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UK prime property

  • 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
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    Hot property: five English conversions available to buy now

    From a penthouse in a former warehouse with panoramic views of London to an ex working men’s club that’s now a house with 5,000 sq ft of living space

    large sitting room with exposed brick
  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    Why more are making the great move north

    The south’s sky-high house prices and population pressures are prompting more UK professionals to relocate

    Line drawing of a car piled high with household belongings, including sofa, toilet and dog, and a sign pointing to the north
  • Wednesday, 26 June, 2024
    Albany, London’s island of old-world discretion

    These Georgian apartments on London’s Piccadilly are beloved for their very lack of glitz. Once home to Lord Byron and Greta Garbo, they are now sought after by a special kind of A-lister

  • Thursday, 20 June, 2024
    Hot property: five homes for sale in Somerset, England

    From a manor house where Radiohead recorded much of ‘OK Computer’ to a former Benedictine nunnery with a Corinthian fireplace and coat of arms

    an aerial view of a large, historic manor house set in a vast, well-manicured estate surrounded by rolling green countryside
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Follow the salmon: Scotland’s fishing ‘beats’ are prime real estate

    The ultimate property for a fly fisher is land with fishing rights along one of the country’s Big Four rivers

    a fisherman in a river casting his rod with hill and dramatic clouds in background
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    Real-world prices catch up with Chelsea’s houseboat community

    The bohemian London village on the river Thames, begun as emergency postwar housing, is having its values challenged

    houseboats on the river with a mix of buildings behind them
  • Thursday, 9 May, 2024
    The Norwich market has cooled but some homebuyers are warming to it

    The compact East Anglian city boasts walkability, quaintness, good schools and relative affordability

  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    Hot property: five riverside homes for sale in London

    From the former home of artist JMW Turner to a vast penthouse overlooking the Palace of Westminster

    A large living-dining area with a high vaulted ceiling and rooflights
  • Thursday, 18 April, 2024
    Hotspots turn not-spots as the rural housing market cools

    As the work-from-home bubble bursts, Londoners who bought out of town during the pandemic are finding selling up a slow business

    a lovely country home with trees, flowers and a stream
  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    Hot property: five homes for sale in the Peak District, England

    From a characterful Victorian house in the spa town of Buxton to a Grade II-listed house with an orangery overlooking the hills

  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    FT Series
    House & Home Countryside Living Special

    What does it take to leave a high-flying city life to resurrect your family’s rural estate? We spoke to three couples who’ve made the leap. We also explore the allure of rural Mallorca for homebuyers, ask why pre-civil war barns are big business in the US, and more.

  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    FT SeriesHouse & Home Countryside Living Special
    Call of the countryside: the pleasures (and pressures) of a return to the family home

    What does it take to leave a high-flying city life to resurrect a historic estate and make it sustainable, all the while cohabiting with your in-laws? Three families tell their story

    Borde Hill, a 16th-century family estate in West Sussexj
  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2024
    Hot property: five homes for sale in Pembrokeshire

    From a former B&B with 10 bedrooms to a Georgian terrace with clifftop garden and sea views

    An imposing terrace of brightly coloured houses on a grassy cliff overlooking a sandy beach
  • Thursday, 14 March, 2024
    Residential property
    Notting Hill’s grandeur (and a touch of grunge) keeps homebuyers coming

    Perennial attractions include the London area’s stuccoed town houses and garden squares and the authenticity of the street market and carnival

    Generously proportioned houses
  • Wednesday, 6 March, 2024
    Hot property: five homes for sale in Poole, Dorset

    From a house with a garden by a Chelsea Flower Show medal winner to a five-storey town house in the Georgian Old Town

  • Thursday, 29 February, 2024
    Hot property: five homes for sale in Essex villages

    From a 16th-century house with a party barn and art studio to a Grade II*-listed manor with a Humphry Repton-designed garden

    Country house
  • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
    Everything about Cambridge is booming — except housing supply

    The population has been rising as jobs in biotech and pharma proliferate but the city struggles to build enough homes

    Punting on the river Cam in Cambridge
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    House & Home
    Is the UK housing market really in recovery?

    Falling mortgage rates and an uptick in agreed sales offer encouragement. But economic risks remain

    A tinted image of a street of detached Edwardian family homes with bay wondows, front gardens and driveways
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    Chichester homebuyers pay double the price for life by the water

    The southern English city’s expanses of undeveloped coastline are a haven for boaters and birdwatchers, often from London

  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    Why London homebuyers are still looking to Stamford

    The exodus from the capital has slowed since the pandemic — but the Lincolnshire town John Betjeman called ‘England’s most attractive’ is still a draw

  • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
    Why are sales dragging in swanky Knightsbridge?

    A lack of new-build luxury homes in the exclusive London area is causing wealthy buyers to opt for elsewhere or rent

  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
    Hot property: five homes for sale in Edinburgh

    From a gracious Georgian town house to a city-centre apartment and a property handy for golf and rugby

    A reception room in a Georgian house with full-height sash windows on two sides, a chandelier, wooden floors and stylish mix of period and moden furniture
  • Wednesday, 27 December, 2023
    Property sales slow but intrepid commuters are chuffed with Cheltenham

    Hybrid workers in London have a long journey but love its Regency architecture, literary festivals — and excellent schools

    handsome yellow stone shops on a quaint high street
  • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
    Buyers are drawn to Walthamstow, where East End meets high end

    Relative affordability, transport links and a bustling boho culture are attractions for young professionals, despite a difficult market

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