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The best of House & Home

FT.com is free to read all day on Wednesday November 3. Here is a selection of our best features and columns, on topics that range from London’s super-prime property to the architecture of spite

Super-prime suspects: the game changers in London’s luxury property market
In 2010, the Candy brothers’ One Hyde Park became a byword for excess. But the tastes of today’s billionaires have evolved — and so has the market
Building homes for a heating planet
Few new dwellings are designed to cope with rising temperatures — could traditional architecture point us in the right direction?
Sanitation nation: how Covid created a home hygiene boom
The pandemic has been a marketer’s dream, giving rise to a panoply of products and gadgets. But how well do they work?
Return of the renters: price hikes, bidding wars and bribes
As cities relax pandemic restrictions and workers move back, competition for rented property is fierce
Why is it so hard to get rid of our books?
We are inordinately attached to these markers of ego and past selves. But in truth they can undermine — rather than underline — identity
Tenant buyouts: would you give up your home for $475,000?
Renters in San Francisco and New York have rare bargaining power to negotiate windfall sums for moving out

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