‘This is the Everest of zero carbon’ – inside York’s green home revolution

The city plans to build Britain’s biggest zero-carbon housing project, boasting 600 homes in car-free cycling paradises full of fruit trees and allotments. When will the rest of the UK catch up?

Welcome to Manc-hattan: how the city sold its soul for luxury skyscrapers

Giant towers are sprouting up all over Manchester. But how will sky lounges and penthouse olive groves help the city’s rocketing homelessness problem?

Balfron 2.0: how Goldfinger’s utopian tower became luxury flats

The selloff of Erno Goldfinger’s landmark building in Poplar is a central element of a new plan to transform London’s East End

Buyer beware: Amsterdam seeks to ban buy-to-let on newbuild homes

London and others will be watching closely as Dutch city tries to tackle housing shortage

‘It’s an insult’: Chinese property developers race to the top of London’s skyline

Giant luxury towers (with their own karaoke rooms) to spring up around the city as eastern investors look to Britain. But residents fear deals will force them out

‘No social housing’ boasts luxury London flat advert for foreign investors

Marketing material aimed at foreign investors provokes anger in one of London’s most deprived areas with thousands on social housing waiting lists