestimate the power of a photo when marketing a property.
But sometimes discretion should definitely be the better part of valour and you really, really, really should just upload an ‘awaiting image’ pic, especially when the property you’re promoting looks like this:

or this:

or for sheer bizarro, how about:

Bear? What bear? I can’t see [...]