A QUIRKY house with a grass roof and stunning views has been named the best holiday home in Scotland. Over the past couple of months judges have been visiting properties across the country as part of the BBC’s Scotland’s Greatest Escape show, fronted by Grado. 5 The Broch took the top spot in the competition 5 … Read more
London-based Harrison Marshall, who runs a small architecture firm called CUIKIN Studio, has become very popular on social media after he started living in a refurbished rental dumpster that technically cost him $62 a month. Why? Marshall couldn’t find an apartment within his budget after returning to London from work in Central America and Southeast … Read more
A country in Europe loved by Brits has seen house prices increase by a staggering amount over the last decade. According to euronews.business, house prices in Turkey have risen by a whopping 1,194 percent in less than 10 years. This figure is far ahead of second on the list, Hungary, whose house prices have risen … Read more
THE mum of Claudia Lawrence has visited her “haunting” empty home as she marks a “nightmare” Mother’s Day. Claudia, 35, disappeared after she finished work at the University of York’s Goodricke College in March 2009. 4 Claudia Lawrence went missing 15 years agoCredit: PA:Press Association 4 Joan, Claudia’s mum says going back to her daughter’s … Read more
Since 2020, the house prices in Canada have skyrocketed. Major Canadian cities, including Vancouver, Barrie and District, Victoria and Toronto, have seen housing costs rise by more than $200,000. In August 2023, the average house price in Vancouver measured at $1,208,400, up by a huge $261,800 since August 2020. In just three years, Barrie and … Read more
FED-up locals say living in an exclusive London neighbourhood inundated with TikTokers is like living in a “zoo”. Residents of Hillgate Village in Notting Hill have become swamped by tourists looking to use their multi-million pound pastel coloured houses as a backdrop for their next social media post. 8 Residents in Hillgate Village in Notting … Read more
A CREEPY former RAF base known as the “UK’s Area 51” has long been rumoured to have “aliens hiding in the tunnels below”. Rudloe Manor in Wiltshire, was revealed as the centre of investigations into UFO sightings in Britain after declassified government files went public in 2010. 4 Rudloe Manor, formally RAF Rudloe Manor has … Read more
RESIDENTS have been left fuming after their neighbour built an entire home on his driveway without permission and got to keep it. Madam Pal Singh was given the green light to build a single-storey garage at his semi in Highgate, Birmingham in 2019. 3 The development surrounded by scaffolding on Vaughton Street in BirminghamCredit: SWNS 3 Mr … Read more
THIS is the Chinese town where all 20,000 residents live under one roof – and you never need to go out. The Regent International apartment building in Qianjiang Century City, Hangzhou’s central business district, is like nothing you’ve ever seen before. 10 The Regent International apartment building – home to 20,000 residentsCredit: nevsedoma 10 Originally … Read more
The Bank of Canada says record levels of immigration are driving up the cost of housing and recent government efforts to cut the number of non-permanent residents and encourage home building will help lower housing costs, but “only gradually.” “In the short term any increase in population, particularly in an environment of constrained supply, is going … Read more
