Piers Wehner

A woman who painted red and white stripes on her £5m Kensington town-house, has been revealed as a serial squabbler.

Mike Ashley, the founder of Sports Direct, is behind plans to build a £900m scheme near Chelsea’s King’s Road.

International clothing company Benetton has announced that it will contribute $1.1m (£700,000) to a fund to compensate victims of the Rana Plaza disaster.

China is making rapid progress on a new airstrip, built on reclaimed land round a reef in the South China Sea.

Fracking billionaire Jim Ratcliffe has caused uproar in the New Forest with plans to replace a corrugated tin beach hut with a £4m modernist house.

Pyongyang, the capital of the North Korean dictatorship, is experiencing a property bubble.

Residents and councillors in famed foodie-paradise Ludlow are attempting to scotch plans by Pizza Express to open a branch in the medieval town.

Mark Dixon has been given a nearly £1m pay rise, after increasing revenues at serviced office provider Regus by 15.8%.

Poundland has refused to sell 80 shops to address objections from the competition regulators over its takeover of 99p Stores.

Estate agents have come under attack from all sides, with a 42% increase in complaints.

The first ever five-year mortgage at less than 2% is set to start a price war among lenders.

Local authorities are being forced to pay private landlords up to £4,000 to house homeless families.