Generation rent: a secluded cottage that would defy trick-or-treaters
I’d love to see those smart-arses try their luck in this five-bed in LisburnIf someone visits me at home, they need to get through the main door to the building and the private door to the flat itself....
View ArticleGeneration rent: why I’ll never live in a microapartment
Owning a London studio is a fantasy, but that won’t stop me fawning over a microapartment“I’m a grown woman. I don’t have to justify how often I want to clean my sheets to anyone, do I?”“I’m sorry,...
View ArticleGeneration rent: why I’ll never live in a penthouse free of mice
Now, there are many animals living in my flat – mice. They scratch around in the walls, keeping us awakeThey say there’s a fine line between love and hate. There’s only a single letter between a pet...
View ArticleGeneration rent: why I’ll never live in a mansion with a kitchen swimming pool
Attracting a great flatmate would be much easier with a house like thisFlatmates are a wonderful thing. Find the right ones and you can have a friend, or proxy family, for life – there to share costs...
View ArticleCamelot mulls £10k-a-month-for life lottery prize to attract young
UK national lottery operator considers shift in focus to entice younger generation wanting to get on to housing ladder The national lottery operator, Camelot, is considering introducing a prize of up...
View ArticleGeneration rent: why I’ll never live on Britain’s (third) most expensive street
My worst nightmare is coming true: the neighbourhood is gentrifyingI come home to find a parcel on the kitchen table wrapped in parchment. “There goes the neighbourhood,” I mutter to myself, knowing...
View ArticleMillennials will have similar pensions to baby boomers, says report
Analysis by Resolution Foundation offers upbeat forecast of retirement prospects of young adults, though news for men in 40s is grimYoung adults will have retirement incomes similar to today’s...
View ArticleGeneration rent: why I’ll never live in a house with a panic room
Valued upwards of £625,000, no wonder this house includes hefty security. Perfect for protecting your most valued possessions and peopleI wake at 2am to a call from my BFF. “He’s in the kitchen now......
View ArticleGeneration rent: why I’ll never live in a place I can hang the washing
The five en-suite bathrooms are perfect for clothes horses, the decking area for outdoor dryingThere are good chores and bad chores. Washing-up: good. Cleaning fridge: bad. Watering plants: good....
View ArticleGeneration rent: why I’ll never live in a custom-designed barn conversion
In some homes, it is possible to stay warm without spending a fortuneWhen I wake up, the first thing I do is touch my nose. My face is the only part of my body left exposed throughout the night, and...
View ArticleAll the places I’ll never live: London’s most famous meeting point
If you’re a member of generation rent and can’t get home for Christmas, could a luxury flat be the answer?I didn’t spend last Christmas Day with my relatives. A nasty chest infection had spread through...
View ArticleGeneration rent: why I’ll never live in a place with a kitchen big enough for...
I can’t imagine anything less erotic than a sink-side seductionThere’s a cliched scene in Hollywood movies in which two people – usually a couple, but not always – succumb to their passions in the...
View ArticleMillennials set to reap huge rewards of inheritance boom
Thinktank: younger generation will profit from high value homes owned by baby boomer parents – but not till they are 60 An unprecedented inheritance boom is heading the way of today’s younger...
View ArticleGeneration rent: why I’ll never live in a place I can throw a fancy dinner party
The dining area here isn’t hidden away; it’s front and centre. So much so that it even once featured on Grand DesignsA few years ago, I made a resolution not to make New Year’s resolutions because a)...
View ArticleGeneration rent: why I’ll never live in the town I grew up in
For years I hated my neighbourhood and wanted to live in ‘proper London’, and now I can only dream of a house in DagenhamWhen I started this column, I thought, “Any month now, I’ll get on the property...
View ArticleYour guide to the most annoyingly successful people born this century
Peturbed by the gold-medal-winning snowboarders who are too young to buy a celebratory beer? They’re not even the tip of the upstart icebergFor people of a certain age – that is, born any time before 1...
View ArticleUK millennials second worst-hit financially in developed world, says study
Resolution Foundation says young Britons have suffered biggest reversal in fortunes save for young GreeksBritain’s millennial generation, born since 1981, have suffered a bigger reversal in financial...
View ArticleMillennials are conservative, cheap and could be the wisest generation
Having internalised lessons of the recession, young people can prove naysaying elders wrong by being smart with moneyCould millennials, still grappling with the fallout of the Great Recession, emerge...
View ArticleMatters of the heart and wallet: a Valentine's Day fact sheet
A look at the costs of searching for, finding and living with lovePoll: Is dating too expensive?Amount Americans are expected to spend on Valentine's Day this year: $17.3bnContinue reading...
View ArticleLooking for the one: can job-hopping ever lead to something serious? | Jana...
Millennials are masters of the gig economy, slapping together freelance gigs. But is that coming back to bite them? Job-hunting and being a perma-intern can both feel a lot like dating. Sifting through...
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