The local rag has a tale of yet another exciting high-rise development for these parts: "The tall tower will contain 25,000 square metres of grade A office space and 360 apartments. Residents of all the apartments will have access to balconies or to two winter gardens".All very blah blah. But here's the 'why don't I just stick to pounding nails into the floor with my forehead' ...

Downing Street backs cabinet members who have claimed second home allowance while living in grace-and-favour apartments and renting out property in London Downing Street today defended the right of cabinet ministers living in grace-and-favour apartments to claim a parliamentary allowance for a second home. The prime minister's spokesman spoke out as Margaret Beckett joined the list of ministe...

Have we overdone it with city centre flats? Or apartments as they are often called in the sales literature. Arrive at almost any railway station - from Norwich to Nottingham - and you can't help but be struck by how...

Fully Furnished Apartments For Rent in Ulaanbaatar 2 bedrooms, 3rd floor, 115m2, Located Next to Continental Hotel , $1000/mo Fascinating stuff, eh?

One Park Slope food co-op member said a man in her block of apartments had stopped shaving until victory day; his beard was already long and bushy. Elsewhere across the liberal heartlands, a woman from Denver was reported to have...

Ken Clarke, the new Lord Chancellor, has chosen not to make use of the opulent Westminster apartments that come with the post.

In the capital of the former workers' state, the first old factory building to be converted into apartments is an icon of Russia's transition to capitalism.

What a coincidentally apt place the great City of Manchester is for this year’s Party Conference. We know the City today for its regeneration, glut of apartments, nearby Coronation Street, and a vague notion of an industrial glory built upon...

China’s edifice complex goes back to basics. When I saw this picture of Wuhan’s latest skyscraper, my first thought was: Jesus, why don’t they just build a steel and glass foreskin round the top and market it as executive apartments....

Right Democrat has some information on the Employee Free Choice Act from Catholics for Working Families: America’s working people are struggling to make ends meet, CEOs have all the power and our middle class is disappearing. The best opportunity for working men and women to get ahead is by uniting with co-workers to bargain with their employers for better wages and benefits. But the current lab...