Most people seeking a home in the sun will have Portugal’s Algarve and Spain’s Costa del Sol in their sights. So which one is better value? JANE SLADE investigates Comparing these two European destinations they would seem to be similar – each has a Roman and...
JANE SLADE discovers that you don’t have to retire to live in a retirement community, working retirees are welcome too Although he gave up his full-time job 15 years ago, Michael Jackson (pictured above) missed the daily routine – and at the age of 75 still heads off...
Now is the time to start preparing your holiday home for the summer season says JANE SLADE For those of us not lucky enough to have a management company to look after our holiday properties, expert concierge Nicole Remus advises on what we should do to get homes ready...
JANE SLADE discovers that straw houses make ideal affordable homes for retirees Paul Chatterton, a geography lecturer at Leeds University, spent a lifetime pondering how to make housing sustainable and affordable before setting up the 20-home Lilac co-housing project...
Living surrounded by a walker’s paradise – 376 acres of National Trust parkland – makes Cliveden Village the ideal choice for a retirement property says JANE SLADE With over 110,000 members of the Ramblers Association across Great...
A Cotswolds house builder has invited residents to take part in a community project to discover ‘wildlife treasures’ on their doorstep Cotswold Homes Ltd, whose Wildwood development of detached houses in Mangotsfield, South Gloucestershire is nearing completion, is...
