Winning the uber jackpot. 5 things to buy from an investment perspective

Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once – Paulo Coelho – What would you buy if you won the lottery? What to do after winning a hyper jackpot? This fantasy exercise is always really amusing, conjuring images of … Read more

Damien Hirst’s Newport Street Gallery is a grown-up gem that shows he’s sobered with age

Caruso St John architects have conjured an immaculate new home for the art prankster’s collection in an unlikely south London setting – and there’s not a diamond skull or formaldehyde animal in sight

Upper crust: buyers pay up to £5.5m for apartments with pizza lifts

Four luxury flats on the Strand sold for between £3m and £5.5m, with all mod cons including butler’s lift from restaurant next door

Britain’s super-rich cash in on low interest rates with £1m mortgages

Number of £1m-plus mortgages granted to lenders has risen by a fifth, with private banks main funders of central London trophy properties

Meet the Turner prize shortlist, from the musician to the mind-reader

Architecture, opera, fashion, parapsychology … this year’s contenders are taking contemporary art into exciting new territory. We sent our experts to meet the artists on the shortlist

London’s highest botanical gin garden goes on sale

Luxury Wardian towers feature ‘sky gardens’, private gym, swimming pool and cinema – and a studio flat could be yours for just £395,000