Fighting Fit

The show flats must go on

These contemporary new-build developments are great – shame nobody wants to buy them any more

How to build your own home

Will falling land prices encourage a self-build boom?

Builder faces jail for lying about his skills

Martin Gumbrell failed to complete two projects after taking £417,000 but clients spent another £450,000 to finish the work

Eco-town plan sites fail to meet targets

Gordon Brown’s eco-town programme falters with only one of 12 shortlisted sites meeting the Government’s criteria

Call me shallow, but I love it

It’s in the heart of Cheshire’s Wag country, but who cares if you can live in this kind of luxury?

Edgewood Homes: defying the downturn

Bespoke luxury meets practicality in prefab homes that are easy on the eye and the environment

Green and pleasant eco-homes

The sales pitch is preachy, but these jaunty eco-homes are (almost) fun enough to convert this cynic

The Wall Hall country house development

Once home to financier JP Morgan Jr, this mansion has been divided into flats. Does it add up?

New housing in the Islington City Basin

A new development on Regent's Canal looks set to enliven the eastern section of the North London waterway

More than 3m homes needed before 2020

Target of three million new homes is not enough to meet the growth in number of elderly and young families, says report

Luxury living in Bayswater

A sumptuous new development in Bayswater takes high-tech luxury to a different level

New housing developments in Southwest London

This part of London may be in the doldurums for now but there is plenty of optimism about the future

Church conversions

Few church conversions warrant eulogies, but this gloomy west London flat is beyond salvation

Is this the end of housing developers offering incentives?

A new crackdown may stop developers luring buyers with juicy freebies

House of worship

Glasgow flats remodelled from a church have fine city views

Radical architecture in the Chilterns

Developers cut price of new homes by up to 40%

Housebuilders are throwing in a range of incentives in a desperate bid to lure buyers

Glass house joins Karl Marx in Highgate Cemetery

This cutting-edge glass-and-concrete home is for sale inside the walls of London's most famous graveyard

Germany unveils its garage in the sky

A team of Berlin architects have designed the ultimate living space for those that love their car: the drive-in apartment

The adult-only housing development in Berkshire

Daisy Waugh views Swallowfield Park, a home without children