Taste for champagne falls flat as half of Britons put £10 cap on fizz
Prosecco and cava popularity still bubbling up as austerity leaves buyers unwilling to splash out on luxury French product
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Empty homes council tax rise unlikely to deter rich owners, say critics
Hammond’s 100% extra tax on vacant property dismissed as ‘joke’ unlikely to hit wealthy buyers or spur re-use of housing
V&A futuristic exhibition: from a drone to clean oil spills to a towel-folding robot
Museum plans 2018 exhibition, called The Future Starts Here, exploring how groundbreaking technologies could change the world
Monaco builds into the Med to house new throng of super-rich
The tax haven has a luxury housing crisis – it doesn’t have enough land for the 2,700 multimillionaires forecast to settle there over the next decade
Tesla Roadster: nine things we know about the ‘smackdown to gasoline cars’
New electric supercar will break records according to Elon Musk, with blistering acceleration and 630-mile range. Here’s everything we know
Pirelli goes down the rabbit hole with all-black cast for 2018 calendar
Styled by new Vogue editor Edward Enninful, next year’s calendar stars Naomi Campbell, Duckie Thot and others to tell the story of Alice in Wonderland