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Most people in the UK are hoping to hear that the current stamp duty holiday will be extended by Chancellor Rishi Sunak in next week’s budget, according to recent research. The reduction in the rate...

The UK’s first homes with household appliances fuelled entirely by hydrogen are set to be completed by April. The two semi-detached properties, funded with the help of the UK government’s Hy4Heat...

Future-proofing a home for later in life is something architects are often asked to consider when working on designs for new builds, renovations, conversions or extensions. Indeed, here at Howie Architects...

Leading industry figures are becoming more vocal in their call to the government to extend the stamp duty holiday. With seven weeks to go until the tax break ends, there has been growing pressure on Chancellor...

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has won the design competition to build a multi-dimensional vertical “city” of two towers in Shenzhen, China. Tower C will sit within the business and financial...

The past year has seen lifestyle changes for all of us and for many this has meant exercising, as well as working and schooling our children, from home. Across the country, people have certainly been...

Detached homes saw the biggest price increases of all home types in the UK last year, according to research by property portal OpenBrix. Following the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and the first national...

Rightmove has recorded its busiest ever start to a new year, with visits to the site up 30 per cent on the same time period in 2020. There are very early signs of activity continuing to grow during lockdown,...

The new year has started and once again despite our best hopes we all find ourselves back in another lockdown situation. There is light at the end of the Covid-19 tunnel, but we are all too aware there...

With more people now working from home, and with the recent extensions to permitted development rights, we are increasingly being asked about garden studios. These can, of course, take many different forms,...

National average house prices will grow by a robust four per cent in 2021, according to Rightmove. There is strong evidence that people will continue to have their reprioritised housing needs high on their...

With the year drawing to a close and many of us hoping for better times ahead we might be gently starting to think about changes we might make to our homes in 2021. Some of us may be planning major projects:...