British developers scent profit in towns that last
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After decades putting up -- and tearing down -- hundreds of thousands of cheap identikit homes, Britain is planning a new wave of housebuilding with a major challenge: to produce communities that last.
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Investors are searching for a holy grail that symbolizes wealth in both profits and whatâs good for the environment.
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Cash-rich Ulster and Irish investors are sinking their money into commercial property both here and in other parts of the UK, according to a review of the market by property consultants BTWshiells.
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By Dawn Gagnon, Bangor Daily News, Maine  Feb. 10--BANGOR -- Cecelia and Robert Brown had long planned to sell their triangle-shaped property off the Gilman Road to a developer as a way to finance their golden years.
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IPSWICH -- With his ambitions to build homes around an award-winning golf course stalled and his financing depleted, a Boston developer is selling the unfinished project.
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POTTERS BAR, England At the end of a winding country road lined with hedgerows and tidy brick homes sits a new prefabricated building chock-full of monitors and filters.
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&quot;The Cheese Grater&quot; and &quot;The Walkie Talkie&quot; are among some of the vivid nicknames coined for a new wave of high-rises being built in the City of London financial district, symbols of the area&#39;s economic might.
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Britain's town and cities have become key survival safe havens for the country's endangered wildlife, according to a new survey published on Thursday.
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Real estate prices depend a lot on local conditions.
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Investors are now searching for a holy grail that symbolizes wealth in both profits and whatâs good for the environment.
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Study finds more than 1,000 small towns have an uncertain future as larger centres and the internet take business away.
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Britain's largest housebuilder Persimmon  reports record profits and says the housing market remains strong.
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Although most of the real estate industry wishes it could fast-forward through 2008, a few online start-ups are surviving nicely.
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WOBURN -- Few developers could build a commercial property empire of 74 debt-free office, industrial, retail, and research buildings valued at about $800 million. Even fewer would then give most of it away.
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A survey says first-time buyers cannot afford to get on the property ladder in most of the UK's towns. Are you affected?
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With its rolling hills, lakes and rivers, a rural retreat is attracting more and more buyers eager to escape city life.
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Life & style: Britain's design talent is relying on cheap prices and an influx of new buyers from China and India