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UK prime property

  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
    Hot property: British homes for less than £1mn

    From a cosy ecolodge in Scottish islands to a bijou castle in North Devon

    Stone and turf-roofed cottage nestled into a grassy hillside, with curved glass windows facing open moorland
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    The £400mn blossoming of Bloomsbury

    Hovering on the edge of prime central London, the bohemian enclave’s quiet charm and proximity to Soho and Covent Garden is being reinvigorated by local campaigns and new investment

    Modern glass-fronted building beside traditional brick flats, with people and hire bikes on a sunny street
  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Prime property
    Americans want to move to Europe — but just how easy is it?

    ‘Fires, guns and Trump’ are among the catalysts spurring US citizens to consider a move across the pond. Inquiries, applications and house buying are accelerating — but the shifting sands of red tape mean the relocation follow-through is a slower trickle  

    Three keys on a ring with a US flag keychain lie over passport-style stamps from London, Barcelona, and Lisbon on a patterned background
  • Tuesday, 22 April, 2025
    Can Bayswater level up with the rest of prime central London?

    The first stages of the £3bn redevelopment of Queensway are bedding in. More change is on the way. But there’s still some distance to go to shake off the “cheap side of the park” jibes

    Curved living room with open glass doors leading to a terrace, featuring outdoor seating and panoramic views over a green city park and distant skyline
  • Monday, 14 April, 2025
    Hot property: five escapes in East Sussex

    From a contemporary Siberian larch-clad house beside Camber Sands to a 16th-century country retreat a hop, skip and a jump from Glyndebourne Opera House

    Large red-brick country house with tall windows and ivy on the walls, set in a manicured garden with trimmed hedges, flowers and outdoor seating
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    Hot property: five thatched homes for sale

    From a Wiltshire farmhouse dating to the 15th century to a cosy cottage on Cornwall’s scenic Lizard Peninsula

    Brick cottage with a steep thatched roof, tall chimneys, leaded windows, and a garden filled with trimmed hedges, flowering plants, and a patio umbrella
  • Saturday, 5 April, 2025
    FT Series
    House & Home Country Living Special

    To kick off, we’re asking if rewilding can pay — and how new planning legislation will affect the rural dream. Then it’s escape to the Dordogne for properties on the market — and to California for gardening with purpose. Architectural inspiration can be gleaned from a quasi-lunar lander in Suffolk, interiors ideas from Highgrove and pastoral hosting from Ireland’s Lismore Castle

  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Why is top-tier renting on the rise in London?   

    Despite paying upwards of £5,000 per week, many of the capital’s most affluent residents are choosing not to buy, but to rent

    A large white 19th-century building on a street corner
  • Thursday, 6 March, 2025
    David Johnson
    A frenzy of overvaluations is undermining the property market

    With such inflated prices, vendors and buyers at all levels are left floundering. Why isn’t more property valued realistically from the start? 

    A grand white neoclassical mansion with multiple chimneys stands by a river, surrounded by trimmed lawns, trees, and a low chain fence along the water’s edge
  • Monday, 24 February, 2025
    Residential
    The Hampstead house that is an architectural time machine

    Built at the end of the 17th century, the home has many original and restored features that were popular in Queen Anne and Georgian design

    A three-storey brick house with evenly spaced sash windows and greenery in front
  • Tuesday, 18 February, 2025
    Inside a professional chef’s perfect home kitchen

    Zac Inwald and his partner Hilary Brett have created a space inspired by restaurants they work in — and the result is a sea of stainless steel with the cleverest of quirks

    A stainless steel kitchen surface with a tap and sink on the right, in the background a gas cooking hob with an oven to the left, a range of kitchen knives on a wall to the right of the cooker, herbs and spices on the wall to the left
  • Thursday, 13 February, 2025
    Hot property: five equestrian estates in England

    From a Berkshire stud farm near Newbury racecourse to a Grade II-listed house with views towards Dartmoor, a rider’s dream

    An aerial view of a countryside estate shows red-roofed brick buildings, stables, and fenced paddocks surrounded by green fields, dense trees, and rolling hills
  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2025
    Mews on: the premium of glamorous infamy and secret tranquillity

    Once the stuff of crime thrillers and haunts of secret agents, these storied homes tucked down cobblestone streets continue to have an idiosyncratic allure

    A charming cobblestone street lined with brick houses covered in green vines and colourful potted plants. Large windows, greenery, and bright sunlight create a cozy, serene atmosphere
  • Tuesday, 21 January, 2025
    Hot property: five homes in Brighton and Hove

    Sea air, quirky shops and an arty vibe: our selection includes a five-bedroom Regency-style town house and a beachfront house once owned by British playwright Terence Rattigan

  • Thursday, 16 January, 2025
    European prime property
    House-hunters in search of ‘the real Jersey’ are spoilt for choice

    The Channel Island’s low-tax appeal has long added to the glow of its more bucolic charms, but with UK fiscal changes agents are seeing an uptick in interest from would-be relocators. And the high-end properties are there for the buying

    A mix of traditional and modern architecture lines the waterfront. A variety of boats and yachts are docked in the marina, with many resting on the muddy seabed
  • Sunday, 29 December, 2024
    Prime property
    Hot property: five homes in Bath

    From a grand Regency town house of the type immortalised in Jane Austen novels, to a pretty stone cottage in a nearby village

    An aerial view of a crescent of pale stone georgian townhouses overlooking a green; beyond them are sweeping views of surrounding town, houses, gardens and countryside in the distance
  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    European prime property
    Hot property: five European castles

    From a baronial-style mansion in the Scottish Highlands with its own trout fishing loch to a Lake Como escape with guesthouse and limonaia

    an aerial view of a picturesque castle situated in the middle of a circular driveway, bordered by a manicured lawn
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    Super-prime London’s cut-price property deals

    The haggling is in full swing: with a near record number of unsold new homes and the wealthiest reconsidering their options, estate agents are sweaty palmed, but savvy buyers are scoring hefty discounts

    A stylized collage grand of Georgian or Victorian-style townhouses and a domed building, layered together in a dense arrangement. A ‘FOR SALE’ sign in red is placed near the bottom left. On the right side, a hand holding a smouldering cigar is superimposed
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    ‘It’s a bit Hackney-on-sea’: the evolving face of Deal

    Foodies and families are transforming the cultural landscape of the coastal Kent town once renowned for smugglers and pirates

    A row of pastel-coloured houses situated behind a pebble-covered area, possibly a beach or a stone embankment
  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    Hot property: quintessential English cottages

    From a traditional thatched cottage to a discreet London hideaway

    A thatched cottage nestled in trees, with a lawn at the front
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    Philip Harvey
    US realtors should grasp the importance of fee transparency

    Last year’s court ruling exposed the myriad issues in the property market. Now the new rules have been implemented, will the landscape change enough?

    A man and a woman, photographed from the back, walk up the steps to a blue house
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    FT SeriesHouse & Home City Living Special
    Thoroughly modern Mayfair

    The area’s remodelling has been a work in progress over the past decade — but new residential and retail developments are upping the ante as global demand is forecast to outstrip supply

    The exterior of 60 Curzon Street, a seven-storey white building
  • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
    Prime property
    Hot property: five former homes of artists for sale

    From photographer Rankin’s London penthouse to the Côte d’Azur villa designed by Eileen Gray where painter Graham Sutherland lived

    A historic-looking stone building with classical architectural features, including tall windows and a columned entrance, situated next to a road with parked cars. The property is adjacent to a terraced garden filled with various plants and shrubs
  • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
    Sophie Heawood
    I’m living the Primrose Hill dream. Err, what’s next? 

    Everyone has a fantasy of the place they’d like to live. But when you get there, can you ever stop wondering if this as good as it gets?

    A pastel-coloured row of houses in Primrose Hill, north London
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    Hot property: five homes in English national parks

    From an estate on the shore of Lake Windermere to a Grade I-listed medieval manor on Dartmoor

    a dark-coloured converted barn and thatched farmhouse set among grass and wildflowers
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