For some reason or other, Bob Scott – a business head with one hand in Olympic bidding and the other in amateur dramatics – had taken a keen interest in those two wildly-opposed buildings that still flank Manchester’s Oxford Road Station.

Vudafieri-Saverino Partners have transformed a 15th-century structure from palatial family home to boutique art hotel.

Grand Hotel Bellevue opens in London: a 60-key boutique hotel and first British property by French group Lignée Hotels.

Whether you live in an EPC Zed-rated two-up two-down in the suburbs, or a Piccadilly-perimetering pigeonhole, it’s fair to say the UK property market leaves a lot of be desired.

The story of JUMBO Floating Restaurant, one of Hong Kong’s most recognisable landmarks, starts with casino monopolist Stanley Ho, who invested some thirty million HK smackeroons into its construction back in 1976.

Renting an unaffordable hovel in an up ‘n’ coming neighbourhood is hardly a new concept, but have you ever wondered how this method of dwelling became so vogue?

After over 90 years of burning rubber, a greased-up bright spark of the Pirelli’s UK subsidiary by the name of Derek Forsyth decided that some brand merch was in order; what better way to push sales than a dozen bare-bottomed ladies posing aside a paper planner of the forthcoming year?