- Evening Standard•6 hours ago
Best small fans to beat the heat
We all have our on-the-go warmer weather essentials – sunglasses, sun cream, plasters for inevitable sandal rub – but unless you’re also carrying a portable fan, you’re seriously missing out.
- The Independent•7 hours ago
Grenfell Tower borough built fewer affordable homes than any other London council, new figures reveal
The Conservative council responsible for Grenfell Tower has built fewer affordable homes than any other London borough in recent years, new analysis has revealed. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea has started work on just 244 genuinely affordable homes since 2014 – an average of 61 each year
- homify•12 hours ago
The homify guide for choosing minimalist furniture
There’s more to the minimalist design than meets the eye. You might look at a minimalist living room and think ‘stark’, yet a minimalist will see ‘simple’. Where you may see ‘cold’, minimalists will see ‘sleek’. And if you deem a minimalist bedroom ‘boring’, a minimalist might interpret it as ‘sexy’.
- Business Insider UK•16 hours ago
Hong Kong is so expensive that a single parking space just broke a property record
This appears to be the most rent ever paid for a Hong Kong parking space, costing more than some of the city's smallest apartments. Hong Kong continues to break records for its high cost of living. Hong Kong real estate is among the priciest in the world, with record-breaking apartments being sold
- Evening Standard•yesterday
Best travel alarm clocks
We’ve all experienced a time when we’ve set an alarm on our phones, only for it to inexplicably not go off.
- Evening Standard•yesterday
Best washer dryer 2018
Washer/dryers have something of a bad reputation – people just don’t believe that they’re very good at either. In recent years, the efficiency of these machines has improved dramatically, with improved running speeds, times and economies, meaning you really can achieve clean, dry clothes from the same
- Evening Standard•yesterday
Best family camping tents
Whether you opt for a luxury tunnel tent, a lightweight backpacking model or something a little more out of the ordinary, your choice of tent will shape your family’s experiences of the great outdoors, probably for years to come.
- Evening Standard•yesterday
Jeremy Corbyn promises to build a million 'genuinely affordable' homes
Jeremy Corbyn today pledged to build one million “genuinely affordable” homes over 10 years to tackle the housing crisis if Labour comes to power. The majority of new homes proposed by the Labour leader would be for social rent, delivered by local councils and overseen by a new government department
- The Independent•yesterday
Housing crisis can't be solved by tinkering with planning laws – build more social housing instead
The government must now step in and take the lead on housing policy and socially-focused capital investment, to provide the homes that people so desperately need. For these reasons, housing is too important to be led by the private market. When the purpose of housing is to provide a profit for shareholders
- Evening Standard•yesterday
Revealed: The London hot-spots with the most 'cut price tag' homes in UK
Twickenham is London’s “price-cut hotspot” with more homes on the market carrying a “reduced” tag than anywhere else in Britain. Almost 42 per cent of the properties for sale in the south-west London commuter haven have already had their asking prices slashed, according to data from property website
- Evening Standard•yesterday
Best massage tools
From neck ache to trapped nerves and sleepless nights, sore muscles can be the cause of some debilitating health problems. The sad truth is, though, as much as we would like to, not many of us have the time or budget for weekly massages. When one area is out of whack, it can have an impact on the rest
- Country Living•yesterday
Buy this entire 19th century chateau for £800,000
Complete with most of its furnishings, including country antiques.
- The Guardian•2 days ago
Britain’s housing market is broken. Here’s how Labour will fix it
The housing market is broken, and, after eight long years it is clear that current Conservative housing policy is failing to fix it. To make housing more affordable, we need to build more affordable homes, and to hardwire housing affordability through the system, from planning to funding to delivery
- Sky News•2 days ago
Rogue landlords 'should have houses confiscated'
Rogue landlords who exploit vulnerable tenants should face having their properties confiscated, an influential committee of MPs has recommended. The most vulnerable tenants need greater legal protections from retaliatory evictions, rent increases and harassment so they can pursue complaints about repairs
- HuffPost UK•2 days ago
Rogue Landlords Should Face Tougher Penalties, Say MPs
Tenants threatened with eviction and rent rises for complaining about the
- The Guardian•2 days ago
Labour would rip up definition of affordable housing, Corbyn says
A Labour government would rip up the government’s definition of affordable housing and instead bring in a measure linked to people’s incomes, Jeremy Corbyn will say on Thursday. The Labour leader and John Healey, the shadow housing secretary, set out the party’s plans to link affordability to people
- HuffPost UK•2 days ago
Tenants' Tsar Needed To Protect Renters' Rights Post-Grenfell, Says Labour
A tenants' tsar and extending Freedom Of Information law to cover housing
- HuffPost UK•2 days ago
Labour To Redefine 'Affordable Housing' To Help The 'Just Coping' Class
Labour will redefine 'affordable housing' to help more people on middle
- Business Insider UK•2 days ago
Condemned Northern California house sells for $1.23 million
A condemned Northern California house with holes in the roof and mildew in the pipes sold last month for $1.23 million, a price tag that highlights how a housing shortage is fueling skyrocketing home prices in the San Francisco Bay Area. Listing agent Larry Gallegos said Wednesday he received three
- The Independent•2 days ago
Mortgage freedom: Why you’re wasting £4,500
Despite coming three days earlier than last year on 16th April, there’s inevitably a massive North South divide, with a gap of two months between when homeowners in Northern Ireland ‘celebrate’ on 10 March compared to those in England on 9th May. The research highlighted another divide across the regions
- The Independent•2 days ago
Councils should be able to confiscate homes from criminal landlords, MPs say
Councils should be given powers to confiscate homes from criminal landlords who are forcing people to live in freezing, dangerous and damp-filled properties, a parliamentary committee has said. MPs said vulnerable tenants also needed better protection to address the “imbalance in power” as renters were
