1 hour ago Housing emergency: Lack of progress on Scottish build to rent ‘alarming’ as UK powers ahead

“Unfortunately, investors have tagged Scotland with a risk premium due to concerns about future legislative and tax changes” – John Boyle, Rettie

Events

4 hours ago Berkeley Square apartment at site of Winston Churchill's first London home goes on market for £6.5 million

The 1,859 sq ft apartment is on the third floor of the Portland stone town house, the only surviving residential building on one of London’s most famous squares.

Economics

7 hours ago Lord Byron museum to open in Italian building where poet had intense affair

Visitors will be able to explore Palazzo Guiccioli in Ravenna, where Byron romanced its aristocrat owner’s wifeA museum dedicated to the flamboyant British poet and satirist Lord Byron is due to open in the northern Italian city of Ravenna, housed in the same building where he pursued an intense affair with the wife of an aristocrat and completed some of his most famous works.Byron unabashedly moved in 1819 into Palazzo Guiccioli, owned by the husband of Countess Teresa Guiccioli, whom he met at a party in Venice. Continue reading...

Politics

20 hours ago 'Every town should have one': Jay Rayner raves over small restaurant in refurbished Rochdale Town Hall

The well-known critic praised the 'civic pride' and 'glorious cooking'

Politics

23 hours ago Locals outraged by council's 'dreadful' plan to build 17,000 newbuild homes in the Essex countryside

EXCLUSIVE: Locals (pictured) are fuming at Basildon Council's plans to build thousands of houses on green belt land around them.

Politics

25 hours ago Plan for six apartments as part of Cloud 9 development after bulldozing 100

New building will 'address Trafford's acute and persistent housing supply shortfall'

Politics