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  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
    FT Series
    Waterside living special

    From flood-risk design solutions to the future of Venice, FT writers look at the lure of homes on beaches, rivers and canals

  • Friday, 26 February, 2021
    FT SeriesWaterside living special
    Can Venice reinvent itself?

    With the tourists gone, residents are being lured back to the city by falling rental prices

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
    Rome reimagined: prices fall in the centre as locals seek more space

    The pandemic has caused visitors to stay away too, pushing rentals and sales down

  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
    Frankfurt’s housing prices rise despite the pandemic

    As the city continues its drive to become Europe’s financial capital, property is increasingly unaffordable

  • Friday, 18 December, 2020
    The discreet charm of Gstaad’s luxury property market

    The Swiss mountain town offers serene skiing, low taxes and privacy around the vertiginous prices

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    Expats return to Dublin to find a transformed property market

    Record numbers are arriving in the Irish capital — but they face a shortage of housing

  • Friday, 27 November, 2020
    Foreign buyers push up prime sales in Milan

    The city’s cosmopolitan feel attracts overseas buyers but locals are being priced out

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    Special ReportFT Wealth: December 2020
    A haven from the storm: pandemic has only increased Monaco’s attractions

    ‘People are coming here and seeing it as a refuge, for security’

  • Friday, 6 November, 2020
    Ski property special
    ‘Just the snow, the mountains and us’: a father and daughter tale

    The FT’s Joe Russ and his daughter Vicki have skied in the Alps every year for 24 years — is it time to buy a property?

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  • Thursday, 29 October, 2020
    Covid-19 causes a split in Marbella’s holiday home market

    While mainstream sales are slowing, wealthy buyers are drawn to the resort’s luxury developments   

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
    The Swedish exception and the effect on house sales

    The no-lockdown approach has boosted Stockholm’s market — yet a slowdown could be on the way

  • Friday, 16 October, 2020
    Demand for Geneva’s high-end homes is rising despite the pandemic

    Buyers are attracted by low interest rates and a less severe coronavirus fallout

  • Thursday, 15 October, 2020
    How To Spend It
    The hottest properties on the market

    From lakeside Swiss retreats to London living worthy of an action hero

  • Friday, 2 October, 2020
    Hot property: Italy’s Ligurian coast

    From a modern eco-friendly house to a Liberty-style villa

  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
    Hot Property: Provence toujours

    From a bastide with a greenhouse to a château with a vineyard

  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
    Architecture
    The gaudy, joyful palaces of the Roma

    The homes built by this Romanian minority are a reaction to centuries of stigma and oppression

  • Thursday, 10 September, 2020
    Paris housing: the city of light emerges from the shadow of Covid

    After a severe lockdown, buyers are looking for more space, more outdoor access and more comfort

  • Thursday, 27 August, 2020
    Lisbon’s holiday-let landlords hit by drop in tourist numbers

    Streets are quiet as the city emerges from lockdown, but across Portugal, there has been a record rise in ‘golden visa’ applicants

  • Friday, 14 August, 2020
    Property
    Have you been mis-sold a timeshare?

    FT Money would like to speak to readers having issues with holiday properties

  • Friday, 14 August, 2020
    Bid for Madrid — the rise of luxury residences

    Developers hope to revitalise faded parts of the city but coronavirus travel disruption makes it a gamble

  • Friday, 7 August, 2020
    Last call for Europe — meet the Brits buying homes before Brexit bites

    Residency will become more complicated for Britons when the rules change on January 1

  • Friday, 24 July, 2020
    The German housing-market exception

    Sales stalled elsewhere during the pandemic but here high demand and high prices continue unabated

  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
    Architecture
    Inside Casa Malaparte: Capri’s house of paradoxes

    The villa, a cocktail of the real and the imagined, is the subject of a new exhibition

  • Friday, 19 June, 2020
    What next for the French Riviera property market?

    Since lockdown, buyers have been looking in quiet areas rather than glamorous hotspots

  • Friday, 22 May, 2020
    Paradise Ireland: luxury country estates at a discount

    While Covid-19 keeps foreign buyers hesitating, hopes rest on Ireland’s wealthy

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